Africobra - Behind The Canvas at The DuSable

In “Behind the Canvas,” Dr. Carol Adams, cultural arts expert and CEO of the DuSable Museum, leads a discussion with members and protégés of the AfriCOBRA collective about the inspirations behind their incomparable and emotive masterpieces.

Panel members will include:

Rahmaan Statik Barnes

Napoleon Jones-Henderson

Dayo Laoye

Nelson Stevens

Raymond Thomas 

This is a FREE event. For more information, call 773-947-0600 ext. 254.

Source- DuSable Museum

Art..Flow...and Impact N2 the Next Dimension..Africobra In Chicago at the DuSable Museum

Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free… by Carolyn Lawrence

From the moment I read the words in this  most colorful painting…

Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free… 

I could hear the drum  beating out the ritmos...

Rhythms of freedom…with colors bouncing out the flow of happy thoughts….and energy....

Can a painting change your mind? 

Can it give you hope like good song on the radio… does?  

Can a painting make you want to dance to a happy  funky beat? 

I think so. 

I could feel the drummer in this painting by Carolyn Lawrence...

From the moment I read the words in this  most colorful painting…

Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free… 

I could hear the drum  beating out the

Rhythms of freedom…

with colors bouncing beats into a flow of sound….
Flowing in a African 6/4 time…

Do da Dat Doo Dat Da!…..
Do da Dat Doo Dat Da!

I could almost hear vocals being sung by Maya Angelou in a prose…voice…

Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free… 

Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free…

Black Children Keep Your Spirits Free…

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AFRICOBRA Artist talk...at the DuSable Museum tonite!

Thursday, August 8, 2013

7:00pm – 9:00pm

In this gallery talk, Arlene “Arty” Crawford, the curator of 

AFRICOBRA: Art and Impact, highlights featured masterpieces in the exhibition and discusses the members of the AfriCOBRA collective in Chicago and the subsequent incarnations of the group as it began to move beyond Chicago to the rest of the United States. 

Arlene is a practicing visual artist with a commitment to community and activism. She is an Executive Board member of the African American Arts Alliance and a founding member of the Sutherland Community Arts Initiative and Sapphire & Crystals, a collective of African American women artists.

AFRICOBRA: Art and Impact explores works produced by the artist collective AFRICOBRA, formed in 1968 on the South Side of Chicago. Still in existence today, AFRICOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) worked to make African-American art something unique in society, using different techniques to display aspects of blackness in their artwork.  
Source-DuSable Museum