African American Art – At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

Henry Ossawa Tanner: The Thankful Poor

See More Henry Ossawa Tanner At Sunnyside The Thankful Poor at wikiwand Henry Ossawa Tanner paintings at wikimedia Read More Henry Ossawa Tanner at wikiwand Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside

Vincent Van Gogh: The Red Vineyard

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Tamara Natalie Madden: “Out of Many, One People”

Though Tamara Natalie Madden was born in Kingston, Jamaica, she spent her teenage years in Madison, Wisconsin. Born with dark skin to a mother with light skin, Ms. Madden observed endemic racist behavior from people of color, both in Jamaica and in the United States – based solely on the degree of darkness of skin;…

Tamara Natalie Madden: An Artist Remembered

Tamara Natalie Madden (1975 –2017) was a Jamaican-born mother, mixed-media artist, and professor of art and visual culture at Spelman College in Atlanta. On November 4, 2017, she died at her home in Snellville, Georgia, only two weeks after being diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer. She was 42. “Out of Many, One People” Though Tamara…

Harriet Powers’s Bible Quilt (1885-1886)

Who Is Harriet Powers? According to the National Museum of American History, “Harriet Powers, an African American farm woman of Clarke County, Georgia, made this quilt in about 1886. She exhibited it at the Athens Cotton Fair of 1886 where it captured the imagination of Jennie Smith, a young internationally-trained local artist. Of her discovery,…