Sentences with phrase «such cultural activists»

Founded in 1941 through the efforts of such cultural activists as Margaret Burroughs, the South Side Community Art Center played a key role in nurturing the careers of postwar black artists like Eldzier Cortor, Marion Perkins, and Archibald Motley Jr..

Not exact matches

Together, their works introduce numerous critical, political, aesthetic, and material threads that run throughout the exhibition, in works such as Stan Douglas» compelling six - hour meander into an Afrobeat jam session in Luanda - Kinsasha (2013), the late Kwakwaka» wakw artist, activist and hereditary Chief Beau Dick's celebrated performative masks, Nick Cave's enchanting Sound Suit (2015), borne from the horrors of racialized violence, to Latifa Echakhch's sculptures and paintings that reconcile personal narratives against broader cultural or nationalistic norms and expectations.