Saturday, November 29, 2008

Obama And Art

I wonder what the Obama people will do concerning the visual arts. Black American artists are underserved and under valued in art america. Sad , but true. The Obama children need to see art that looks like them and art made by people who look like them in my opiniion. The White House collection recently added a Jacob Lawrence painting to it's collection, this is a good thing. Jacob Lawrence built an international art career. It's too bad he didn't live long enough to see his work in the White House art collection. Oh yes, Jacob Lawrence is an artist who happens to be black.

1 comment:

Marian Fortunati said...

Check out the upcoming exhibits at this website:
www.penandbrush.org

You might be interested in the first one or at least in trying to see the paintings that will be submitted.

I know I'll be curious.