Subject: African American Art & Artists Books
Resources for Children and Teachers: Juvenile books and multimedia resources
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Subject: African American Art & Artists
Books
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Bryan Collier. F334.M753 P38427 2006 Art of African Masks: exploring cultural traditions by Carol Finley. GN645.F45 1999
Romare Bearden: collage of memories by Jan Greenberg. N6537.B4 G74 2003
Romare Bearden: celebrating the victory by Myron Schwartzman. N6537.B4 S38 1999
Jacob Lawrence: American scenes, American struggles by Nancy Shroyer Howard. N6537.L384 H68 1996
Talking to Faith Ringgold by Faith Ringgold, Linda Freeman & Nancy Roucher. N6537.R55 A2 1996
Harlem Renaissance : working with patterns. N6538.N5 H3 2004
Wake Up Our Souls: a celebration of Black American artists by Tonya Bolden. N6538.N5 B65 2004
Come Look with me: discovering African American Art for children by James Rolling Jr.. N6538.N5 R65 2005
Resources for Children’s Teachers
Painting Dreams: Minnie Evans, visionary artist by Mary E Lyons. ND237.E79 L96 1996
L’il Sis and Uncle Willie a story based on the life and paintings of William H. Johnson by Gwen Everett. ND237.J73 E94 1994
The Great Migration: an American story/ paintings by Jacob Lawrence; with a poem in appreciation by Walter Dean Myers. ND237.L29 A4 1993
Story Painter: The Life of Jacob Lawrence by John Duggleby. ND237.L29 D83 1998
Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter by Mary E. Lyons. ND237.P65 L86 1993
Deep Blues: Bill Traylor, self‐taught artist by Mary E. Lyons. ND237.T617 L96 1994
Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance by P. Stephen Hardy & Sheila Jackson Hardy. NX512.3.A35 H37 2000
In daddy's arms I am tall : African Americans celebrating fathers illustrated by Javaka Steptoe. PS591.N4 B46 1997
Words with wings : a treasury of African American poetry and art selected by Belinda Rochelle. PS591.N4 W67 2001
Charlotte Whitney Allen Library • Memorial Art Gallery • 500 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607 585‐276‐8999 • http://mag.rochester.edu/library/ Resources for Children’s Teachers
The Sweet and Sour Animal book by Langston Hughes; illustrations by students from the Harlem School of the Arts; introduction by Ben Vereen. PS3515.U274 S94 1994
Me and Uncle Romie: a story inspired by the life and art of Romare Bearden by Claire Hartfield. PZ7.H2625 Me 2002
MULTI MEDIA
Posters
African American artist poster set. N6538.N5 A276 1993
Kit
The Art of Romare Bearden: A Resource for Teachers, from the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Department of Education Resources, 2003. N6537.B4 A873 2003
African American Artists: Affirmation Today, from the series America Past and Present; National Arts and Humanities Education Program of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994. N6538.N5 A275 1994
Jacob Lawrence and the Migration Series Teaching Kit by the Education Department of the Phillips Collection, 2007. ND237.L29 A4 2007b
Art by African‐American Artists: Selections from the 20th Century, a resource for Educators from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. NX 512.3.A35 M48 2003
African American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago, by Sally Ruth May. NX652.A37 M39 1997
Jacob Lawrence, Fredrick Douglass & Harriet Tubman, exhibition‐related slide set, Memorial Art Gallery, incorporating the Studio Museum in Harlem’s 25 Years of African‐American Art, 1994.
20th Century African American Art Slide Set, Memorial Art Gallery, 1997.
Charlotte Whitney Allen Library • Memorial Art Gallery • 500 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607 585‐276‐8999 • http://mag.rochester.edu/library/ Resources for Children’s Teachers
Video
Kwanzaa [videorecording] by Schlessinger Media ; produced by Rhonda Fabian and Jerry Baber ; directed by Rhonda Fabian. GT4403 .K9 2004
Betye and Alison Saar [videorecording] : conjure women of the arts / created and produced by Linda Freeman ; written and directed by David Irving. N6537.S2 B47 1994
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