Jones grew up in New York City’s Harlem, and while still in high school she decided to be an artist. She attended City College of New York, where she received a degree in fine arts and education (1955) and an M.A. in fine arts (1959). In the mid-1950s Jones started teaching art in New York public schools, a job she held until the 1970s. After Jones married her second husband, Burdette Ringgold, in 1962, she began using his name professionally.
By the 1960s Ringgold’s work had matured, reflecting her burgeoning political consciousness, study of African arts and history, and appreciation for the freedom of form used by her young students. She began a body of paintings in 1963 called the
FSC Names Endowed Chair To Further Strengthen Ties Between Polk Museum Of Art, Local Arts Community
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LAKELAND, Fla., Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Florida Southern College has named Dr. H. Alexander Rich as an endowed chair in the Department of Art History and Museum Studies.
Dr. Rich, who was named the George and Dorothy Forsythe Endowed Chair in Art History and Museum Studies, is associate professor of art history and chair of FSC s Department of Art History and Museum Studies. He also is executive director and chief curator of the Polk Museum of Art and director of the Melvin and Burks Galleries on the Florida Southern campus.
Leon Black, the billionaire board chairman of the Museum of Modern Art, in 2015 Getty Images
Ratcheting up the pressure for his resignation, an array of over 150 artists, art workers and collectives have called for the removal of Leon Black as board chairman of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) after months of controversy over the billionaire’s payments to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and other financial ties.
“We, as artists and art workers, support the removal of Leon Black from the board of MoMA for reasons that have already been stated by many others,” their statement reads. “However, this should be considered the bare minimum. Beyond his removal, we must think seriously about a collective exit from art’s imbrication in toxic philanthropy and structures of oppression, so that we don’t have to have the same conversations over and over, one board member at a time.”
Revered and preeminent Detroit artist Charles McGee, 96, has died
Prominent Michigan artist Charles McGee has died at age 96.
A co-founder of the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, McGee s art career spanned 70 years and included exhibitions across the globe. He was the first Kresge Eminent Artist in 2008 and in 2012 The Detroit News honored him with a Michiganian of the Year award. He will be deeply missed by the countless people whose lives he has touched, but will live on through his art, which chronicles the Black experience, and champions unity and a love of nature, reads a statement from the Library Street Collective Friday confirming his death.