Marie Johnson Calloway

Marie Johnson Calloway (born April 10, 1920 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an African American artist. Calloway received The Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.[1]

Education

Calloway graduated from Coppin Teachers College, in Baltimore, Maryland. She taught school in Baltimore for several years.[2] She earned a BA from Morgan State University, and her MA from San Jose State University. After a move to California, Calloway was hired as the first African American public school teacher in San Jose.[3]

Art

Calloway looks beneath the misunderstandings that history has recorded about all African Americans and herself. She has attempted to to show the rough-hewn beauty of several individuals in her life. She depicts them realistically and uses media such as old cloth, found objects, and old wood pieces.[4] Calloway said, "The one connecting thread through all of the work is my perception of my own world, external and internal and my continuous effort to relate the personal with the universal". [4]

Calloway describes her art, "Because there is a never-ending excitement to experimenting with varied concepts, media and techniques, sometimes successfully and oft-times not, I have not been willing to confine my creative activities to one narrow path. The resulting collection of expressions is a somewhat divergent mix of works: Large and small, quite and intense, lyrical and unharmonious, abstract and concrete, spiritual and worldly. The one connecting thread is my perception of my own world (which, too, has been an odd mix) and my continuous effort to interpret it in a personal way."[5]

Exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ "WCA Past Honorees". nationalwca.org. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Marie Johnson Calloway: Legacy of Color". MoAD Museum of African Diaspora. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Marie Johnson-Calloway - The HistoryMakers". thehistorymakers.com. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  4. 1 2 "M. Lee Stone Fine Prints, Inc. - American Works of Art". mleestonefineprints.com. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "Marie Johnson Calloway". Women Eco Artists Dialog. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  6. ↑ https://landispr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MoAD_Marie-Johnson-Calloway_-2.3.15.pdf


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