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John Biggers of Gastonia is the state's premier African American muralist. A Texas resident since 1949, he helped found Texas Southern's art department and taught there until he retired in 1983.
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John Biggers, painter, sculptor, and the state's premier Afro-American muralist, is honored for his 55-year career by an exhibition of his works at the North Carolina Museum of Art.
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Victor Ekpuk's new mural at the North Carolina Museum of Art was commissioned to augment the museum’s expanded African art gallery. Rendered in white chalk on a black wall, Ekpuk's symbolic composition forms an abstracted figure wrapping long arms around the perimeter. The mural’s meaning reflects the current social-political climate in America, but can be interpreted several ways.
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The author gives the life of Selma Burke (1900-1995) trailblazing Black female sculptor.