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Marvin Tate (1959-)<\/h2>\r\n

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Marvin Tate (b 1959) is a Chicago based multidisciplinary self-taught artist. Besides being a visual artist, he is also a poet, singer\/songwriter, educator, and a community activist. Tate uses found objects and other discarded materials to create masterful biographical assemblages that reflect his personal experiences.<\/p>\r\n

Finding beauty in obscure surroundings is one of the main subjects in the assemblages he creates. Much of the materials used in Tate\u2019s work were not intended for making art. He transforms trash into powerful iconic assemblages which reflects the narrative of the community he lives.<\/p>\r\n

Tate\u2019s work has been exhibited at various galleries and museums including, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago, Illinois; Hana Pietri Gallery in Chicago, Illinois; and 5 Point Art Galleries & Studies in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<\/p>\r\n

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Richard Hunt (1935-)<\/h2>\r\n
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Born \u202aon September 12, 1935, Chicago\u202c based, Internationally known artist Richard Hunt is perhaps the most important and highly accomplished African-American sculptor living today. Hunt has completed over 150 commissioned public sculptures throughout the United States and his work is in over 100 museum collections throughout the world.<\/p>\r\n

Hunt\u2019s accomplishments span more than seven decades. In 1969, Hunt was the first African-American sculptor to have a retrospective exhibition at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York. He has received over thirty major art awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, the Logan Medal of the Arts, Pauline Palmer Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1997 Artists Award, Studio Museum of Harlem, the Alain Locke International Art Award, and Detroit Institute of Arts. He has received 16 honorary degrees.<\/p>\r\n

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Jamea Richmond-Edwards (1982-)<\/h2>\r\n
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Artist, Jamea Richmond-Edwards (b 1982) was born and raised In Detroit. She is known for her mixed media collages that combine drawing and a variety of papers. The narrative in her work examines the convergence between identities of black American and indigenous culture.<\/p>\r\n

A 2004 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Jackson State University, Richmond-Edwards has received several honors and awards, including the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award and a 2020 Joan Mitchell Artist in residence. She also earned a MFA from Howard University in 2012.<\/p>\r\n

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Some of the venues Rush Arts Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, the California African American Museum and the Charles Wright Museum in Detroit, Michigan.<\/p>\r\n

Currently. Richmond Edwards is one of 12 noted African-American artists commissioned who created work for the exhibition \u201cA Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.\u201d The exhibition examines the impact that the Great Migration has on today\u2019s society.<\/p>\r\n

The other artists who were commissioned to create work for the exhibition are Mark Bradford, Leslie Hewitt, Theaster Gates, Carrie Mae Weems, Robert Pruitt, Torkeasw Dyson, Allison Janae Hamilton, Akea Brionne, Larry W. Cook and Steffani Jemison. The exhibition was co-organized by the Mississippi Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art. It opened October 30, 2022 and runs thru January 29, 2023 at the Mississippi of Art.<\/p>\r\n

Her work is in numerous private and museum collections such as the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Rubell Family Collection.<\/p>\r\n

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Mary \u201cMama Girl\u201d Onley (1954- 2018)<\/h2>\r\n
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A self-taught artist, Mary \u201cMama Girl\u201d Onley (1954- 2018) was born and raised in Painter, Virginia. Her name \u201cMama girl\u201d was given to her by her grandmother then became the artist name she was known as. Her parents were farm laborers and, like her parents, she also worked as a farm laborer.<\/p>\r\n

A mother of six, Onley began creating art after she developed severe allergies from working in the fields. She created vibrate whimsical figures and animals using of strips of newspaper, cardboard, clothes hangers other scraps, acrylic paint and Elmer\u2019s glue. She also made reliefs and paintings.<\/p>\r\n

According to a 2017 interview with Seth Casals, Onley produced a hundred artworks within a week. In the same interview, Onley who also was an ordained pastor, may have predicted her own death. Casals wrote that Onley was labeled a prophet. She said \u201cyou know, I may not be doing this art stuff for much longer\u201d and died the following year in 2018 at the age of 64.<\/p>\r\n

Onley has exhibited her work at various art fairs, museums and galleries. The American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore, Maryland has her work in their collection.<\/p>\r\n

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Joshua Johnson (c.1763-c.1824)<\/h2>\r\n
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Since the antebellum period, African Americans, both enslaved and free, created art. Joshua Johnson (c.1763-c.1824) produced art during antebellum times. Johnson lived in Baltimore, Maryland and is the earliest documented African-American painter who made a career as an artist in the United States. He worked in Maryland and Virginia roughly between the 1790s to 1825. He became known for his portraits of mostly white prominent Maryland residents.<\/p>\r\n

Born into slavery in the mid 1800s, Johnson was owned by William William Wheeler Sr. His father was white and his mother was enslaved to Wheeler. According to the National Gallery of Art, in 1782, Johnson, a self-taught artist, received his freedom. Beginning in 1776, his profession was listed as a portrait painter in the Baltimore city directory. Though historians know very little about Johnson, he is recognized as one of America\u2019s important painters.<\/p>\r\n

Johnson\u2019s painting style is often labeled as naive. The term \u2018naive art\u2019 refers to artwork made by artists who did not go to art school for formal training (causing some look upon their artwork as being unsophisticated). The term is misleading because many assume that a self-taught, outsider or folk artist, as well a certain culture\u2019s artistic style, often means that the creator does not know how to create work in a realistic style. Nothing is further from the truth. There are those in this self-taught, outsider and folk genre who are technically proficient. And there are cultures where the artisans are trained to create in a particular style.<\/p>\r\n

As mentioned earlier, very little is known about Johnson\u2019s history but through the legacy of his work, he remains one of the most important artists in American and African-American art history. Johnson\u2019s work is in several collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/p>\r\n

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