Slide 2:
Meaningful Exchange
A single glance can impart as many levels of understanding and as much depth of meaning as if the individuals had conversed for hours. Helping students understand that everything they do communicates has been one of my goals as a public relations educator for over twenty years. Trying tocapture that sense of non-verbal communication using only facial expressionswas the goal for creating this pair of paintings. The real joy in this work has come from hearing the multitude of proposed explanations for the expression of the man and woman.
Artist:
David A. Shadinger Acrylic Man Acrylic Woman Meaningful Exchange
Slide 3:
Dream Big Dream Big
Is a part of a series of paintings based on and inspired by the Negro National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and sing. I created 60 paintings using each line of the hymn for the paintings. Dream Big is my interpretation of the line Thou who has by thy might Led Us Into The Light. To me that means education, teaching, learning and academic success. The white area in the center contains a statement about dreaming big. That area can also be used to incorporate your own information or comments.
Artist:
Malaika Favorite
Slide 4:
MAÎTRESSES MAÎTRESSES
This work is based upon the levels and layers of knowledge that inform African American experience. The African head (borrowed from Benin) is at the center and is flanked by ghost-like silhouettes of European and Native American figures. The symbols are from Haitian Vodou, one of the many syncretic religious retentions of African people in the Americas; this particular symbol is attributed to the LWA (spirit) of Erzulie, the diety of love. The Francophone word maîtresses, in this case, alludes to a matriarch-like figure whose mastery of this knowledge imparts wisdom, as she looks forward to the future.
Artist:
Barbara Nesin
Slide 5:
The Greatest Burden The Greatest Burden
It is one’s moral responsibility to share the knowledge he has gained with those who, otherwise, would not have access to the same pool of information. The burden becomes a heavy load when one has realized that the truth has been withheld from him. To relieve the weight, one tries to absorb as much information as possible, while exposing the truth to one’s fellowman. But, again, the load becomes taxing when he tries to convince his brother that he, too, has been fed an assortment of lies and that his knowledge base is steeped in fabrication and distorted reality. In essence, one’s burden, not only, lies in individual consumption, but, in its ultimate liberation to the masses.
Artist:
Dante Yarbrough
Slide 6:
Education Connection Education Connection
This painting was inspired by Benjamin E Mays, owed with Bethune's passion and energized by Washington's achievements.
Artist:
Rupert Nedd