Culture Keepers Art Exhibit 2015
THE PRINCE GEORGE’S AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER IS PROUD TO PRESENT:
CULTURE KEEPERS ART EXHIBIT 2015
At War with Ourselves: The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy
PGAAMCC’s Culture Keepers at CVPA, Suitland High School and Northwestern High School, VPA, collaborated with the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center to create art work in conjunction with the Center’s At War with Ourselves: The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy poetry project. Culture Keepers worked with PGAAMCC educators and artists to research the historical content of the poem and later create art based on their research.
The video art and quilt interprets the poem The Battle of and for the Black Face by Nikky Finney. The poem expresses the African American male experience in the U.S.
The poem also explores the African American presence in the Civil War and offers a focused and uncensored gaze at what tore our nation apart; racially and culturally, past and present.
Art Projects:
- Video Art Installation
- Mixed Media Quilt
Culture Keepers, Suitland High School:
Students-

Kennedy Kirksey Bryanna Rather
Mary Lane Kenetia Pinkett
Karima Winter Naima Shaw
Janelle Hobbs Yasmin Eubanks
Culture Keepers, Northwestern High School:
Students-
Angeline Kline Georges Ngayap Hatcheu
Summer Judd Destiny Porter-Stephans
Mabel Perez
Program Teacher Liaisons: Teaching Artists:
Maria Salanda Shaymar Higgs
Roxanne France-Woods Paul Grant
Jamea Richmond-Edwards Chanel Compton
Scholar-In-Residence:
Arvenita Washington-Cherry, Ph.D