Artist and art instructor Wilhelmina Obatola Grant-Cooper will welcome us to her studio via Zoom to share her artworks, process and story. She is a cancer survivor, who discovered her artistic calling through healing. We will have a powerpoint presentation followed by a Q and A. Beth Gersh-Nešić, director of the New York Arts Exchange, will conduct the interview
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Wilhelmina Obatola Grant-Cooper in her studio
Ms. Grant-Cooper founded SISTAAH, Inc. (Survivors Inspiring Sisters Through Art and Advocacy for Health), an arts-based non-profit organization which seeks to inform, encourage and facilitate access to early detection of breast cancer by connecting the medically underserved to free screening services. Through SISTAAH, Inc., she also launched two successful grant-funded community art projects: Saving Our Sisters in the African American Community, and the Harlem Hand Fan Initiative.
Ms. Grant-Cooper creates assemblages using mixed-media and found objects which she repurposes into visual art. Among her collectors are Alice Walker, President Bill Clinton, Vy Higginson, Hoda Kotb, Hamilton Landmark Galleries, Heath Gallery and Universal Studios.
Her memoir A Feeling of Fullness: Insights of a Divinely Guided Journey Beyond Breast Cancer (2016) is available on her website: https://sistaah.org/
Frans Hals, Marriage Portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrice van der Laen, 1622. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
It's Valentine's Day 2021. Let's celebrate with a sentimental challenge: can you identify these lovers in art?
If you can guess all 10: you merit the whole pound of chocolates; 9-7: you merit a half a pound of chocolates; 7- 5: you merit a quarter of a pound of chocolates; 4 and under: you merit a Hersey's Kiss and a hug for trying. Thank you for taking the time to test your knowledge and click through for the correct answers. Please feel free to share with your fellow art history fans.
Happy Valentine's Day -
With love and hugs,
Beth and the New York Arts Exchange
Oh - I have visited a few virtual exhibitions, as well as several in person since art museums and galleries opened this past summer. The in-person experience can't be beat. However, there are several virtual exhibitions that merit praise.
What do YOU think of virtual exhibitions on museum websites? I would genuinely like to know.
So with that curiosity in mind, and a sincere desire to talk to you about art, as we did when we toured the museum and galleries shows, I have dreamed up a series of 4 meetings, which I call "art salons" that offer an opportunity to talk about art and not sit passively listening to the presenter.
Our series of 4 salons is called: Critiquing the Virtual Museum Experience
It is hosted by Greenwich Arts Council. You can learn more about the series and register here.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., delivers his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in the auditorium of Oslo University in Norway on Dec. 10, 1964. (AP Photo)ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today we honor the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. with remembering his advice and striving to bring all humankind together in peace and harmony:
“We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.”
