The Creative Impulse: Antebellum African-American Women Artists

Lisa E. Farrington, PhD - Author and senior art historian at Parson School of Design, New York
• Discussion of how, for centuries, African-American women artists have created an alternative vision of how women of culture can, are and might be represented in American Culture. Drawing from her 2005 book, Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists , Dr. Farrington led the discussion on how utilitarian objects as well as a wide array of fine arts serve up compelling evidence of the fundamental human need to convey one’s life, one’s emotions and one’s experiences on a canvas of one’s own making.