African American artists

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Correspondence, invitations, honors and awards, clippings, programs, announcements, speeches, writings, and other ephemera pertaining to Chambliss' career as an artist and educator.

Content Description The Claude Clark papers document the life and work of Clark, an African American painter, printmaker, and educator active from the 1940s through the 1990s. The collection dating from circa 1935 to 2001 consists of correspondence, exhibition catalogs and invitations, teaching materials, writings, photographs, and moving image formats. The earliest documents are reproductions of family photographs and Clark’s contributions to The Wissahickson, the school magazine at Roxborough High...

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The papers of New Orleans-born, self-taught artist Vivian Ellis include catalogs, posters, brochures and other printed ephemera about exhibits, both individual and group, in which Ellis has been included. Most of the items are in German, and many of the exhibits opened in Germany where the artist resides and works as a military nurse. Additional materials include photographs of Ellis' father, Reverend Aaron Ellis, former pastor of the Greater Rose Hill Baptist Church in New Orleans

Scope and Contents The Louise E. Jefferson papers contain a wide variety of Jefferson’s artistic works including drawings and designs. Additionally, the papers cover decades worth of correspondence, and perhaps most notably, hundreds of photographs from around the world. The bulk of the photographs are from Jefferson’s trips to Africa in the 1960s and 1970s, and over a dozen African countries are represented in the collection. Besides her professional photographs, the collection also contains hundreds of...

Content Description This collection, which is intended to be a continuing collection, is comprised of posters and ephemera printed by African American printer Amos Kennedy. It includes posters produced under his Kennedy Prints imprint and a postcard and ephemera produced under the Press of the Black Cat imprint. The works include quotations from Ella Baker, Frederick Douglass, and Rosa Parks. Of note is a large inscribed poster for a musical event produced by Make Music NOLA in New Orleans, Louisiana, in May...

Scope and Contents The Marr-McGee Family papers document the lives of writer, photographer, and cultural promoter Warren Marr II; his wife, attorney, community activist, and energy consultant Carmel Carrington Marr; and his sister, nurse, and race relations advocate Grace Marr Nugent. The key topics covered in this collection are the founding and administration of the Amistad Research Center; Black arts and theater; community development and relations; historically Black colleges and universities; human rights...

Processing Information This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services award MH-245560-OMS-20. Content Description Senga Nengudi papers compile records reflecting more than fifty years of Nengudi’s career and personal life. The papers of Senga Nengudi mainly document her artistic career as a sculptor and performance artist encompassing correspondence, ephemera and photographs. Images and documentation for Nengudi’s...

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Cecelia Pedescleaux is an African American and Louisiana quilt-maker. This collection includes news articles about her, photographs of a quilting workshop given at the Amistad Research Center, as well as a quilt by Pedescleaux on the Amistad Revolt. Of note is information regarding a quilt exhibition in France in 2008.

Scope and Contents The John T. Scott papers contain materials relating to Scott’s work as an artist and teacher in New Orleans, Louisiana. The collection consists of exhibition announcements and catalogs featuring Scott’s artwork, correspondence with fellow board and committee members of local artistic organizations, Scott’s drawings and designs, and collected material from his time as an art professor at Xavier University. The collection also includes correspondence from art galleries and museums, as well as...

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The papers of artist Sue Jane Smock consist of correspondence, clippings, artist statements, and programs. The bulk of the collection consists of photocopies. Of note is Smock's reminiscences of Jessie Covington Dent, as well as statements made by David M. Thomas, Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of Liberia at the 1957 funeral of Smock's father William H. Mitchell.