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SUMMARY:International Artist Ben Jones in Fayetteville
DESCRIPTION:NATIONAL BLACK ART EXHIBITIONS AT ELLINGTON-WHITE CONTEMPORARY\nAND ROSENTHAL ART GALLERY FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY \nJANUARY 15 – FEBRUARY 29\, 2020 \nEllington-White Contemporary Art Gallery in collaboration with Fayetteville State University\nRosenthal Gallery and The National Conference of Artists North Carolina Chapter will present a\nNational Black Art Exhibition that explores New Media Abstraction and Identity Politics: in\ntraditional and contemporary Black Visual Art\, from January 15 – February 29\, 2020. Opening\nreceptions on Saturday\, January 18 th from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at both locations. \nNew Media Abstraction is defined as a contemporary aesthetic used to examine\, interrogate and\nre-imagine dominate cultural narratives of Black experiences across the Diaspora and\ncontemporary artists exploring a wide range of traditional and nontraditional materials from a\nvariety of sources. Looking for works that infuses elements of technology\, music and pop culture\,\nscience fiction\, magical realism\, historical fantasy and is effective in helping visual artists’\narticulate new subjectivities as well as new realities. Exhibiting artists will be asked to freely\ninterpret the various ideas discussed within the theme. \nThis national exhibition will feature works of art from The National Conference of Artists and The\nNational Alliance of Artists from Historically Black Colleges and Universities with works by Ben\nJones\, Peggy Blood\, David C. Driskell\, Willis Bing Davis\, John Biggers\, Margaret T. Burroughs\,\nShirley Woodson\, Charlie Johnson\, Louise M. Johnson\, Lee Ransaw Dwight Smith and Robert J.\nStull are a few of the over thirty-six exhibiting artists from across the country. The exhibition will\nfeature a wide range of artistic creativity centered on the Black Aesthetic. \nInternationally recognized artist Ben Jones will be the featured guest lecturer for this exhibition\non February 7 and 8 at FSU and Ellington-White. \nBen Jones is an American artist with a great interest in Cuba\, where he is well known and has had\nseveral major exhibits. "Jones has made over fifty cultural exchange visits to Cuba since the\nnineteen-seventies\, and is noted by the Granma International of Havana\, Cuba as one of the\nmost important African-American artists of his generation." For nearly five decades\, Jones'\nmultimedia installations have reflected his travel and research in Africa\, Europe\, South America\,\nUnited States and the Caribbean to include the Museum of Modern Art (New York\, NY)\, Studio\nMuseum of Harlem (New York\, NY) and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Havana\, Cuba) to name\na few. He has received numerous grants and awards including two National Endowment for the\nArts grants (2007 and 1974-75)\, The Puffin Foundation 2005) and The Joan Mitchell Foundation\ngrant (2002) among many others. \nJones has lectured at universities\, museums and cultural institutions worldwide including\,\nHarvard University (Cambridge\, MA)\, Howard University (Washington\, DC)\, Savannah College of\nArt and Design (Savannah\, GA)\, Wilfredo Lam Center (Havana\, Cuba) and University of Ghana\n(Accra\, Ghana) to name a few. \nJones will present series of lectures to FSU art majors and the general public on February 7\, 2020. \nThe National Conference of Artists\, founded in 1959\, is devoted to the preservation\, promotion\,\nand furtherance of African and African American culture\, and the creative forces of the artists\nthat emanate from the African World experience.  The NCA proudly proclaims its existence as the\noldest African American visual arts advocacy organization in the United States. Its members\ninclude artists\, educators\, scholars\, exhibitors\, art distributors\, art collectors\, and gallery owners\,\nmuseum personnel and supporters of African and African American art and culture.  It has\nnational chapters in many large urban areas of the country. The newest chapter is the North\nCarolina Chapter located here in Fayetteville. \nDr. Lee A. Ransaw\, then Dean of Arts & Letters\, and Chair of the Fine Arts Department\, along\nwith Lamar Wilson\, Director of the Ruth Hall Hodges Art Gallery\, envisioned the National Alliance\nof Artists from HBCUs during the summer of 1999 on the campus of Morris Brown College in\nAtlanta\, Georgia. NAAHBCU’s mission statement defines the purpose of the organization is to\nbring Art and Art Education to the forefront of member institutions and to keep these programs\nas institutional priorities for generations to come. The Alliance is committed to developing in its\nmember and especially students\, the artistic and life skills needed to function as literate citizens\nin the society of today and in the future. The NAAHBCU also exists to provide comprehensive\nactivities that offer artistic and expressive opportunities for professional artists employed or\nformerly employed at member institutions as well as for historians and curators\, collectors\, and\nfriends of the arts. \nFor more information contact Dwight Smith\, Assistant Professor of Visual Art and Director of the\nRosenthal Gallery\, Fayetteville State University at 910-672-1795.
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