Sentences with phrase «support for black artists»

«Working with artists at the beginning of their careers is wonderful,» says Jenkins - Johnson, who recently pledged $ 50,000 to the emerging artist program at San Francisco's Museum of African Diaspora in a separate show of support for black artists.

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Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two - part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.

Strontium is temporarily deinstalled to support 2016 — 2017 exhibition activities.German artist Gerhard Richter has created Strontium, a large - scale mural for the new de Young derived from digitally - manipulated photographs, that together form a geometric black and white motif representing the atomic... View More

The 1951 three - panel White Painting is believed to have been painted over almost immediately as Untitled [matte black triptych](ca. 1951, fig. 2).6 In fact, there is no exhibition history or any other evidence to indicate that White Painting [three panel] was extant between 1951 and 1968; 7 in those years, most of the original White Paintings had slipped out of existence, their canvases used as the supports for other pieces.8 Though artists throughout history have created new works on used canvases, Rauschenberg did so with an unusual frequency and ease, particularly in the early 1950s.9 Looking back at that period some ten years later, he commented, «Today I wouldn't do that....

To support visiting artist travel and honoraria for «The New Black Cinema,» a public symposium series focused on works by African - American and African Diaspora filmmakers.

Kuffner and his various projects have notably received grants, in - kind support and awards from: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in association with the Clocktower Gallery, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, The Experimental Television Center, The New York Council for the Arts, Ableton Gmhb, The CEC Artslink, Scope Arts, Artist Wanted, Techshop, The New Orleans Airlift, The Indonesian Foreign Ministry, The Dharmasiswa Scholarship, The Berlin Arts Council, The European Commission, I - D Media Berlin, Schloss Brollin Art Labor, The Black Rocks Arts Foundation, The James F. Robison Foundation, The Soros Foundation, Swiss Air, The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and The US Artists International partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Support for the ongoing performance and archiving work of this Black, Brown and Indigenous women artist collective.

Lending support to predominantly African American visual artists in an era when major visibility or opportunities for these artists were rare, the Brockman Gallery played a significant role in supporting and documenting the contributions of black American artists in Los Angeles and beyond, playing a vital part in the city's history.

More than 800 people, including prominent artists and cultural figures — Kevin Beasley, Hannah Black, Heather Hart, Juliana Huxtable, Thomas J. Lax, Glenn Ligon, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms, and Sarah Workneh, among them — have signed a petition expressing their support for the parole of Herman Bell, a former member of the Black Liberation Army, an offshoot of the Black Panthers.

This limited edition photographic print features an upside - down female gymnast balancing on one of the artist's signature black metal stands, which usually act as support for her sculptures.

The first black President and First Lady continued their groundbreaking support of the arts by choosing African American artists for the official commissions, a first for such portraits at the Smithsonian museum.

Throughout, stark black arteries suggest strength, support and stability — a psychological anchor, perhaps, for the trauma of the artist's forced migration from his native Burundi.

Now celebrating 50 years of its place as the home for artists of African descent as well as work inspired and influenced by black culture, the Studio Museum (headed by @thelmagolden) is ensuring that it will continue to support excellence in artistry well into the 21st century.

But Julien, for instance, does not deal with race in the same direct and open way that Jafa does, which begs the question of whether this is the only way that Black artists in Europe can get support from big institutions — by steering clear of race.

Among its notable acquisitions of the past year were a ca. 1600 oil on canvas, St. Francis Supported by an Angel, by Italian artist Orazio Gentileschi, purchased from the Richard L. Feigen & Co. gallery in New York, an 1870s — 80s Japanese scroll with an ink drawing of a courtesan purchased from Christie's and a 2009 two - dimensional mixed - media work by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, Black River, purchased from the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria.