Midterm People and Groups

Question 1

AFRI-COBRA

Answer 1

Chicago based group of black artists who used vibrant color

Question 2

Alexis P. Gumbs

Answer 2

Black feminist and activist
Inspired by June Jordan to attend Barnard like her

Question 3

Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”

Answer 3

Quilt controversy in the story
Maggie using the quilt as an actual blanket instead of hanging it on the wall
Kind of object - quilt as blanket vs art on the wall
Use - everyday, untouched and preserved
Heritage - practice: intangible knowledge and skill (tradition); material: the actual thing
Home space - living space and museum

Question 4

Amadou Hampâté Bâ

Answer 4

African art
Initiation association (secret society)
Bamana culture (Mali)
N’tomo society (fork like) and Komo society (horse hair)

Question 5

Andrew Wyeth

Answer 5

Painted Garret Room
From PA, his father taught him how to paint

Question 6

Art Students League artists

Answer 6

Charles Alston and Romare Bearden studied painting here
They’re artists in Who Look at Me

Question 7

El Anatsui

Answer 7

Kra!
Bottle cap art
Also made engraved food trays and ceramic pots
Ewe - his ethnic background (group in Ghana)

Question 8

Elizabeth Alexander

Answer 8

Wrote Light of the World, memoir ab Ficre, her husband
Languages are “human bridges”… referring to Ficre

Question 9

Elizabeth Catlett

Answer 9

American and Mexican artist known for her sculptures and prints featuring African American women
US gov’t didn’t allow her into US but later did

Question 10

Ficre Ghebreyesus

Answer 10

East African culture is reflected in most of his art
Political refugee from Eritrea, in East Africa
Traveled to three continents (Eritrea, Sudan, Italy, Germany, United States)
Studied printmaking at Bob Blackburn’s printmaking workshop

Question 11

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

Answer 11

Art historian who discussed Garret Room

Question 12

Henry Glassie and 3 master contexts

Answer 12

Folklorist
1. creation - meaning made in the creation process
2. communication - what object communicates and how it conveys meaning
3. consumption - meanings of creator are eclipsed by meanings of consumer

Question 13

June Jordan

Answer 13

Wrote the children’s book Who Look at Me
Mother: Milicent Jordan
“Love is life force”

Question 14

Lebohang Kganye

Answer 14

Did photographs with her mother photoshopped in

Question 15

Lily Hope

Answer 15

Chilkat mask protector weaver
Bringing order to her thoughts motivates her to weave
Describes weaving as breathing with the universal consciousness
Everyone can feel the ancestral being-ness in the room (how her art is received in the world)

Question 16

Marcel Duchamp

Answer 16

Fountain, 1917
R. Mutt
Readymade
Ex. Bicycle wheel
Copies? Replicas? (Sanctioned replicas)
Institutional critique
Artistic intervention

Question 17

Milton Meltzer

Answer 17

Meltzer is June Jordan’s publisher
She worked hard to get certain pictures and poems published

Question 18

Sherrie Levine

Answer 18

Made a gold Fountain version “Buddha”

Question 19

Symeon Shimin

Answer 19

From Russia
Attended art classes at night
Painted murals and designed posters
Work has been in galleries, museums, books, and magazines

Question 20

Tom Clark

Answer 20

Model in Garret Room and for several of Wyeth’s paintings

Question 21

Tom Feelings and Muriel Feelings

Answer 21

Created Jambo Means Hello
Lived in Guyana and Tom lived in Ghana

Question 22

Vanessa Tembane

Answer 22

Takes photos of family and removes certain figures and uses photo transfer process to put a capulana (textile type) on it
Moved to south africa but from mozambique
Photographer
They use capulana as a baby carrier
Puts capulana in the background of images… layers of meaning
Printed on fabric