{"id":9581,"date":"2017-02-03T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:21:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T18:21:44","slug":"20th-century-african-american-art-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/20th-century-african-american-art-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Century African-American Art Exhibition Launches in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/20th-century-african-american-art-exhibition\/art-exhibit-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9601 noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9601 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Art-Exhibit-Opening-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"African-American Art Exhibition\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Art-Exhibit-Opening-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Art-Exhibit-Opening-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Art-Exhibit-Opening-791x1024.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>In celebration of African-American\u00a0History Month, don\u2019t miss this extraordinary African-American art exhibition featuring works by renowned artists Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Charles Bibbs, Elizabeth Catlett, Jonathan Green, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Dane Tilghman, and more at the SPC St. Petersburg\/Gibbs\u00a0Campus.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition centers around the themes of civil rights, education, family and music. Throughout the 20th century, many African-American artists responded to the struggle for freedom and civil rights, and the need to preserve African-American family life and culture, by producing works that spoke to these issues, often challenging the social and political order.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibition dates; opening reception Feb. 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/20th-century-african-american-art-exhibition\/art-exhibit-elizabeth-catlett-new-generation\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9661\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Art-Exhibit-Elizabeth-Catlett-New-Generation-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"African-American Art Exhibition\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Art-Exhibit-Elizabeth-Catlett-New-Generation-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Art-Exhibit-Elizabeth-Catlett-New-Generation.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>The exhibition will run Feb. 4 to March 4, 2017, at the St. Petersburg\/Gibbs Campus Music Center. An opening reception will be held on Sat., Feb. 4 from 1 &#8211; 5 p.m. at the Music Center with art collectors, Drs. James Stewart and Caryl Sheffield, leading a discussion beginning at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A $10 donation benefiting the St. Petersburg Chapter of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, Inc. (ASALH) is suggested. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admission is FREE for SPC students and children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition and reception are co-sponsored by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc. (ASALH), St. Petersburg College and the St. Petersburg College Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of African-American\u00a0History Month, don\u2019t miss this extraordinary African-American art exhibition featuring works by renowned artists Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Charles Bibbs, Elizabeth Catlett, Jonathan Green, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Dane Tilghman, and more at the SPC St. Petersburg\/Gibbs\u00a0Campus. The exhibition centers around the themes of civil rights, education, family and music. Throughout the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/20th-century-african-american-art-exhibition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20th Century African-American Art Exhibition Launches in February<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1111,"featured_media":9621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13414,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions\/13414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}