{"id":9773,"date":"2021-06-29T16:15:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media-archive.blackartinamerica.com\/?p=9773"},"modified":"2021-07-07T17:01:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:01:37","slug":"baia-bits-marva-jolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=9773","title":{"rendered":"BAIA BITS: Marva Jolly"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAIA BITS: Marva Jolly<\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/b>My mother\u2019s death\u2026 at nine years old, I knew that the decisions that I made about what I was going to be was going to come from me because I didn\u2019t have a mother to talk it over with. It is me I want to be proud of and satisfied.\u201d<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0–<\/b> Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"In the 1940s, while growing up on her family farm in Crenshaw, Mississippi, Marva Jolly was already practicing the craft she\u2019d later be known for without knowing it. The young girl would mold things from the mud under her porch before dousing her creations with water when she wanted them to disappear. Decades later, this precursory artistic practice, along with the early death of her mother and the loss of a job, would ultimately inspire Jolly to forge a successful career making things from clay.<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon relocating to Chicago with her family in the 1950s and attending Roosevelt University and Governors State University, Jolly became a social worker, occasionally studying or working with ceramics as a hobby. However, in 1982, upon Reaganomics and its deep cuts to federal health care funding, the 45-year-old Jolly lost her position after two decades of working in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n

True to her words, the ones inspired by her mother\u2019s early death, Marva Jolly devoted herself fully to art. After her first solo show, an impressed administrator arranged for a part-time position teaching ceramics at Chicago State University. Though not familiar with many of the technical aspects of the field of ceramics, Marva Jolly later reported learning the academic side of the craft \u201cright along with the students\u201d and ultimately becoming a tenured professor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Decision Makers – Friendship Bowl” by Marva Jolly, Hand built stoneware clay and clear underglaze colors, 23″ X 9″<\/p><\/div>\n

While using her artistic skills to promote Blackness and her Mississippi upbringing in the classroom, Marva Jolly also shared her knowledge and craft with the Chicago community. She was an active member with the South Side Community Art Center and the Hyde Park Art Center. She opened a popular studio for art and ceramics in Hyde Park. For decades, she continued to offer her increasingly valuable artwork for prices that members of her community could afford. And in 1986, Marva Jolly founded Sapphire and Crystals, an enduring collective enabling African American female artists to exhibit together.<\/span><\/p>\n

Best known for her \u201cstory pots\u201d where she adorned her ceramics with tales of her family and growing up Black in Mississippi, the late Marva Jolly left behind a vibrant artistic legacy forever preserved in clay. She once promoted that her art was something \u201cpermanent\u201d she could leave behind, offering \u201cThis is what I felt about Black culture and how it contributed to the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Robinson is co-author of Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise<\/u>, (Atria Books, 2009). She is a nationally recognized expert on issues relating to social policy, women, race, family, and electoral politics. She was featured as one of the 30 Young Leaders of the Future in Ebony Magazine and was profiled in the book As I Am: Young African American Women in a Critical Age<\/u>, by Julian Okwu. Robinson is a frequent speaker expressing her views in countless media outlets including the Associated Press, The Washington Post, C-Span, Fox News, NewsOne <\/em>and NPR<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Stephanie was a Member of President Clinton\u2019s first Mission to Africa regarding children orphaned by AIDS. Robinson, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland and the Harvard Law School, is a native of Steubenville, Ohio. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two sons.<\/p>\n

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