Assignment: On the web, please look at images of works by African Americans, and choose
one work which, in your perception, shows an influence of African aesthetics or an African
artistic tradition, for example, the mask.
Power Point Presentation: choose one work you find 1) compelling, 2) intriguing, or 3) beautiful, or a combination of these. Please put this image on power point, and say your responses to the following queries in your presentation.
19th Century: African House, Melrose Plantation/Louisiana, Harriet Powers and/or African America
Quilting Tradition, Joshua Johnston, Dave the Potter-South Carolina, American Face Vessel--attributed to
African-American Slave Potters/Smithsonian, Underground Railroad Quilts, Emancipation Proclamation
Walking Cane/Brooklyn Museum, Edward Michael Bannister, Edmonia Lewis, Sweetgrass Coiled
Baskets/South Carolina
20th Century: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Horace Pippin, Meta Warrick Fuller, James van deer Zee,
Archibald Motley, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, William E. Artis, Lois Mailou Jones, Sargent Claude
Johnson, Hale Woodruff, Beulah Ecton Woodard, Romare Bearden, Charles White, Augusta Savage,
Richmond Barthe, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Dox Thrash, Faith Ringgold, Alvin D. Loving, Jr.,
Howardina Pindell, Betye Saar, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Jean-Michel Basquit
21st Century: Adrian Piper, Martin Puryear, David Hammons, Carrie Mae Weems, Xenobia Bailey,
David Hammons, Houston Conwill, Alison Saar, Pat Ward Williams, Sam Gilliam, Pierrot Barra, Ben
Jones, Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, and Kerry James Marshall