Interviews of AfriCOBRA founders

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Interviews of AfriCOBRA founders

2010

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The interviews of AfriCOBRA founders measure 0.607 gigabytes and date from 2010. This collection includes digital transcripts and audio files of interviews with AfriCOBRA founders and artists Michael Harris, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Carolyn Lawrence, Howard Mallory, and Robert Sengstacke. TV Land/Hudson Street Production, Inc. conducted these interviews with AfriCOBRA founders and artists about their experiences as African American artists and about the artistic community.In 2011, TV Land produced a documentary special <emph render="italic">AfriCOBRA: Art for the People</emph>. It is possible that these interviews are related to this project.

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Mallory, Howard.

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Harris, Michael D., 1948-....

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Hudson Street Productions.

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Jarrell, Jae.

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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 ...

Lawrence, Carolyn M.

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Jones-Henderson, Napoleon.

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Napoleon Jones-Henderson was born in 1943 in Chicago, Illinois. Jones-Henderson attended the Sorbonne Student Continuum Student and Artists Center in Paris, France in 1963 where spent one year immersed in an independent study program. Upon returning to the United States, he enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago and received his B.F.A. degree from there in 1971. Jones-Henderson went on to earn with his M.A. degree from Northern Illinois University in 1971 and his M.F.A. degree from the Marylan...

Jones-Hogu, Barbara 1938-

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AFRICOBRA (Artists' group)

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AfriCOBRA which stands for African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (est. 1968) is an artist collective founded in Chicago, Ill. AfriCOBRA explores the possibility of identifying or developing a characteristically Black style in the visual arts. From the description of Interviews of AfriCOBRA founders, 2010. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744437362 ...