Tag: Smithsonian Institution

  • Shepard Fairey’s “Barack Obama Hope” poster became the iconic campaign image for the first African American president of the United States. Early in 2008, the Los Angeles–based graphic designer and street artist designed his first Obama portraits, with a stenciled face, visionary upward glance, and inspiring captions.

  • The papers of Henry Ossawa Tanner in the Archives of American Art were digitized in 2007. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 2,471 images.

  • Oral history interview with Benny Andrews, 1968 June 30 Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution Andrews, Benny, b. 1930 d. 2006 Painter Active in New York, N.Y. Size: Transcript: 29 pages Format: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformated in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hrs., 12 min. Collection Summary:…

  • The Black List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Eigth and F Streets, NW Washington, D.C. Open daily: 11:30-19:00 ET 2011-10-28 through 2012-04-22 Curator: Ann Shumard Historian: David C. Ward   Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders — Individual prints are Epson inkjet prints, 147.3 x 111.8 cm (58 x 44 in.) What is…

  • “IndiVisible” Discusses African–Native American Lives Newsdsesk: Newsroom of the Smithsonian Institution 2012-01-06 “IndiVisible: African–Native American Lives in the Americas,” a 20-panel display that outlines the seldom-viewed history and complex lives of people of dual African American and Native American ancestry, will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the…

  • IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas Smithsonian Institution 2009 256 pages 6 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches 115 color and black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 978-1-58834-271-3 Twenty-seven passionate essays explore the complex history and contemporary lives of people with a dual heritage that is a little-known part of American culture. Authors from across the Americas share…