Samella Lewis

 

Samella Lewis

Samella Sanders Lewis (February 27, 1923 - Mee 27, 2022) bụ onye na-ese ihe nkiri na onye kụkọ ihe mere eme nke America.  Ọ bụ ọrụ nke ọma dị ka onye na- akwụkwọ na onye na-ese ihe.  A na-akpọkwa ya "Nne Nne nke African American Art".  [1] Ọ ƙarin nturu ugo Artist maka mmezu ndụ oge niile site na College Art Association (CAA) na 2021

"Nkà abụghị ihe okomoko dị ka ọtụtụ ndị na-eche - ọ bụ ihe dị mkpa. Ọ na-edekọ akụkọ ihe mere eme - ọ na-enyere aka ịkụziri ndị mmadụ ihe ma na-echekwa ihe ọmụma maka ọgbọ ndị na-abịa. " - Dr. Samella Lewis

Ndụ mmalite na ndabere

Akwụkwọ akụkọ Samella Sanders nyere Samuel Sanders na Rachel Taylor Sanders na New Orleans, Louisiana, na February 27, 1923, na Ponchatoula, Louisiana.  [1] [2] Nna ya nna ọrụ dị ka onye ọrụ ugbo na nne na-arụkwa ọrụ ndị ọzọ dị ka onye ọrụ ụlọ.  [1] N'ịbụ nke e nwere ma chịkọta ya dị ka onye na-ese ihe n'onwe ya, a maara Lewis nke ọma dị ka onye ɔkɔ mere mere eme, onye nkatọ, na onye nchịkọta nkà, nkà ndị Africa.  -Amerika.  Lewis mezuru ogo anɔ, ihe nkiri ise, akwụkwọ asaa, na nnukwu ọrụ nka nke eserese vidiyo dị egwu.  Ọ gbasoro nzere nka na-amalite na Mahadum Dillard na 1941, mana akara Dillard maka Hampton Institute na Virginia, nwetara akara ugo ojiji nna ya ukwu na 1947. O akara akara ugo akara BA ya na Mahadum Hampton, wee gụchaa nna ya ukwu na doctorate.  na okpukpe mere ihe eme nka na okpukpe okpukpe na Mahadum Ohio State na 1951. [3] Lewis bụ onye mbụ Afrịka America nzere doctorate na nka nka na ime nka nka.

Mgbe ọ ọmụmụ akwụkwọ doctorate, Lewis mmemme nkà na steeti Morgan .  [1] Lewis onye isi oche mbụ nke ngalaba nka na Florida A&M University na 1953;  [2] n'otu afọ ahụ Lewis ghọkwara onye Afrịka mbụ nke kpọbatara ogbako mba nke ndị na-ese ihe n'Africa nke emere na Mahadum Florida A&M .  [3] Ọ bụ prọfesọ na State University of New York, California State University, Long Beach, na Scripps College na Claremont, California .  O mebere ya na Bernie Casey, ihe ngosi nka na Los Angeles na 1970. [4] Na 1973, o jere ozi na kọmitii nhọrọ maka ihe ngosi BLACKS: USA: 1973 emere na New York Cultural Center .

Nwa nwa Lewis bụ onye na-ese ihe na onye na-agụ egwu na mpaghara Bay Unity Lewis. Ọ na-ezube ịmepụta ụdị dịkọrọ ndụ nke Samella Lewis's katalọgụ Black Artists on Art, nke na-egosi ndị na-ese ojii na-adịghị egosipụtakarị na nnukwu ụlọ ọrụ nka ma ree ọtụtụ puku akwụkwọ. "Achọrọ m ịme usoro oge nke ndị na-ese ihe nkiri America, na ndị na-ese ihe si n'Africa, iji dee akụkọ ihe mere eme anyị. Ndị ọkọ akụkọ ihe mere eme adịghị eme ya. Ọ dị m ka ọ ka mma ka ndị na-ese ihe na-eme ya na agbanyeghị, site na ihe osise na ederede ... Ọ bụ n'ezie. banyere mmegharị ahụ," Samella Lewis kwuru maka akwụkwọ e bipụtara na 1969 na 1971.

Na 1960-70s, Samella Lewis so na otu ndị na-ese ihe na-ezukọ kwa ọnwa.

Lewis nwere datakọta nka na 1942. Ọ na-anakọta nka site na WPA na Harlem Renaissance .

