Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur (2020) Oil on Canvas 20 x 20″ On May 2 1973, Black Panther activist Assata Olugbala Shakur (aka) Joanne Deborah Chesimard, was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police, shot twice and then charged with murder of a police officer. Assata spent six and a half years in prison under brutal circumstances …
Kathleen Cleaver
Kathleen Cleaver (2020) Oil on Canvas20 x 20″ Cleaver recently retired from the Emory University School of Law, which she joined in 1992. She began her lifelong activist work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966, but left the following year to join the Black Panther Party, which was also founded in 1966. …
Frederika Newton
Frederika Newton (2020) Oil on Canvas 20 x 20″ The Huey P. Newton Foundation was started by David Hilliard and Fredrika Newton to develop and sponsor cultural, historical and educational programs and institutions consistant with the theories and teaching of Huey Newton and the philosophy and ideology of the Black Panther Party. Huey P. …
The Beginning of the Tahoe Activist Artists
The helplessness and shock I experienced after the 2016 election triggered a cycle of creativity I haven’t experienced since I was a student. I picked up an old canvas, and started to paint with no clear intention, just an energy. Two hours later, a larger than life Albert Einstein was looking down at me, his …
Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur (2020) Oil on Canvas 20 x 20″ On May 2 1973, Black Panther activist Assata Olugbala Shakur (aka) Joanne Deborah Chesimard, was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police, shot twice and then charged with murder of a police officer. Assata spent six and a half years in prison under brutal circumstances …
Kathleen Cleaver
Kathleen Cleaver (2020) Oil on Canvas20 x 20″ Cleaver recently retired from the Emory University School of Law, which she joined in 1992. She began her lifelong activist work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966, but left the following year to join the Black Panther Party, which was also founded in 1966. …
Frederika Newton
Frederika Newton (2020) Oil on Canvas 20 x 20″ The Huey P. Newton Foundation was started by David Hilliard and Fredrika Newton to develop and sponsor cultural, historical and educational programs and institutions consistant with the theories and teaching of Huey Newton and the philosophy and ideology of the Black Panther Party. Huey P. …
The Beginning of the Tahoe Activist Artists
The helplessness and shock I experienced after the 2016 election triggered a cycle of creativity I haven’t experienced since I was a student. I picked up an old canvas, and started to paint with no clear intention, just an energy. Two hours later, a larger than life Albert Einstein was looking down at me, his …