Reading Art Book Club December 8, 2010

Opening December 3rd at the Museum of Art, the exhibit "Looking Ahead: Portraits from the Mott-Warsh Collection" http://lookingahead.org/ features portraits of over 30 portraits of African-Americans in a wide variety of media from internationally and regionally known artists. With that in mind we selected:


Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico, Melannie Anne Herzog Biography of an African-American sculptor who lived through various political and social movements

http://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Catlett-American-Lawrence-Artists/dp/0295985453/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284222804&sr=8-1

Celebrating “Looking Ahead”, we will show the DVD Five African American Artists at 1:30 p.m. before our regular 2:30 meeting Painter Charles White, painter Romare Bearden, sculptor Richard Hunt, sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud, and painter, collage artist and Director of the MOMA Art School in Harlem, Betty Blayton

http://www.amazon.com/Five-African-American-Artists-1971/dp/B001GPOTV4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1289922865&sr=1-1

ALSO: Camille Brewer, Curator of the "Looking Ahead" exhibit at the Museum of Art, will be speaking to us via conference phone during the meeting.