Mary Lee Brady, Ph. D.
Affirmations?
What and who affirms your values of beauty and goodness? Which images are in your home, schools, churches, workplace and places of recreation? The beauty of art is available first in the mind of creator, --- and then the forms of presentation he or she chooses for you to share the creative view.
Which artists care about you? You decide. You can enter each gallery listed in menu below by clicking on the toolbars. You may also go to other topics via the menu on left.
Art and books are certainly reflective of what enlightened and educated adults value. And, the explosion in artistic creativeness during the past forty years by gifted youth of African heritage is owed almost totally to enterprising spirits, such as Edward Robertson,
--- who dedicated his ingenuity to make possible the printing and distribution of so-called "Black Art" that major distributors refused to print and principle galleries would not display. In fact, the term used in rejection rationale was "primitive art."
True, there were a few artists of color who had their works displayed by some galleries in New York and Paris, --- but, statistically non-significant compared to what is now available. So thank God and enlightenment pioneers! Now, after decades of pro-creativity, - the works of Black artists are in very high demand throughout the world.
In its best and final form, affirmative arts are gifts bequeathed to successor generations; requires:
As such, enlightened and educated people tend to patronize art that affirms values they want their heirs to know and appreciate.
Graphic arts are generally defined to include drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics and occasionally architecture. An argument is advanced by some scholars that affirmative action begins with perception of self and others.
Bad, beauty, courage, fear, goodness, humor, ignorance, intelligence, sexuality, threats, ugliness, and other visual perceptions imposed on evolving generations of human consciousness:
--by the gifted and talented who are truly,
--generated, sponsored and patronized via,
--various ethnic/racial groups and persons.
Now, please enter and browse our galleries made possible by gifts of creativity for you to enjoy.