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National Arts and Humanities Month~ October 11

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Will You Forget Me by Emma Amos

1991 / Acrylic on canvas with fabric collage and African fabric borders
65″x45″ / Emma Amos/Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY

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National Arts and Humanities Month~ October 10

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Etta Cone and Claribel Cone

The profits from the family’s textile business provided the sisters with a lifelong allowance that insured their financial independence and funded their many purchases. In Paris, the Cone sisters met Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse and began to collect their works when modern art was still not widely known, let alone appreciated. The sisters’ adventurous spirit in collecting over the next forty years resulted in the formation of one of the most important collections of modern art in America. Eventually, the women gave about 3,000 works of art to the [Baltimore Museum of Art], where they may be seen today. They also donated 242 artworks to the Weatherspoon.
FROM Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

1941 / Front room, Claribel Cone’s apartment / Marlborough Apartments, Baltimore, MD

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National Arts and Humanities Month~ October 3

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“Art That Inspires Us to Vote”

Illustrations by Mai Ly Degnan, Rudy Gutierrez, Anita Kunz, Tim O’Brien, Whitney Sherman, and Yuko Shimizu

One of the most famous American painters and illustrators, Norman Rockwell produced pithy artwork to promote democracy and civic engagement in his time. Now, a museum in Massachusetts dedicated to him asked artists to design “get out the vote” posters for 2020.
Source: The Norman Rockwell Museum wants you to vote, and recruited top illustrators to inspire you – CNN

“The Unity Project is an art and civics initiative of the Norman Rockwell Museum and contemporary illustrators that is dedicated to an inclusive America in which all voices are heard.
Inspired by the rich and continuing tradition of American illustration, this project inspires us to consider the integral role that published imagery plays in creating cultural narratives which connect us to our times.”  ~The Unity Project

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