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Wadsworth Jarrell. Revolutionary, 1972. Screenprint.
Private Collection. Courtesy of the artist and Lusenhop
Fine Art
“David and I had the great pleasure
of traveling to London for the opening
parties and lectures,” says Anderson.
“The Jarrells were among the dozens of
exhibiting artists and collectors from
the United States. We were honored to
loan several artworks, most notably our
collection of 1970s screen prints by the
artists of AFRICOBRA (African Commune
of Bad Relevant Artists), the pioneering
artist collective that the Jarrells cofounded
in Chicago in 1968.” The exhibit
was a huge success and traveled to five
American museums before ending its tour
in Houston in last August.
On Thursday, January 21 at 7 pm, the
Library will host an online art talk with
David Lusenhop and Jae and Wadsworth
Jarrell. Lusenhop will interview the
Jarrells about the important moments
in their six-decade careers, including
their two-person exhibition Heritage:
Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell, which opened
at the Cleveland Museum of Art in late
2017.
For more information and resources
related to African-American art and
artists, please visit the Main Library
Reference Desk or check out a copy of the
book, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of
Black Power.
@ Shaker Library
’70s. Some were already
part of the canon of Black
art history, including
Romare Bearden, Elizabeth
Catlett, Faith Ringgold,
and Charles White. Many
other artists, whose works
were often excluded from
mainstream museum exhibitions,
are now receiving
the critical attention they
deserve.
According to Shaker
Library’s Stacie Anderson,
two years before the exhibit
opened, Tate Modern curator
Mark Godfrey contacted her
partner, David Lusenhop,
to ask if he could use
Lusenhop’s extensive archive
that documents 20thcentury
African American
art history for research for
the upcoming exhibition.
Godfrey also asked
Lusenhop to provide an
introduction to Jae and
Wadsworth Jarrell, whose
art would also be part of the exhibit. Jae
Jarrell is a Cleveland-born artist known
for her garments that merge fashion
design with culturally-specific references
to the African American community.
Wadsworth Jarrell is a former professor
of art at the University of Georgia
known for his paintings, prints, and
mixed media works that focus of African
American history, politics, and culture.
Book cover for Soul of a Nation: Art in
the Age of Black Power
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