Works by Nydia Blas and Devin Troy Strother join the permanent collection of the California African American Museum
Devin Troy Strother, Guuuuurl you know i love me some yves kleins to, 2013. Acrylic and auto-body paint on aluminum.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Over the Influence announced the acceptance of works by Nydia Blas and Devin Troy Strother into the permanent collection of the California African American Museum (CAAM). Each individual will have two artworks join the museums collection- Blas photographs Way Up and Whatever You Like, both from 2017, and Strothers sculptures downward thoughts of colour, 2020 and guuuuurl you know i love me some yves kleins to, 2013.
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Alternative Titles: Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Tuskegee University, private, coeducational, historically black institution of higher education in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S. Its establishment as a school for training African American teachers was approved by the Alabama state legislature in 1880; the school still serves a predominantly black student body.
Booker T. Washington (front row, centre left), with Andrew Carnegie and other sponsors of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1903.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The educator Booker T. Washington founded the school in 1881 and served as its principal until his death in 1915. The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (the school’s fourth name; 1891–1937) inculcated Washington’s principles of providing practical training for African Americans and helping them develop economic self-reliance through the mastery of manual trades and agricultural skills. In the 1920s T