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Bisa Butler is a biethnic fiber artist whose art reflects her heritage mixing traditional Black American quilting techniques with African fabrics often recreating iconic photos in Black American History
A #BlackArt 🧵🪡
I Am Not Your Negro
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Bisa Butler | #BlackArt
The Tea
The Photo The Quilt ImageImage
Bisa Butler | #BlackArt
Southside Sunday Morning
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Emma Amos was a Black American artist and educator who combined painting, printmaking and textiles to create unique art pieces

A #Blackart Appreciation 🧵
22 and Cheetah, 1983
Emma Amos
Targets, 1992
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Emma Amos
Slow Time, 1983
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Laura Wheeler Waring came from an educated family and was a 6th generation college graduate who taught art for more than 30 years at Cheyney University and is best known for her portraits of Black Americans

A #BlackArt Appreciation 🧵
Anna Washington Derry, 1925
Laura Wheeler Waring
Little Brown Girl
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Laura Wheeler Waring
W.E.B. Du Bois
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Pearl Fryar was born in 1939 to a sharecropper family. When he tried to purchase a home he was denied because white residents thought he would not maintain his property

He is now internationally recognized and celebrated for his topiary artistry and sculptures
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Pearl Fryer is a self taught artist

After working 12 hour days as an engineer at a Coca-Cola factory in Bishopville, South Carolina, Pearl would sometimes work through the night using salvaged "throwaway" plants from friends and local nurseries
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Pearl Fryar compliments his intricate plant designs with what he calls "junk art"

He uses recycled and scrapped materials to create striking sculptures and art pieces
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Phyllis Stephens is a fifth generation Black American quilt maker and has been quilting professionally for over 30 years. She is considered a master of the Black American story quilt

A #BlackQuilt appreciation thread 🪡 🧵
Redeemed, 2021 #BlackArt Image
Phyllis Stephens
Lover’s Lane, 2016
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Phyllis Stephens
Double Dutch
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Delilah Pierce Art Appreciation Thread
Twins, 1952
#BlackArt
Delilah Pierce
Martha's Vineyard - Montage, 1977
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Delilah Pierce
Nebulae X, 1983
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Charles White Art Appreciation 🧵
Love Letter III, 1977
#BlackArt #BHM
Charles White
The Mother, 1953
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Charles White
Negro: USA, 1949
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Read 41 tweets
William Artis Art Appreciation 🧵
A Mother's Love, 1963
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William Artis
Untitled (Idealized Head of a Woman), 1946
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William Artis
Head of a Boy, 1930
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Lois Mailou Jones Art Appreciation 🧵
Initiation, Liberia, 1983
#BlackArt #BHM
Lois Mailou Jones
Portrait of Hudson, 1932
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Lois Mailou Jones
Arreau, Hautes-Pyrénées, 1949
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Aaron Douglas
Into Bondage, 1936
#BlackHistoryMonth
Aaron Douglas
Aspiration, 1936 #BlackHistoryMonth
Aaron Douglas
Building More Stately Mansions, 1944
#BlackArt #BHM
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