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Still, the art world has been historically male and white-dominated. The Black Arts Movement – the visual arm of the Black Power Movement – was mostly run by men.Even female-led groups using ...
Stained-glass artist JoKeeta Johnson shows a piece depicting Ruby Bridges — the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana — at her Clermont ...
For nearly 150 years, a stained-glass window portraying Jesus and three biblical women as Black hung at St. Mark’s, an 1830 Greek Revival church in Warren, Rhode Island.It’s said to be the ...
(The Conversation) — A stained-glass window, which shows Jesus as a Black man for the first time, tells a story not only of race but of gender, class and ethnicity.
A long-overlooked stained glass window created for a small Rhode Island church 147 years ago has been identified as a historic, first-of-its-kind depiction of Jesus as a Black man. The work of the ...
Stained glass has been on an incredible journey from the luminous and the numinous to the condescendingly humorous — but it hasn’t all been in one direction.