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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2026-08-29 · 00:07 UTC

"Untitled," Minnie Evans, 1959.

Evans (1892-1987) was a self-taught Black folk artist who didn't begin drawing until she was in her 40s, working at the ticket booth at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, NC.

Inspired by her inner visions, her religious faith, her regard for her ancestors, and her surroundings, she created many intricate images of faces amid flowers and foliage. The faces could be her ancestors, or her version of spiritual guides, or something else altogether.

She once said that her flower paintings were her vision of heaven, dismissing the idea of heaven as white and full of clouds, but instead a joyous garden of rainbow colors.

Her work, which began in the 40s, was in many ways a forerunner to psychedelic art of the 60s and 70s; this would not have been out of place on the wall of a hippie's flat.

From the American Folk Art Museum, New York.

#Art #MinnieEvans #OutsiderArt #VisionaryArt #BlackArtists #WomenArtists #BlackHistory #WomensHistory #AmericanArt #FlowerFriday

#art #minnieevans #outsiderart #visionaryart #blackartists #womenartists

ooOOOoo water deer vvitch @[email protected] · 2026-07-24 · 17:44 UTC

#BlackArtists Cotilda Memorial #CallForArtists

“The memorial will be developed through a collaborative process that will engage the community founded by the Clotilda survivors & other formerly enslaved people: historic #Africatown & the expansive diaspora”

In the artists app ur asked to share a subject connection. Paid, project budget 2mil
Love the community incl! U can also send “inspiration” incl photos & stories -Unsure if paid

https://theclotildamemorial.info/call-for-artists/
#BlackDiaspora #Alabama #CommunityArt

#blackartists #callforartists #africatown #blackdiaspora #alabama #communityart

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-02-04 · 15:15 UTC

#WMPG honors #BlackHistoryMonth

"WMPG recognizes Black History Month with special programming throughout the month of February, highlighting the voices, music, history, and lived experiences of Black artists, activists, and storytellers.

Tune in to hear programs that celebrate Black creativity and resilience across genres and generations, from music that shaped movements to conversations that deepen our understanding of the past and present."

Segments include:
#MarshaPJohnson, #RobertLewis, #EarthaKitt, #MalcomX, #AlvinAiley, #BobGreen, #ChadwickBoseman, #DukeEllington, #LewisLatimer, #AudreLord, #ATribeCalledQuest, #OtisRedding, #NelsonMandela, #GarzaCullorsTometi, #LeslieOdomJr, #NinaSimone, #AudraMcDonald #BelHooks, #Beyonce, #FlorencePrice, #JamesBaldwin, #MuhammadAli, #ScottJoplin, #GraceVenuzaRogers, #BobTheDragQueen, #GordonParks, #KobeBryant, #WEBDubois, #BarackObama, #AudreLorde, #Lizzo, #KatherineJohnson, #ClaudetteColvin, #RhiannonGiddens, #TaranaBurke, #TeresaKachindamoto, #ShirleyChisholm, #ThurgoodMarshall, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrownRusswurm, #StevieWonder, #LeadBelly, #MaryMcleodBethune, #ShirleyChisolm, #LeonardCummings, #MaeJemison, #BadBrains, #CornelWest, #MaconBollingAllen, #SpikeLee, #BeverlyGlennCopeland, #AngelaDavis, #SojournerTruth, #HankAaron, #BillieHoliday, #GeraldTalbot, #TrevorNoah, #JosephineBaker, #JackieRobinson, #ArethaFranklin, #ToniMorrison, #RobertLewis, #IndigoArts