ESSAYS

ESSAYS ON AFRICAN AMERICAN ART

Re-Seeing and Giving Voice to African Americans

My mixed media art with African Americans’ images from the 1700s to the early 1960s are created with positive images of Black women, men, and children that counter the negative stereotypical images that were dominant during the 1700s to the early 1960s.

Black Americana circa. 1700s to Early 1960s

These images are just a few of the African American stereotypes
which large portions of the U.S.'s dominant culture accepted as truth.


My mixed media art with women’s and children’s images, who are not African American, are from the 1700s to 1960s, and they, too, give voice to voiceless in such away that these images are likely to make statements that they could not have made publicly during the 1700s to the early 1960s.
Re-Seeing and Giving Voice to Women and Children


"Women and children should be seen and not heard."