Sentences with phrase «on african american»

Resilience effects of a family - based preventive intervention on African American emerging adults

Ge and colleagues, for instance, found that early maturation is linked to internalizing symptoms among African American adolescents residing in rural and suburban neighborhoods (Ge et al. 2001, 2003, 2006) and have called for additional research on African American adolescents living in urban environments.

Following her undergraduate graduation, Aleja spent a year volunteering in Senegal which inspired her future goals to apply a global perspective to the advancement of research on African American couples.

This has spawned efforts, including the work published in 2009 by the Institute for American Values and the National Center on African American Marriages and Parenting, to develop a multi-factored «index» of marital well - being in the United States.

Examination of the impact of socioeconomic status risk on African American youth.

The influence of neighborhood disadvantage, collective socialization, and parenting on African American children's affiliation with deviant peers.

TEACHING / PRESENTATION HISTORY Graduate Assistant — Texas Woman's University 2010 to Present Theories of the Family, Family Public Policy, Family Sexuality, Family Change and Diversity Guest Lecturer — Mountainview College Spring 2010 Guest Lecturer, Black Family Course Instructor — Axia College (Online) Fall / Winter 2007 Psychology Instructor — North Central Texas College Fall 2007 Graduate / Research Assistant — Texas Southern University Spring 2005 Presentations: 2010 Ohio Early Care and Education Conference, Columbus, OH April 2010 Pretend Play & African American Families: Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) Educational First Steps Annual Conference, Dallas, TX Feb. 2010 Learning While Bonding (requested workshop) National Black Child Development Institute, Atlanta, GA April 2009 Strengthening Black Families Through Play (workshop) Collin College Educators Symposium, Plano, TX April 2009 Share My World: Play and African American Children (workshop) Texas Woman's University Student Research Symposium, Denton, TX April 2009 The Impact of Adolescence on African American Parent - Daughter Relations (poster presentation) Collegium for African American Research, Bremen, Germany (paper presentation) March 2009 The 20th Century Social Scientist and the African in America: Implications for 21st Century Research Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX (workshop) April 2009 Beyond, Me, Myself, and I: Impact of Early Adolescence on Females» Interpersonal Relationships Pearls and Ivy Annual Healthy Relationship Forum, Plano, TX Jan. 2008 Maintaining Healthy Relationships and Recognizing Unhealthy Relationships (workshop) The Health Group, Houston, TX Feb. 2005 Recognizing Depression in Yourself and Others (workshop)

The Association has an intentionally broad mission that focuses both on the African American legal community and on issues like education, equality, and empowerment that are important across all sectors of our community.

The cases involved allegations that a school resource officer (employed by the City of Kankakee) used his taser on African American students.

Well, there are even more polls coming out showing that Americans are still strongly in favor of jump starting the transition to a clean energy economy — the most recent two focus on African American and Latino voters.

While at the Studio Museum, she has organized and co-organized exhibitions including Alma Thomas (2016; forthcoming); Ebony G. Patterson:... when they grow up... (2016; forthcoming); Stanley Whitney: Dance the Orange (2015); Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art (2014 -15); Carrie Mae Weems: The Museum Series (2014); Fred Wilson: Local Color (2013); Fore (2012); Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 (2012); The Bearden Project (2011 - 12); Spiral: Perspectives on an African American Art Collective (2011); Sculpted, Etched and Cut: Metal Works from the Permanent Collection (2011); Inside the Collection: Interiors from the Studio Museum (2010); and A Delicate Touch (2009).

His articles and essays on African American art have appeared in major publications throughout the world.

Instead he hired Robert Doty, who declined to consult an expert on African American art and culture.

Working with the Russian modernist sculptor Opal Zadkine, Catlett further elaborated her characteristic approach: an on - going engagement with formal experimentation within the context of an enduring focus on African American womanhood.

Works on view by Asante — once described by Maya Angelou as «visualizing the truth about the vulnerability and power of the human being» — serve as contemplations on African American experience, visualized in color monotypes that appropriate vintage photographs.

She is interested in representation — particularly in the manner in which African American artists have portrayed their culture — and has developed a lecture series on African American artists and religion.

Buick has published extensively on African American art.

Married collectors Pamela Joyner and Fred Giuffrida have also built a collection focused on African American abstract art.

This is a curatorial department and resource centre that pursues acquisitions, organizes special exhibitions, lectures, symposia and workshops on African American arts.

The Brooklyn - based photographer's work combines words and images to reflect on African American and familial history.

Her work focuses on African American culture and the ongoing struggles for equality and international human rights.

I am looking forward to helping to mark the milestone with a conversation about non-traditional roles and new perspectives on African American art.

So when The Studio Museum in Harlem, which focuses on African American artists, proposed a retrospective to Charles in 2014, he was thrilled.

While Edward Hopper, Thomas Hart Benton, and Reginald Marsh became much more famous than Motley for their American scenes, he also developed and elucidated his own archetypes of place and people in this country, albeit unapologetically based on African American subject matter.

In complement to Magnetic Fields: Expanding Abstraction 1960s to the Present, which focuses on African American women's approaches to abstract painting and sculpture, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg is thrilled to be working with composer Elizabeth A. Baker to present an afternoon of abstract sonic experiences by African...

MAM Chief Curator Gail Stavitsky has steadily built up the Museum's historical collection over many years, with special emphasis on African American and women artists.

Gay has exhibited her work at prestigious venues and events including the Chattanooga African American Museum, the Hammonds House Museum, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Emory University, Mason Murer, and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

Rebecca Peabody, who is head of research programs and projects at the Getty Research Institute, and studies representations of race, gender and ethnicity in 20th century art says that white artists who take on African American identities are doing so under the shadow of some problematic historical antecedents.

Edward Kienholz's life - size tableau «Five Car Stud» (1969 — 72) depicts four automobiles and a pickup truck, arranged on a dirt floor in a dark room with their headlights illuminating a shocking scene: a group of white men exacting their gruesome «punishment» on an African American man.

SYMPOSIUM Annual Jame A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art at Howard University is held April 5 - 9, featuring a conversation with Dawoud Bey, presentation by Sadie Barnette, lectures by Lorna Simpson and art historian Cheryl Finley, and a keynote by Fred Wilson.

The historian and curator of African American collections at Emory University presents new multimedia work reflecting on African American male identity throughout American history.

In a way, what we did was cheat - to focus on African American abstraction narrows the field for us.

Given that her work is based on an African American experience, because she uses archives, the woman wondered was she ever tempted to «look into other cultures»?

We are starting to increase now,» she said, referring to the company's focus on African American art products.

Meko states his «recent paintings and sculptures focus on the African American experience of navigating public spaces while remaining buoyant within them» CT

Focusing primarily on African American artists in and out of the Black Arts Movement, the exhibition features approximately 100 objects assembled from the Smart Museum's collection and other public and private collections, including art and ephemera associated with the Wall of Respect, Black Creativity, the Civil Rights Movement, AfriCOBRA, Afrofuturism, the Hairy Who, and the radical sounds of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

Through the exhibition Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964 — 1980 (2006)-- which highlighted numerous black artists working in abstract painting or sculpture — and her scholarly work on African American conceptualists, Jones has prompted a reevaluation of the view that African American art of the period was predominantly figurative or representational.

Complementing this work, Library of Black Lies (2016) is a large - scale sculpture and labyrinth containing a collection of crystallized books — from dictionaries, to encyclopedias, to novels — presenting variants on African American history.

Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Ethel Waters and others whose careers began early in the 20th century will be the basis of a conversation about the direct impact of slavery and the Civil War on African American performance culture.

For their concurrent solo exhibitions at the Museum of the African Diaspora, Los Angeles based artists Alison Saar and Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle focus on the African American, and African, woman's body as a carrier of profound stories to create narratives that provoke awareness and revere both the beautiful and ugly sides of history.

The formation of an art gallery focusing on African American art and artists in Greensboro evolved from a long standing dream of Greensboro resident and nationally acclaimed artist - educator the late Eva Hamlin Miller.

Seven years ago, when Swann began focusing on African American art, few, if any, of the artists were featured contemporaneously in exhibitions.

And Otis has had a storied impact on African American artists in their early development.

Cooks» research focuses on African American artists, Black visual culture, museum criticism, feminist theory, and post-colonial theory.

Richly illustrated and written with resounding empathy and pride, this is a major contribution to the literature on African American history and to the annals of American art.

Dr. Kellie Jones, an authority on African American and African Diaspora artists, is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.

With a particular focus on the African American art scene on the South Side of Chicago, this group exhibition explores the connection between avant - garde jazz and experimental music of the late 1960s and contemporary art and culture.

His writings on African American artists helped solidify the education and history of many of these artists before they were forgotten.

After 16 sales, in your observation, what affect have Swann auctions had on the African American art market?

Works by Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988), Lonnie Holley, Hank Willis Thomas, and William Pope.L, were grouped together in a meditation on African American's experiences: rituals of rural life, fear of violence, the corporate athletic body, and socio - political struggle.