The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr.

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr.

5/20/2001

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2001.044

Painter Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr. (1929 - ) helped form a collective called COBRA-Coalition of Black Revolutionary Artists, which later became AFRI-COBRA, the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists. AFRI-COBRA took as its central tenets black pride, social responsibility and the development of a new diasporic African identity. Jarrell's work has been shown at numerous places including the Smithsonian International Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Jarrell was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 5/20/2001, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 16m 49s

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Jarrell, Wadsworth, 1929-

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Revolutionary social artist Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Sr. was born in Albany, Georgia, in 1929, the youngest of six children. Jarrell credits his father, a furniture maker, and the rest of his family for supporting his childhood interest in art. After high school, Jarrell enlisted in the army, served in Korea, and then moved to Chicago. In 1954, Jarrell enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago majoring in advertising art and graphic design. Not long afterward, Jarrell lost interest in ...