Carrie Mae Weems is a very well-known American artist who works with various forms of art that include text, fabric and other types of material. Although, Weems is best known for her photography on serious issues that focus on African Americans in today’s society, her work of arts depicts racism, gender relation, and personal identity of Afro-Americans. She was and still is a voice for black artists and was known for being against the exclusion of black females portrayed in popular art. Weems was the second of seven children to Mr. Myrlie and Mrs. Carrie Weems. She was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1953. At the age of 16 she gave birth to her first and only daughter named Faith C. Weems. Early on in life Weems decided to study modern dance with
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
Betty Marion White was born on January 17, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois. She is the only child of Horace and Tess White, an electrical engineer and a house wife. At the age of two her and her family moved to Los Angeles. Betty White graduated from Beverly Hills High School California, in 1939 at 17. Betty started modeling they same year she graduated.
How does one embrace the message and soul of artwork when you can’t get passed the color of skin in the portraits? Two barrier breaking retrospective artists born with more than 2,899 miles between them have beat down the walls in the art world opening up endless opportunities for female artist today. Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson specialize in catching the viewer’s eye and penetrating their feelings towards issues of culture, politics, equality, and feminism. It is well established that these woman specialize in identifying problems in their artwork, both artists seem to struggle with not being able to avoid the ignorant eye of stereotyping because they use African American Models in their artwork. Carrie Mae Weems doesn’t see her artwork
Mae Carol Jemison is on the lookout! She is wanted for being the FIRST African American female astronaut to be admitted into NASA space program. Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama on October 17, 1956. Her family included of her mother who was an elementary school teacher, her father who worked as a roofer and carpenter, her sister Ada who became a child psychiatrist, and finally her brother Charles who was a real estate broker. Mae has worked in the NASA Space Program in the USA but other careers she has pursued include a medical doctor, physician, chemical engineer, teacher, and a scientist . She had obtained her M.D in 1981 after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, but after that she had followed her dream of being an astronaut
Barbara Pierce, was born on June 8, 1925, in New York City, to Pauline and Marvin Pierce. She had two brothers and one sister.
Katharine Dexter McCormick grew up in a family of wealth and power and was a graduate of MIT. Margaret Sanger was a daughter of immigrants and grew up poor. She worked as a nurse in Manhattan, New York. They were trying to help low income women who didn't know about contraceptives or afford them. Birth control contributed to less, lower income women passing due to self-induced abortions, complications from having multiple pregnancies, or just dying in childbirth.
Ella Blake was born on May 4th, 2004 ( also known as Star Wars Day, May the Forth be with you.) in Rensselaer, Indiana. She first realized she had a gift for music when her sister, Ruby Blake, was in 6th grade and joined band. Ruby joined band and started playing the clarinet. Ella was only 7 or 8 at the time due to her sister being 4 years older, but Ruby introduced Ella to the instrumental world. She would ask Ella's opinion on how she was doing on a song and Ella would have to listen to her sister play and try to find sounds she didn't think we're supposed to be there. Around 3 years later Ruby entered high school and quit band, instead of doing marching band, but Ella's Older brother joined band that year. He plays
As a self-proclaimed catalyst for change, Shirley Chisholm broke down barriers within the American political system. Only seven years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, Chisholm entered the 1972 presidential race as a candidate for the Democratic Party. This timing made her the first woman to run for the Democratic nomination, as well as the first African American to run for the presidency. Chisholm sought to break down the American presidency – an office traditionally held by white, privileged men. As Chisholm herself described, she “‘ran because somebody had to do it first’” (Winslow 107). This boldness paved the way for many, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – the Democratic nominee in the 2016 presidential election.
Carrie Amelia Nation, previously Carrie Amelia Moore, was born on November 25, 1846, in Garrard County, Kentucky. Carrie was raised on a farm where she had to be tough, working in the fields, wrestling with her siblings, helping
Shirley Chisolm was born Shirley Anita St. Hill on November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York to parents Charles St. Hill and Ruby Seale. Chisolm was raised by her grandmother in Barbados and returned to the United States during her early adolescent years. From an early age, Chisolm was taught the importance of an excellent education. Subsequently, Chisolm graduated from high school and decided to further her education.
Harriet Boyd Hawes was one of the first women archaeologist from the United States. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 11, 1871. Boyd Hawes is known in the archaeology world for her findings in Greece on the island of Crete. She is a very important person in archaeology because of what she was able to accomplish as a women at the turn of the 20th century. Harriet Boyd Hawes to accomplish a lot in her personal life, professional live and paved the way for women in archaeology.
On November 1, 2016 Maryville University had the honor to welcome Rachel Miller; she is a holocaust survivor and she shared her story with us. Miller was born in Poland of 1938, she is the youngest out of four children. She had two brothers and a sister. Her sister Sabine was her idol and she always looked up to her. Rachel and her family was born Jewish. Miller showed photos that her family had taken together and she named almost everyone in those photos. Her father moved them to Paris because he did not want to serve in Poland army. Once her family moved to Paris her happy childhood began to fade. Her father and uncle was the first to be taken to the concentration camps. They were allowed visitors so her mother insisted her father three times a week. One December 28 when Rachel sister, mom, and herself went to
Dorothy Irene Height was a female, African-American educator, civil rights and women’s rights activist. There are many reasons why we should acknowledge her history; such as the fact that she had a fine impact on Women’s rights, as well as African-American rights in the United States. Height was a longtime president of the NCNW. She fought her entire life to expand the rights of, and equality of both Women and African-Americans. During 1937, Height was an organizer of Martin Luther King Jr’s famed March on Washington, standing close to King as he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, afterward noting that the event was an “eye-opener”.
What is it like to live a life with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with this disorder can be vindictive, selfish, cunning person. They do not care who is harmed or hurt. Abigail was the leader of all of the girls that were seen dancing and calling on evil spirits. Abigail would threaten the girls by saying if they said anything, she would kill or harm them severely. She wanted what she couldn’t have, so that made her psychologically unstable. Abigail William’s would be convicted in today’s court because she gave many threats to kill the girls who were with her the night they were dancing if they spoke up in court, her behavior caused harm to many even though she may not have physically done damage herself and due to previous court cases, some people diagnosed with Narcissism were found innocent due to their mental instability but others were guilty because they were mentally unstable. As it is shown, Narcissistic Personality Disorder causes her to be selfish, arrogant, dangerous, and obsess over the man she could not have, because Abigail threatened the girls she was with the night they were dancing, to not confess to anything in court.
Carrie Mae Weems is an eclectic artist dedicated to exploring the themes of family, gender, racism, and class in America. Although she is well known in the creative community for her revolutionary photography series, she is also an award-winning artist who has worked with textiles, video, and more. Lorna Simpson is an innovative, multimedia artist who revolutionized the art world with her introduction of photography installations featuring text. Her work explored stereotypes of race and gender, most often with an emphasis on African American women.