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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

History is Important! So I’m gonna leave this right here!

Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thank you for sharing my month of beauty, strength, and the history that is Black History Month 2025. These artists are amazing!

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Njideka Akunyili Crosby (born 1983) is a Nigerian-born visual artist. Her work bridges aspects between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating collage and photo transfer-based paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Nina Chanel Abney (born 1982) is an American artist and painter who explores race, gender, pop culture, homophobia, and politics in her work. Her style of painting is mostly graphic, cubist, and color blocked paintings and murals.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer. She is best known for her portraits. The dark palette of her work is known for creating a feeling of stillness that keeps her subjects from being associated with a particular decade or time.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Laura Wheeler Waring (1887 – 1948) was an American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still-life, and well-known African American portraitures she made during the Harlem Renaissance.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Jordan Casteel (born 1989) is an American figurative painter. She typically paints portraits of friends and family members as well as neighbors and strangers in Harlem and New York. Throughout her collection the viewer can observe a wealth of colors representing the skin tones of her subjects.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Torkwase Dyson (born 1973) is an interdisciplinary artist. She describes the themes of her work as "architecture, infrastructure, environmental justice, and abstract drawing.” Her work is informed by her own theory of Black Compositional Thought.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Simone Leigh (born 1967) is an American artist working in various media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice. Her work is concerned with the marginalization of women of color and reframes their experience as central to society.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Beulah Ecton Woodard (November 1895 – July 1955) was the first African American sculptor, painter, artist to have a solo exhibition at the LA’s County Museum of Art. She sought to “promote a better understanding of Africa with its rich historical background” and foster pride in Black heritage.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (born June 1877 – March 1968) was an African-American artist who was a protégée of Auguste Rodin, and has been described as "one of the most imaginative Black artists of her generation." Warrick used her platform to address the societal traumas of African Americans.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Augusta Savage (born February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Much of her work was in clay or plaster. She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Betye Saar (born 1926) is an American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Howardena Pindell (born 1943) is an American artist, curator, critic, and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist who uses a wide variety of techniques and materials.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Lorna Simpson (born 1960) is an American photographer and multimedia artist. She continues to explore themes that question the nature of identity, gender, race, history and representation using photography, film, video, painting, drawing, audio, and sculpture.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. Her work in part, centers on the violence and misrepresentation experienced by Black women in contemporary society.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Nnenna Okore (born 1975) is an environmental artist, researcher, and teacher at North Park University, Chicago. Her eco-centered abstract sculptural forms are inspired by repurposing everyday material into richly textured forms and colors.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Chakaia Booker (born 1953) is an American sculptor known for creating innovative and monumental abstract works out of recycled rubber tires, for both the gallery and outdoor public spaces.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Bisa Butler (born 1973) is an American fiber artist who has transformed the medium of quilting to look more like a fine art painting. She is known for her vibrant, quilted portraits celebrating Black life, portraying both everyday people and notable historical figures.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Deana Lawson (born 1979) is an American artist, educator, and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York.[1] Her work is primarily concerned with intimacy, family, spirituality, sexuality, and Black aesthetics.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Dame Sonia Dawn Boyce (born 1962) is a British Afro-Caribbean artist and educator who lives and works in London. She is a Professor of Black Art and Design at University of the Arts London.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012) was an American and Mexican sculptor and graphic artist best known for her depictions of the Black-American experience in the 20th century, which often focused on the female experience.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Tschabalala Self (born 1990) is an American artist best known for her depictions of Black female figures using paint, fabric, and discarded pieces of her previous works.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Faith Ringgold (October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024) was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.

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Heather Beckwith @typeontrees.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Toyin Ojih Odutola (born 1985) is a Nigerian-American contemporary visual artist known for her vivid multimedia drawings and works on paper.

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