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November 2016 Volume 26/ Number 11 • A Monthly Publication by Unite of Southwest Missouri, Inc •
www.unitenewsonline.org Sam Gilliam American (b. 1933)
Museum Acquisition Fund SAM 2002.30 Sam Gilliam is a contemporary African American artist associated with the Washington Color School, a style of painting focused on the process of pouring layers of acrylic paint onto unprimed canvas and letting it soak in. In the late 1960s, Gilliam began experimenting with folding and creasing his canvases, pulling them off the stretcher and draping them on the floor and from the ceiling. These "drape paintings" moved his work from the wall into sculptural, three-dimensional surfaces. His innovations as a painter extend into both sculpture and printmaking. In Ichi (Japanese for “one”), Gilliam uses both traditional and untraditional print processes to experiment with layers of color, shape, and form. The seemingly random and chaotic movement of colors and shapes across the paper relates directly to jazz music. Gilliam cites Miles Davis and John Coltrane as inspirations saying “Before painting, there was jazz. It's something that was important to my work, it was a constant. You listened while you were painting. It made you think that being young wasn't so bad.”
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Springfield NAACP holds elections for new officers Springfield, MO—On November 19, 2016, the election of officers and at-large members of the Executive Committee of the Springfield NAACP will take place at Midtown Carnegie Library 397 E. Central. Polls will open from noon to 4:00pm In order to vote in the Branch election, one must be a member in good standing of the Branch 30 days prior to the election.
Police Officers and High Schools partner to create a theatrical production on issues of Social Justice Elizabeth, NJ — Elizabeth Youth Theater Ensemble, The Office of Youth, and HBO’s Corporate Social Responsibility will implement Walking the Beat: REmixing the Ritual — an on-going arts-in-education residency with students from the Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy from October 18 – December 16, with a community See stor y on page 5
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Ichi #1 1994, monotype with relief painting, screenprint, collage, acrylic and stitching on handmade paper
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November is Native American Heritage Month by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose. One of the very proponents of an American Indian Day was Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca Indian, who was the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. He persuaded the Boy Scouts of America to set aside a day for the "First Americans" and for three years they adopted such a day. In 1915, the annual Congress of the American Indian
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Association meeting in Lawrence, Kans., formally approved a plan concerning American Indian Day. It directed its president, Rev. Sherman Coolidge,
an Arapahoe, to call upon the country to observe such a day. Coolidge issued a proclamation on Sept. 28, 1915, which Continued on page 2
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