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LJAC BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF Ernest White, Board Chair William Eustace, Frank Brown Dr. Kam Ching Leung Gary Foster Arvin Fraizer Brad D. Van de Lune Neville Murray,
For more information please call (402) 502-5291
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2nd Annual African American Art |
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Online Exhibitions "African American Quilts from the Robert and Helen Cargo Collection," past exhibitions Click a photo for more infomation
"Anonymous" African American Portraits
“Dinner at Aunt Connie’s” Jazz Musician Icons
Rudy Smith "In Our Own Image"
Bernard Stanley Hoyes "Lamentations & Celebrations"
“Islands of Spirits
Juried Nebraska Art Educators Exhibition
African American
1st Annual African American
2nd Annual African American
"Flight For Freedom" The Tuskegee Airmen
Courage Under Fire
A League of Our Own: The story of Negro league Baseball
Art from the Street
Social Groups "Elegance, Class & Circumstance"
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2nd Annual African American Art
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This exhibition is the second annual African American invitational art exhibition featuring over twenty local and regional artists rangeing in age from 18 to 80. The works represented showcase the diversity and scope of the artwork being create today in the African American community. Exhibition Description The term African American art means different things to different people. For some the term designates a largely racial phenomenon, describing all artistic products—paintings, sculptures, graphic arts, crafts, architecture, etc.—created by North Americans of African descent. For others the preceding definition fails to take into account the cultural, in addition to the racial, implications of the term. For this latter group African American art refers to the artistic and visual products not just of North Americans of African descent but of many peoples whose work has been shaped thematically, stylistically, formally, and theoretically by the confluence of black Atlantic cultures—folkways and traditions formed as a result of the TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE and further developed during alternating periods of colonialism, emancipation, discrimination, and self-assertion. For our purposes the concept of African American art moves freely between these two definitions, providing viewers to this exhibit with both the breadth of such an idea and the possibilities for an object-centered and culturally informed definition.
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