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 Culture Keepers worked with PGAAMCC educators and artists to research the historical content of the poem and later create art based on their research.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:

1. Video Art Installation
2. 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