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Flo Jo World Record Nails
2000 acrylic fake fingernails, nail polish, rhinestones, metal, wood
Sculpture made from 2000 artist-made replica acrylic fingernails in the shape of an ascending 200m running course. Fingernails were individually hand painted after the manicure that Florence Griffith-Joyner wore during the 1988 Olympics, when she set the 200 m world record. Sculpture is 200m track at 1:100 scale. -
Film Series: A Study of Negro Artists
Silent film in black and white on four reels covering the 1930s African American visual artists during the Harlem Renaissance: New York , NY, Black Cultural Art Scenes. -
Realization: Augusta Savage
Augusta Savage posing with her sculpture Realization, created as part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. -
Maquette for Ethiopia (later known as Ethiopia Awakening)
Contorted figures were exhibited at the Maison de l’Art Nouveau, critiqued by Auguste Rodin, and included in the 1903 Salon. -
Celebrating the Dream
The Black Experience in Children's Books: Bibliographies -
The Family (Around the Dining Table)
Social Realism in African American Community -
"Ghetto Headlines"
Artwork from Ethnic American Art Library Series - 1971 - ca. 1972, University of South Alabama, of paintings; sculptures; acrylics; pottery; and other artworks by 104 Afro American artists. -
The Negro Motorist Green Book | Yr. 1949 Edition
The Negro Motorist Green Book (at times styled The Negro Motorist Green-Book or titled The Negro Travelers' Green Book) was an annual guidebook for African-American roadtrippers, commonly referred to simply as the Green Book. It was originated and published by New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often legally prescribed discrimination against non-whites was widespread. Credit: Wikipedia -
The Negro American Magazine
The Negro American was a Harlem Renaissance era magazine published in San Antonio, Texas.