Category: West
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Shamek Weddle
Shamek Weddle Art Teacher at Shelby County Schools (formerly MCS) in Memphis. Experienced Art Teacher with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry. Skilled in Murals, Lesson Planning, Educational Technology, Fine Art, and Tutoring. Strong education professional with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) focused in Two-Dimensional Studies–Painting from University of Massachusetts,…
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Andrew Travis
Andrew Travis Born and raised in Paris, TN, Andrew is a self-taught artist that found his way into visual art after a Spirited Art class provided by the University of Tennessee Chattanooga during finals week. After the class, Andrew decided to further his path down visual arts. Through finding faces in the paint, Andrew has…
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LueElla Hardin Marshall
LueElla Hardin Marshall “VISUAL ARTIST, BUSINESS WOMAN, MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, GREAT GRANDMOTHER and GREAT GREAT GRAND MOTHER, and OLDEST SISTER Mrs. LueElla Hardin Marshall, a native of Byhalia, Mississippi. My family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. In The Historic Orange Mound Community December 24, 1966. Founder/President of the Orange Mound Neighborhood and Veterans Association, INC. Founded, September…
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Lurlynn Franklin
Lurlynn Franklin Lurlynn Franklin is an artist, writer, arts advocate, and an art educator born and currently residing in Memphis. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Minot State University and a master’s in Studio Painting and art education from Memphis College of Art. Since the age of 16, she has been a visual…
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Elisheba Israel Mrozik
Elisheba Israel Mrozik “The narrative of Black identity has, for too long, been interwoven with threads of deception, appropriation, and commodification. Nowhere is this more evident than in the complex journey of Ankara fabric, a textile that many view as emblematic of African heritage. But as the ‘Hood Cloth’ series seeks to illuminate, the true…
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Dr. Charles E. McGruder
Dr. Charles E. McGruder Dr. Charles E. McGruder began his education at Alabama A&M, serving in World War II in the Army Aircorps. He resumed his studies at Xavier University, and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at Meharry Medical College, graduating in 1952. Spending his career in Nashville specializing in Obstetrics & Gynecology, he…
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Aundra McCoy
Aundra McCoy Aundra McCoy grew up in a family of seamstresses and quilters, and her mixed media quilts reflect this lineage. Raised in the historic African American community of Orange Mound, Tennessee, McCoy carries on this legacy of textile arts. McCoy’s mother taught each of her children how to sew by hand and by machine.…
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Hattie Marshall-Duncan
Hattie Marshall-Duncan Self-taught sculptor Hattie Marshall-Duncan, of Jackson, turns clay and found objects into highly distinctive masterworks. As a child, she was inspired by the drawings of her father, a sharecropper who was “a folk artist, though he didn’t know it,” according to Hattie. She created art from a young age, but it was not…
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Rahn Marion
Rahn Marion My work borrows from history, documents my place within the Western art canon, asserts black representation, and combats moral hypocrisy. I’ve been inspired by history and places, and people. My work’s visual language features symbolism, metaphors, and reflections of past historical art periods while juxtaposing, integrating, and portraying black figures in the contemporary.…
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