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The history of African-American painting is as old as the United States. As early as the 18th century notable artists Joshua Johnson and Scipio Moorhead produced portraiture. Each participated in artistic communities that constitute the early foundations of American art and literature. These artists, among others, background the development of a complex lineage that persisted from the Colonial Period to the present. Bookending a section of that history with Edward Mitchell Bannister (1826-1901) as forebear and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) as scion provides an opportunity to study cultural continuity of African-American painting from early Modern art through Contemporary art. This lecture will look at such art by decade, covering years 1865 through 2015. 

Buffalo Prescott is proud to present this lecture with writer, artist, curator, and teacher Christopher Stackhouse. His writing has been published in numerous journals and periodicals including Der Pfeil (Hamburg, DE), American Poet- The Journal of The Academy of American Poets, Modern Painters, Art in America, BOMB Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail. His recent contributions to artist monographs include Kara Walker's Dust Jackets for The Niggerati and, Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks that accompanies the traveling exhibition of text based works by Basquiat, which opened at The Brooklyn Museum spring 2015. Stackhouse has taught in the Critical Practices & Studio Art Program at the New York Center for Art & Media Studies, at Naropa University's Summer Writing Program; as a Visiting Artist/Writer to art and literature departments at Ohio State University; as a Visiting Critic at the Leroy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, and Senior Thesis & Junior Independent faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art.