Black Folk Art in Cleveland.

Biographical notes:

The Black Folk Art in Cleveland exhibition (1984) was presented by the Mather Gallery of Case Western Reserve University. This exhibit was the result of a search for Cleveland's African American folk artists and the works created by them. The exhibit brought together in a rare display and festival, the folk culture of this city's African American community. Black Folk Art: Tradition, Transition, and Adaptation featured folk artists: Peggy Davenport, found objects artist; Reverend Albert Wagner, painter; Ruby Hall, quilter; Helen Dobbins, painter; Jim (Jimoko) Moss, woodcarver; Mickey Towns, painter; Benjamin Collins, metalsmith; Pearkine Lard, quilter; Marcella Welch, dollmaker; Nick Biggins, metalsmith; and, J.D. Harmon, needleworker.

From the guide to the Black Folk Art in Cleveland Records, 1983-1984, (Western Reserve Historical Society)

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Subjects:

  • African Americans
  • Afro
  • Afro
  • Biggins, Nick
  • Black Folk Art in Cleveland
  • Case Western Reserve University. Mather Gallery
  • Collins, Benjamin
  • Davenport, Peggy
  • Dobbins, Helen
  • Exhibitions
  • Hall, Ruby
  • Harmon, J.D
  • Lard, Pearkine
  • Moss, Jim
  • Towns, Mickey
  • Wagner, Albert
  • Welch, Marcella

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