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Whitfield Lovell

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The Poetry of Black Daily Life in the Art of Whitfield Lovell

Avatar photo by Alexandra M. Thomas December 14, 2021December 14, 2021

Each portrait in Lovell’s current exhibition is a lens through which to consider the complex humanity of Black subjectivity in American history.

Henry Ossawa Tanner's "The Banjo Lesson"
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A New Film Charts 150 Years of African-American Art

by Tanner Tafelski March 12, 2018March 11, 2018

Black Is the Color, a 50-minute documentary, offers a survey of African-American art from 1867 to today.

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Mining Portraits of the Past for Stories of Our Shared Humanity

by Claire Voon December 28, 2016

Whitfield Lovell reinterprets found imagery and references evocative cultural touchstones to add further layers and textures to his drawings and mixed media installations.

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From Flint with Love, Art of the African Diaspora

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli July 2, 2016July 5, 2016

Unlike many notable private art collections that serve the public good only after they have been donated to a museum (or turned into museums of their own), the Mott-Warsh Collection was conceived to fulfill a larger social purpose.

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