Wini McQueen
| ụdịekere | nwanyị  |
|---|---|
| mba o sị | Njikota Obodo Amerika |
| aha enyere | Wini |
| aha ezinụlọ ya | McQueen |
| aha pseudonym | Akissi |
| ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya | 1943 |
| Ebe ọmụmụ | Neptune Township |
| ọrụ ọ na-arụ | omenkà, quilter |
| ebe agụmakwụkwọ | Howard University |
| omenkà faịlụ na | Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library |
Wini "Akissi" McQueen (amụrụ n'afọ 1943) bụ ónyé America na-emepụta akwa akwa nke bi na Macon, Georgia. Ihe osise ya na-agụnye ihe eji eji aka na-acha anụnụ anụnụ na akwa akụkọ. Usoro ya màkà akwa akwa ya a ma ama gụnyere usoro nnyefe ihe oyiyi. N'ọrụ ya, ọ na-ekwu màkà okwu gbásárá agbụrụ, ọkwa, ọha mmadụ, na ụmụ nwanyị. E gosipụtara uwe elu ya n'ọtụtụ ihe ngosi nka, gụnyere Museum of African American Folk Art, Taft Museum, Bernice Steinbam Gallery, na William College Art Museum.[1] N'afọ 2020, e gosipụtara uwe elu ya n'ihe ngosi a raara nye nka akwa ya na Museum of Arts & Sciences na Macon, GA.[2]
| ụdịekere | nwanyị |
|---|---|
| mba o sị | Njikota Obodo Amerika |
| aha enyere | Wini |
| aha ezinụlọ ya | McQueen |
| aha pseudonym | Akissi |
| ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya | 1943 |
| Ebe ọmụmụ | Neptune Township |
| ọrụ ọ na-arụ | omenkà, quilter |
| ebe agụmakwụkwọ | Howard University |
| omenkà faịlụ na | Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library |
Mbido ndụ na agụmakwụkwọ
dezieA mụrụ McQueen na 1943 na Neptune Township, New Jersey.[3] Ọ tolitere na Durham, North Carolina. Ọ gàrà Mahadum Howard, gụsịrị akwụkwọ na 1968, ma bírí na Washington, DC.[1][4]
Ọrụ
dezieOde nke McQueen dere màkà Edmund bụ nsọpụrụ nye ohu South Carolina Edmund G. Carlisle, onye kụziiri onwé ya ịgụ na ide. Akpụkpọ ahụ na-acha ọbara ọbara, na-acha ọcha, na-anụnụ anụnụ na-agụnye akụkọ ederede sitere n'aka ndị bụbu ndị ohu na daguerreotypes nke ndị ohu e sere foto na 1850 na ubi South Carolina. Ihe osise geometric nke akwa ahụ sitere n'ike mmụọ nsọ nkè akwa ọdịda anyanwụ Afrịka. McQueen na-ezo aka n'ọrụ ya dị ka "urban kente".[5]
Onyinye na Nkwado
dezie- Two-time recipient of the Georgia Council for the Arts Award.[1]
- Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Grant, documenting the narrative traditional of textiles in the Ivory Coast.[1] McQueen expressed the value of such experiences in an interview with Macon Magazine, "I watched the sun set behind Mount Korogo in rural northern Cote d’Ivoire while the women prepared their bobbins for spinning work the next day – that’s my real resume. That’s the meat of it.” [6]
- Curated two large-scale exhibits – one in Macon, one in Africa – documenting crafts in African-American communities.[6]
Edensibia
dezie- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 (1998) "Part IV: Telling Lives as Transformation", in Bell-Scott: Flat-Footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives, 1st, New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-1-4668-5763-6.
- ↑ Museum of Arts and Sciences (August 11, 2020). The Covering: Retrospective Celebrating the Art of Wini McQueen. www.masmacon.org. Retrieved on August 11, 2020.
- ↑ Wahlman (1993). Signs and Symbols: African Images in African-American Quilts, 1st, New York: Studio Books, 6–7. ISBN 978-0-525-93688-6.
- ↑ Barnes (May 17, 2015). Artist Winnie McQueen talks about her work at the Tubman Museum. Rolling Out.
- ↑ Pelaez (April 13, 2015). Weaving History in Wini McQueen's "Ode to Edmund". High Art Connect. Archived from the original on November 10, 2015. Retrieved on July 2, 2022.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Macon Magazine. Macon Magazine.