Bernice Sims (1926-2014)
Artist Bernice Sims (1926-2014) was born and raised near Brewton, Alabama. Bernice Sims was active in the Civil Rights Movement, having marched in Selma and encouraged African-American voter registration.
During the 1980s, she became an artist after becoming disabled and taking painting classes at a community college. Her instructor Larry Manning recognized her talent and suggested that she find her own style of painting. She did and went on to create paintings from memories from her life.
She was one of the guest artists at the Kentuck Festival of Arts in Northport Alabama. Kentuck is one the biggest art festivals in the United States which feature the works of folk, self-taught and outsider artists. Some of the genre’s most important artists have been invited as guest artists such as Gees Bend quilters, Jimmy Lee Sudduth Annie Tolliver, Lonnie Holley, Charlie “The Tin Man” Lucas, and Howard Finster.
Her paintings are in the collection of Atlanta’s High Museum and the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, Alabama.
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Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948)
Artist and educator Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948) was born in Hartford, Connecticut on May 16, 1887. Though she painted other subject matter, she was primarily know as a portrait painter. Waring painted portraits of some of the most notable African-American figures of her time such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Marian Anderson, and James Weldon Johnson.
She was a member of the NAACP and created illustrations for the NAACP’s magazine, The Crisis, and for its children’s publication, the Brownies’ Book, during the 1920s. Her paintings were exhibited at various art institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago and the Brooklyn’s Museum. Many of the portraits that she created are currently in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
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Mark Bradford (1961-)
Artist Mark Bradford (b 1961) is based out of Los Angeles and is a contemporary artist known for his monumental abstract paintings created out of paper. He also uses everyday materials and tools from the aisles of the hardware store in his work and other materials ranging from billboards and flyers to graffitied stencils to create a unique artistic language, which frequently is referred as “social abstraction.”
A graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Bradford is an award-winning artist. Some of the awards he has received are the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship 2009), the Bucksbaum Award (2006), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2003), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2002).
In 2017, Bradford represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Venues include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Dallas Museum of Art. His work is in several collections including the state Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901)
Artist Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901) was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. Bannister was one of the few African-American painters of the nineteenth century to win significant recognition. As a prominent member of African-American cultural and political communities, Bannister lived in the United States in New England.
In 1876, he won first prize in painting at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, which earned him national recognition. He was part of the American Barbizon school, whose painters focused on painting rural landscapes and were influenced by the French Barbizon School painters. However, Bannister developed his skills as a painter without European exposure.
He was a founding member of the Providence Art Club and an original board member of the Rhode Island School of Design. An 1867 article in the New York Herald criticized Bannister and his work, stating, “the negro has an appreciation for art while being manifestly unable to produce it.” The article reportedly fueled his motivation to succeed as artist.
Today, Bannister is considered one of America’s most important artists and he is one of the trailblazers who opened the doors for other black artists. His work is in museum collections, including The Birmingham Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Sonya Clark (1967-)
Born in Washington DC in 1967, Sonya Clark’s work explores race, culture, and history within the context of blackness woven within the white racist fabric of America. A fabric artist of Caribbean heritage, Clark uses a range of materials in her work such as human hair, beads, textiles, flags, buttons, coins, and combs.
A Professor of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College, Clark has won several awards for her work. Some of the awards she received are the Rappaport Prize, a United States Artist Fellowship, a Pollock Krasner award, an 1858 Prize, Smithsonian Artist Residence Fellowship, and an Anonymous Was a Woman Award.
Her work has been exhibited at the Walters Art Museum, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, National Museum of Women in the Art, and she is in the collection of the National Museum of American History.
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