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Art Speaks: A Push for Social Justice throughout History

By lisacrone
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    Meta Warrick Fuller

    Sculptor, painter, poet working during the Harlem Renaissance
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    Aaron Douglas

    Practicing artist during the Harlem Renaissance
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    William H. Johnson

    Artist working during this time.
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    Lois Mailou Jones

    Painter and teacher during and beyond Harlem Renaissance.
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    World War I

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    Jacob Lawrence

    Painter depicting African-American life.
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    Harlem Renaissance

    A new Black cultural identity of art, literature, and lifestyle celebrated.
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    Moneta Sleet Jr.

    Photographer during the Civil Rights Movement
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    ARTIST/ACTIVIST/EDUCATOR OF FOCUS: BENNY ANDREWS

    Born in Plainview, Georgia
    Worked in New York City since 1958
    Self-taught from a young age before attending the School of Art Institute of Chicago.
    His father was a self-taught artist
    Artist, painter, teacher, printmaker, activist
    "He was raised in a family of readers and storytellers,
    and like all of his siblings, he was encouraged to write
    stories" (Moore and Reynolds, 1999, p. 27).
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    World War II

  • Archives of Benny Andrews Estate (1940-2006)

    Archives of Benny Andrews Estate (1940-2006)

    Housed at Emory University's Rose Library.
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    Benny Andrews attends the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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    Civil Rights Movement

    Dated: Brown v. Board of Education to President Johnson signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.
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    Benny Andrews - Educator - Taught art education programs to underserved students at Queens College for twenty-nine years (Andrews and D.C., 2010, p. 524).

  • Benny Andrews - Social Justice - Co-founder of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) formed in the late 1960s.

  • Benny Andrews teaches art in prison in the 1970s.

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    Benny Andrews - Director of visual arts for the National Endowment for the Arts

  • Benny Andrews Returned to his studio and teaching

  • Benny Andrews' art is used to facilitate students' creation of stories within their own families

    Benny Andrews' art is used to facilitate students' creation of stories within their own families

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    Benny Andrews continues to illustrate children's books.

    These children's book honor the lives of social activists/civil rights leaders...such as Langston Hughes, W.W. Law, and John Lewis.
  • The Hickory Chair

    The Hickory Chair

    Illustrated by Benny Andrews done in 1999
  • Benny Andrews' Grandmother's Dinner

    Benny Andrews' Grandmother's Dinner

    Used to discuss "Sense of Place" (Love and Goldberg, 2003, p. 31-32).