The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Jefferson Eugene Grigsby

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Jefferson Eugene Grigsby

7/11/2007; 7/13/2007

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2007.204

Fine artist, art professor, and high school art teacher Jefferson Eugene Grigsby (1918 - 2013 ) was selected in 1958 by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to represent the United States as an art teacher at the Children's Creative Center at the Brussels World Fair. Grigsby published Art and Ethics: Background for Teaching Youth in a Pluralistic Society, the first book ever written for art teachers by an African American artist and author. Grigsby was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 7/11/2007 and 7/13/2007, in Phoenix, Arizona. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 10; Total Run Time: 04h 50m 06s

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Grigsby, J. Eugene (Jefferson Eugene), 1918-2013

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Jefferson Eugene Grigsby Jr., African American artist and art educator, was born in Greensboro, N.C., on 17 October 1918. Grigsby attended Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C., then Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., graduating with a degree in art in 1938. During this time, he studied under the painter Hale Woodruff. From 1938 to 1939, he studied at the American Artists School in New York, where he met prominent African American artists including Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden. In ...