Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/03/2024
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Altadena Main Library
Category(ies)
Charles White (Photo – Altadena Library)
Showcasing the legacy of renowned California artist Charles White, the exhibit features artwork by White’s students from Tutor/Art, a youth program established following the Watts Rebellion.
Amazingly, these former students, now in their 70s, have remained in contact. This will be a 50th anniversary celebration of their transformative experience under White’s tutelage. The diversity of their backgrounds and lifetime trajectory is broad, but they share one thing in common: an enduring love and respect for the man who inspired them to render their unique points of view into visual art. The exhibit has special significance in Altadena given that it is the home of Charles White Park, the only public park in California named after an African American visual artist.
The exhibit is curated by Art Aids Art, an Altadena-based nonprofit arts organization co-founded by Thomas Harding and Dr. Dorothy Yumi Garcia.
About Charles White
Charles White was an American painter, printmaker, and teacher known for chronicling African American related subjects in paintings, drawings, lithographs, and murals. One of his best-known works, The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy, was completed in 1943 at Hampton University. In 2021, the university received a grant from African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund to assist with the preservation of the historic mural. White lived in Altadena with his wife and children.
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