Event Title:

Organization:

  Cultural or Historical

  Atlanta

Start Date:

  8/17/2004

End Date:

  12/17/2004

Start Time:

  2:00 p.m.

End Time:

  6:00 p.m.

Event Info: 

  "Anima of the African Diaspora: The Feminine Presence" is inspired by the National Black Arts Festival theme "Sister Fire: Creative Expressions of Women of the African Diaspora." Through a broad selection of paintings, prints, sculpture and textiles by women of color and reflections of Black women produced by female and male artists. In concert, these works depict the maternal "soul" of the African Diaspora, a tenacious pirit that survived displacement, subjugation, and and through ingenious mother wit enabled fragments of an indigenous culture to permeate the aesthetics of Western civilization in varied forms. Also featured "Hail to Hale Woodruff, a satelite display of prints and paintings by the celebrated artists and professor Hale Woodruff (1900-1980), which will compliment the High Museum of Art's exhibition of Woodruff's Atlanta public housing murals executed in the 1930's.

Location:

  Trevor Arnett Hall

Room:

  2nd floor

Address:

  223 James P. Brawley Drive, SW

Phone:

  404-880-6102

City:

  Atlanta

State/Province:

  GA