Black History Month

A COLLECTION OF ARTISTS
Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-MichelBasquiat was a
Neo-Expressionist painter in the
1980s.
He is best known for his
primitive style and his
collaboration with pop artist
Andy Warhol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khca7zJigMY
 Kara Walker

Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November

26, 1969) is an African American
contemporary painter, silhouettist,
printmaker, installation artist and film-
maker who
explores race, gender, sexuality,
violence and identity in her work.
She is best known for her room-size
tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clvQRQO5x7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QbXdPv-O1g
 Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist

whose work explores race, language, desire,
sexuality, and identity.
Born: 1960, The Bronx, New York City, NY
Ligon engages in intertextuality with other
works from the visual arts, literature, and
history, as well as his own life. He is noted as
one of the originators of the term Post-
Blackness.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrVH05Z8oHc
 Carrie Mae Weems

Carrie Mae Weems (born April 20, 1953) is

an American artist who works with text, fabric,
audio, digital images, and installation video but
is best known for her work in the field
of photography.
She has said, "Let me say that my primary
concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and
place of Afro-Americans in our country." More
recently however, she expressed that Black
experience is not really the main point; rather,
complex, dimensional, human experience and
social inclusion ... is the real point.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPDInpNoO50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBxwugaFRhg
 Dr. Dre

Andre Romelle Young (born February

18, 1965), better known by his stage
name Dr. Dre, is an American rapper,
record producer, and entrepreneur. He
is the founder and current CEO
of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats
Electronics. Dre was previously the co-
owner of, and an artist on, Death Row
Records.