Tag: mixed-media
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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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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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Elise Kendrick
Elise Kendrick Creating art has been an intrinsic part of my being for as long as I can remember. While my artistic path has varied, coming from a long line of storytellers and educators has contributed to my desire to visually tell stories. By using painting and printmaking as a vehicle to create, I am…
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William ‘Bill’ Johnson
Bill Johnson Arts educator and Tennessee State University (Tennessee A&I University) alumni, Johnson taught art at Stratford High in Nashville, TN. Johnson received his first formal arts training at the Vancouver School of Art and traveled through Canada studying the art of Native peoples in the 1950s. He served as artist in residence at George…
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Barbara Hodges
Barbara Hodges Barbara Hodges has loved the idea of art making from the age of about seven, when she became fascinated by the works of Romare Bearden. She is a native of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Upon graduation from Oakland High School, Barbara earned her way to Middle Tennessee State University on an academic scholarship. After completing…
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Leroy Hodges
Leroy Hodges A native of Meridian, Mississippi, Leroy Hodges attended and graduated from Harris High School. After high school, he attended Mississippi Valley State University where he earned a Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics with a minor in Physics. Upon graduation, Leroy served his country, joining the United States Air Force in Upstate New York.…
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Willard Hill
Willard Hill When local artist Willard Hill was born, a gallon of gasoline cost 19 cents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president of the United States and desegregation of public schools was still 20 years off. Now 88 years old, the lifelong Manchester resident is gaining worldwide attention with his mixed media sculptures. Hill’s work ranges…
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Bessie Harvey+
Bessie Harvey A new creative voice in the region emerged in Alcoa, Tennessee, in the late twentieth century. Entirely self-taught, Bessie Harvey (1929–1994) used little more than roots, sticks, shells, and paint to assemble a diverse cast of spirited figures—biblical characters, African ancestors, mythological creatures—infused with uplifting messages of human perseverance and divine compassion. Harvey’s…
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