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Meta Warrick Fuller
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Aaron Douglas
Practicing artist during the Harlem Renaissance -
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William H. Johnson
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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,
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World War II
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Archives of Benny Andrews Estate (1940-2006)
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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).
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Benny Andrews - Social Justice - Co-founder of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) formed in the late 1960s.
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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
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Benny Andrews Returned to his studio and teaching
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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
Illustrated by Benny Andrews done in 1999 -
Benny Andrews' Grandmother's Dinner
Used to discuss "Sense of Place" (Love and Goldberg, 2003, p. 31-32).
