African American women artists; Poetry--Social aspects; Music--Social aspects; Art--Social aspects;Shange, Ntozake. For colored girls who have considered suicide when the Rainbow is enuf.; Walker, Kara Elizabeth. Gone.; India.Arie. Video.;...
The creative expressions of three black women artists--Ntozake Shange, Kara Walker, and India. Arie--are explored using optimal consciousness-an Afrocentric framework by Linda James Myers. This concept advocates that the role of the artist is to...
The arms and hands of a woman extend out over a nurse's kit as her silhouette appears on the wall. The kit includes cotton swabs, bandages, scissors, needles, and some vials of salve.
Seventh Street looking north to Kentucky Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Wide street with street car tracks curves left when it reaches a building with "Lyric Theater" and a silhouette of young Shirley Temple painted on it in a rectangle...
Decorative rectangular panel. At the top are two cherubs in silhouette holding a garland. The name "Beatrice Wilson" is in the center of the panel. Below the name is the phrase "Her Book." Beatrice Wilson was the sister-in-law...
Silhouette of a boy playing a horn underneath a tree framed by a decorative circular border. Below the border is an open book with musical notes on both pages. Below the book are two birds in profile with an oval panel containing the name...
Trees and a castle in silhouette framed by a circular border with text. The border contains the text "He is never alone who is accompanied by noble thoughts." In front of the border is a knight in armor on a horse. Below the horse is a...
Bookplates; Labels; National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Circular symbol or seal for the society featuring a coat of arms or shield with a rifle, axe, and a bow and arrows. A man in silhouette stands on either side of the shield. The man on the left is in frontier-style clothes and holds a rifle. The man...
Silhouette of a man sitting at a desk writing. A window is behind him. A floor lamp and corner of a bookshelf are next to him. Text panels are above and below the image. The top panel contains the phrase "His Book." At the bottom is the...
Children seen through a gold window or archway playing in the snow. Three children are riding a toboggan down a hill, while a another child looks on, holding a sled, waving. Another pair of children stand near a sled in the distance. There are pine...
Buildings; University of Louisville--Buildings; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; Educational facilities; Sunrises & sunsets; J.B. Speed Hall (Louisville, Ky.)
Silhouette of the cupola atop J.B. Speed Hall, framed by treetops, photographed at sunset. J.B. Speed Hall was built largely with funds from the Works Progress Administration and James B. Speed's two children, Olive Speed Sackett and William S....
