{"id":51378,"date":"2017-02-03T01:01:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T01:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51378"},"modified":"2017-02-03T01:01:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T01:01:56","slug":"iconic-fine-arts-sculptor-edmonia-lewis-honored-in-google-doodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51378","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Fine Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored In Google Doodle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iconic Fine Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored In Google Doodle<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Huffington Post<\/a>
\n2017-02-01<\/p>\n

Zahara Hill<\/strong><\/a>, Black Voices Editorial Fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSophie Diao<\/a>
\nThe artist\u2019s dedication to portraying her African-American and Native-American ancestry separated her from other sculptors.\u00a0 <\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Black History Month<\/a> began with the art of this lesser-known black icon.<\/em><\/p>\n

In honor of the start of Black History Month<\/a> on Wednesday, Google Doodle<\/a> paid tribute to Edmonia Lewis<\/a>, who is considered to be the first woman of African-American and Native American descent to earn global recognition as a fine arts sculptor.<\/p>\n

Lewis, who was born in Greenbush, New York<\/a> in 1844, is particularly known for sculpting on \u201cThe Death of Cleopatra<\/a>,\u201d which is a graphic but highly praised depiction of the death of the former Egyptian Queen. Google Doodler Sophie Diao<\/a> told HuffPost she drew the illustration on Google\u2019s homepage in homage to Lewis because she has always been inspired by her work…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iconic Fine Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored In Google Doodle The Huffington Post 2017-02-01 Zahara Hill, Black Voices Editorial Fellow Sophie Diao The artist\u2019s dedication to portraying her African-American and Native-American ancestry separated her from other sculptors.\u00a0 Black History Month began with the art of this lesser-known black icon. In honor of the start of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,459,8,20,25],"tags":[21453,3798,11058,26117,10108,17184,26119,2425,26118],"class_list":["post-51378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-black-history-month","tag-edmonia-lewis","tag-google","tag-google-doodle","tag-huffington-post","tag-mary-edmonia-lewis","tag-sophie-diao","tag-the-huffington-post","tag-zahara-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51379,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51378\/revisions\/51379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}