Sentences with phrase «advocated for black artists»

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In 1969, he became a founding member of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), which formed coalitions with other artists» groups, protested the exclusion of women and men of color from institutional and historical canons, and advocated for greater representation of black artists, curators, and intellectuals within major musBlack Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), which formed coalitions with other artists» groups, protested the exclusion of women and men of color from institutional and historical canons, and advocated for greater representation of black artists, curators, and intellectuals within major musblack artists, curators, and intellectuals within major museums.

La Keisha Leek is a Chicago - based arts administrator, curator, and arts advocate interested in creating platforms for emerging Black and Brown artists.

From Black, White and Grey, the first museum exhibition of Minimalist art; to publishing limited edition silkscreen portfolios of work by major contemporary artists in the 1960s; to advocating for Earth art that manipulates the natural landscape; Wagstaff was a trailblazer and an influential tastemaker in contemporary art.

Especially for a black artist making work that did not directly engage with the profoundly consequential social and political movements of the late»60s, finding advocates to champion his practice was difficult.