African-American Experience
Featured Work
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Mistress Didi - Photojournalism Portrait in Black and White by Judith Oppenheimer
Leatherfest, NYC October 2008 / Everyday Style Avatar / African-American Experience Group Featured / African-American Experience Group Copyright
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I'm going to grandma's... by Tanya Wallace
This is a staged portrait, well not the teddy bear, he always has that, but the suitcase. You can tell by his face that he is just starting to get iritated with me. This is the first one in this series. The second is where he threw his arms up and crossed them and made a mad face at me and the last is where he walked off with his teddy bear, because he was done! October 2008 Featured in African-American Experience group / Novermber 2008 Featured in the Moms4Art group. / Feb. 2009 Featured in Teddy Bears United Group.
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It's good to be domesticated by Rochele Royster
This is a casein on canvas paper painting. It is a picture of a woman who works for others. She reminds me of my grandmother who spent most of her life working in white people’s homes cleaning and cooking.
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Brotherly Love by Tanya Wallace
This is a picture of my 7 year old twin sons. They are not identical but look like they are. They truely are best friends. Sept 2008 Featured, African-American experience group. / October 2008 Featured in the Family Likeness group.
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All I need is my teddy bear by Tanya Wallace
My Teddy Bear by Jacob Wallace (my oldest son :0) My Teddy is my best friend / he goes with me everywhere, / He’s torn and dirty and missing an eye, / but I don’t really care / He’s there for me when I’m happy / and even when I’m sad, / I know he will always love me, / even when I’m bad / We’re friends till the end / I will never let him go, / Even when I’m old and gray, / I’ll have my bear to show. Nikon D80, 55-200mm lens, auto focus August 2008.. Featured in Candid Photographs of Friends & Family group. / September 2008… Featured in Live, Love, Dream group. / September 2008.. Featured in African-American Experience group.
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Sisters by Rochele Royster
They were sisters. The oldest was shorter and smarter. The younger of the two was taller and shaped like her father, thin and wiry. Only 16 months separted the two…but they could never quite get along. She loved her sister and would do anything for her but deep down she really didn’t like her very much and she would smile inside when she failed. Casein Paint on Canvas Paper (25”x 34”) Original for sale
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Her name was Bug by Rochele Royster
My grandmother had ten sisters and when I was seven she told me this story. It was apparent at an early age that the oldest of the daughters had a special talent. She was an excellent seamstress and could make beautiful dresses from simple materials. At the age of fifteen she left the family farm and moved to the city. She soon found a job as a seamstress at a small shop. In the city, she discovered a newfound freedom and because she inherited her father’s milky skin and her mother’s jet black wavy hair she soon realized that she could easily pass as white. A year later she married and five children soon followed. She never returned home to the family farm and stopped all contact with her family except an occasional letter at Christmas. In her new life she had found something…and she did not want to add the dark black blemish of her identity to her new white life. Somewhere, I have five cousins who have no idea there mother is a black woman, with roots and family rich in heritage and culture, born on a faraway farm in a not so faraway land. Her name was Bella but everyone called her Bug. Casein Paint and prisma color on canvas Original for sale (Red Frame and gold mat)
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Dreamscape 2 (I ran to the river...it was boiling) by Rochele Royster
This is an acrylic painting on canvas. It was created in response to a Nina Simone song, Sinner Man. In the song, a sinner man runs to the river but its boiling. He also runs to the rock, the Lord, and the sea but no one can hide or help him. So he finally runs to the Devil who is waiting for him.
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Recent Work
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Jazz Miles Davis 16 by Yuriy Shevchuk
watercolour on paper / 70×44 cm / www.shevchukart.com
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HERE AND THERE by Caroline Evans (caux)
CAROLINE CAUX-EVANS COPYRIGHT DEC 2009 / FROM BROCELIANDE AREA
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Bird of Paradise by Philip Gresham
Acrylic on 300lb cold press drawing paper, 24×30in.
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PEACEFULL ROOM by Caroline Evans (caux)
CAROLINE CAUX-EVANS COPYRIGHT / DEC 2009 STYLLLYFE / PAINTING / FROM ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH SCENE TAKEN IN BROCELIANDE / BRITTANY
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The football player by LTScribble
This is a commission work I started last night and finished about 10 mins ago….....I hope they like it
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BLUES by Caroline Evans (caux)
CAROLINE CAUX-EVANS COPYRIGHT DEC 2009 / STYLLLYFE / IN BROCELIANDE BRITTANY
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BLUE DREAM by Caroline Evans (caux)
CAROLINE CAUX-EVANS COPYRIGHT 2009 DEC / /
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Cubist Woman by Philip Gresham
Wacom Intuos pad, Adobe Illustrator, Painter X.
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Writing
Acrostic Poem
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I began to write a poem about creativity being stolen and it manifested into this…still trying to decipher it all myself..one love.
About This Group
The African-American experience is inseparable from the development of the United States. Black Americans fought in the American Civil War under the 54th Massachusetts Regiment to valiantly protecting American Airmen as the “Red Tails,” Tuskegee Airmen. Black Culture, although many times denigrated in American society has always brought forth its best in the richness of writing, music, art, dance and the sweat, blood, and toil of American Black men and women.
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