Ọrụ

Na 1960s na 1970 ọrụ Lewis, nke ndị Lithographs, lincuts, na serigraphs, ndị na-ede akwụkwọ onwe.  N'agbata 1969 na 1970, Lewis na EJ Montgomery bụ ndị maka ihe ngosi "mgbawa ala" na-eme ka mmata maka ihe mere eme na nka nke Afrika America

Lewis bụ onye akara International Review of African American Art na 1975. Na 1976, o hiwere Museum of African-American Art [1] ya na otu nka nka, akwụkwọ, nchekwa na ndị isi obodo na Los Angeles, California.  [2] Ndị na-ekiri a nwewere , yiri nke ahụ, ekiri mmata nsogbu na eze maka nka African American.  Ọtụtụ ndị mmadụ na ụlọ ọrụ, dị ka Macy's, nyere onyinye mmesapụ aka na ụlọ ngosi nka.  [3] Lewis, dị ka onye isi ndị ọrụ na ụlọ ngwere, ọ bụghị naanị ezi ọnụ ọgụgụ dị ukwuu nke ihe ngosi ngwaọrụkwara ụzọ dị iche iche e si ọsọ na eze ihe nka nke America.  N'otu ndị ahụ, ọ tụlere echiche nke "nkà omenala", ma kwue na ụlọ ngosi mgbe ochie nwere ibu ọrụ akara Africa nke nkà ndị America America.  [4] Ndị ji ihe ngosi nka na-arụ na ọrụ na Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza na ndị ọrụ na ndị ọrụ afọ bụ ndị raara onwe ha nye ọrụ ihe ngosi nka.  Lewis kwuru otu oge "nkà nke mkpali" dabere na ndụ nke ndị America n'onwe ha.  [5] Lewis ntọala ntọala ụlọ ihe mgbe ochie atọ ọzọ na Los Angeles, California.

Lewis bụ onye otu NAACP, yana onye nchịkọta nka na nchịkọta ya ndị Africa, Chinese, Asian, South America na ọrụ ndị ọzọ.  E bufere ụfọdụ n'ime ihe nka Lewis chi ntụ na Hampton Institute, ugbu a Mahadum

Na 1984, o mmetụta monograph na onye na-ese ihe Elizabeth Catlett, [1] onye bụbu otu n'ime ndị Lewis na Mahadum Dillard

N'afọ 2012, e ọrụ Lewis n'ụdị ihe osise eserese site na nchịkọta nke ya na Samella Lewis na Ahụhụ America America na Louis Stern Fine Arts na West Hollywood California, California.  Ihe ngosi ahụ sonye na katalọgụ agba zuru oke nwere ederede nke edemede nka na onye nkatọ Suzanne Muchnic.

Na 2015, Unity Lewis na onye ọchụnta ego nka Trevor Parham kere The Legacy Exhibit, nke gosipụtara ọgbọ atọ nke ndị na-ese ihe ọma ojii, gụnyere ndị na-ese ihe n'oge yana ụfọdụ gụnyere na mbụ "Black Artists on Art." Ihe ngosi ahụ malitere mbọ ha na-ewe maka ndị omenkà ojii America 500 isonye na mpịakọta emelitere.

Ndụ onwe na ọnwụ

Lewis akwụkwọ onye akụkụ na Paul Gad Lewis na 1948 wee jiri ụmụ nwoke abụọ.  Ọ nwụrụ na 2013. Ọ nwụrụ site na ikpughe njikọ na ụlọ na Torrance, California, na Mee 27, 2022, mgbe ọ dị afọ 99.

Ihe ngosi

• 1969: Samella Lewis na George Clack, Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles
• 1980: Ihe ngosi Solo, University Union Gallery, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, California
• 1980: Smithsonian Institution njem ngosi, United States na Canada
• 1981: Ihe ngosi Solo, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
• 1981: Ihe ngosi Solo, Mahadum California, San Diego
• 1984: Art African American Art in Atlanta, Public and Corporate Collections, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
• 1984: Ihe ngosi Solo, Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, California
• 2011: Ugbu a gwuo ihe a! : Art na Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
• 2012: Samella Lewis na Ahụmahụ African American, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California

Ihe nrite na nnabata

• 1962: Mmekọrịta Fulbright iji mụọ omenala Asia na Ụlọ Akwụkwọ Mbụ nke Chinese Civilization na Tung Mai University, Taiwan
• 1964-65: National Defence Education Act postdoctoral ibe na Mahadum Southern California, na-amụ asụsụ Chinese na mmepeanya Asia.
• 1993: Charles White Achievement Achievement Award
• 1995: Ihe nrite UNICEF maka nka nka
• 1996-97: Aha ya bụ Ọkà Mmụta Pụrụ Iche site na Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities
• 2003: The History Maker Award
• 2004: Onyinye nnabata ụbọchị pụrụ iche maka ntinye pụtara ìhè sitere na Obodo New Orleans
• 2005: Alumni Association Award si Ohio State University
• 2021: Onyinye omenka pụrụiche maka mmezu ndụ oge niile sitere na Association Art Association

Ọgụgụ ọzọ

• Lewis, Samella S. nka na nka na nka nke America (Berkeley, CA: Mahadum California Press, 1990),  ;  ;  ; 
• Samella S. Lewis; Ruth G. Waddy . Ndị nka ojii na nka (Los Angeles, CA: Ndị mbipụta nka nke oge a, 1969), 

Njikọ mpụga

• Mahadum Delaware: Paul R. Jones Collection
• African American Museum nke Dallas
• Tilford Art Group
• Ihe odide Stuart A. Rose, Archives, na Rare Book Library, Mahadum Emory: Akwụkwọ Samella S. Lewis, 1930-2010
• Louis Stern Fine Arts