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1. 1 2019-08-28T16:21:15-07:00 Lauren Cesiro f37e4e52c3d9a4ff08b7937020ee9048f11c6739 "And even if I have studied for many years and all over the world, . . . I have still been able to preserve the primitive in me. . . . My aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, Lauren Cesiro 4 plain 2019-09-04T05:20:38-07:00 Lauren Cesiro f37e4e52c3d9a4ff08b7937020ee9048f11c6739
2. 1 2019-08-28T16:24:52-07:00 Lauren Cesiro f37e4e52c3d9a4ff08b7937020ee9048f11c6739 Booker T. Washington was the Founder and First President of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University) Lauren Cesiro 4 plain 2019-09-04T05:20:40-07:00 Lauren Cesiro f37e4e52c3d9a4ff08b7937020ee9048f11c6739

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• 1 2019-09-03T18:36:57-07:00 William Henry Johnson (1901-1970)
  Booker T. Washington Legend, circa 1942-1943 3 Label & Media plain 2019-09-04T11:28:30-07:00
  Booker T. Washington was a great African-American educator, the first president of what would become Tuskegee University, one of the country’s most renowned historically black universities. William H. Johnson chooses to depict Washington not at the height of his fame, but at the very beginning his career in the 1870s, when he taught in the small community of Malden, West Virginia, where he had grown up. Dressed in a suit, Washington is shown lecturing before a blackboard in front a classroom of young people—boys to the left, girls to the right. The rural setting is suggested by a simple log cabin depicted at the left.
  
  Although Johnson paints in what seems to be a simplified, even naïve style, he had in fact arrived at this vocabulary only after traveling in Europe and studying modern art, whose echoes are unmistakable here—as in the nearly abstract pattern of farm implements and musical instruments on the blackboard. Bridging folk art and modernism in an innovative synthesis, Johnson found a new visual language for the experience of Black Americans.