Tag: photography
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Gail Clemons
Gail Clemons Gail Clemons is a rare native Nashvillian. Being reared in the community of Hopewell near grandparents and cousins influenced her perspective. Family and friends were her first subjects, when she was a child. Throughout her life, Gail has always been fascinated by artbooks and how the world is represented through the eyes of…
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Landry Butler
Landry Butler Toward the Dawn (Vers l’aube) is a deeply personal and meditative piece created from a spectrum of black-to-gray dreadlocks, shorn from my own head over a period of more than three decades. Affixed with linen thread to canvas, the 16×20-inch work evokes the tonal gradation of black-and-white photography and the symbolic language of…
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LeXander Bryant
LeXander Bryant “LeXander Bryant is an Alabama-born photographer and visual artist based in Nashville, TN. Focused on capturing the essence of Black Folks, particularly in the American South, his work centers around the documentation & design of the black experience through stories of triumph, resilience, and cultural identity. LeXander has been featured in both group…
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Earl J. Hooks
Earl J. Hooks Earl J. Hooks was a nationally renowned artist celebrated for his contributions in sculpture, ceramics and photography. His artistic oeuvre spanned over sixty years and was highlighted in an exhibit titled “The Art of Photography: Through the Eyes of Earl J. Hooks,” which featured fifty photographs and three-dimensional works. This exhibition was…
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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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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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Art Eubanks+
Art Eubanks+ Alumni and international arts educator, Eubanks worked in a variety of mediums; oil pastels, clay to collage, displaying subjects and places that he lived and experienced. Graduating from Cameron High School in 1966, he then earned a degree in Art Education from Tennessee State University. He taught and studied in various European, Caribbean,…
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Carlton Wilkinson
Carlton Wilkinson Carlton Wilkinson is a photographer whose dramatic black and white images reflect contemporary life and its relationship to the African American experience. His work has won the Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship and a number of art competition awards as well as being included in major collections such as the Schomburg Center in New…
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