Weusi Artist Collective

Weusi Artist Collective is an organization of African-American artists, established in 1965, based in the Harlem section of New York City.^[1][2] Inspired by the Black Arts Movement, the members of the Weusi Artist Collective create art invoking African themes and symbols. The group chose to name their collective "Weusi," the Swahili word for "blackness."^[1]

Members

Abdullah Aziz Che Baraka G. Falcon Beazer Kay Brown (Artist) David Byer-Tyre Perry Cannon Stanwyck Cromwell Robert Daniels (Artist) Taiwo Duvall Ogundipe Fayomi

Gaylord Hassan Rod Ivey MLJ Johnson Nii Ahene La Mettle-Nunoo Dindga McCannon Karl A. McIntosh Otto Neals Ademola Olugebefola Ed Sherman (Artist) Emmett Wigglesworth

Exhibitions

• Weusi 1990: Recent & Vintage Works, held January 21 to February 16, 1990, at the Bedford-Stuyvesant Center for Art & Culture, Brooklyn, New York^[3]
• Resurrection III, held at the African American Museum (New York), February 2008^[4]
• Weusi.com, curated by MLJ Johnson, held at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, February 5-March 24, 2016^[5]
• Weusi Revisited, 2010, held at the Dwyer Cultural Center, Harlem, New York City, February 2010^[1]

References

1. Ali, Grace Aneiza. "A Weusi Reunion at Harlem's Dwyer Cultural Center". Of Note Magazine. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
2. Brown, Kay (Spring 2012). "The Weusi Artists". NKA: A Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 (30): 63. doi:10.1215/10757163-1496471.
3. Weusi 1990 : recent & vintage works, January 21 to February 16, 1990, the Bedford-Stuyvesant Center for Art & Culture. Brooklyn, New York: Bedford-Stuyvesant Center for Art & Culture. 1990. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
4. Jacobson, Aileen. "Portrait of the Weusi Artists". Newsday.com. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
5. "Black History Month Celebration, 2016". Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. Retrieved 20 February 2016.

External links

• Weusi Artist Collective
• Interview with artists of the Weusi Artist Collective, 1971, from the Archives of American Art