Beulah Woodard

Beulah Ecton Woodard (Nuwamba 11, 1895 - Yuli 13, 1955) yar sculptor ce kuma Ba'amurke da ke zaune a California . Woodard shi ne dan Afirka na farko mai zane-zane da ta yi baje kolin solo a gidan kayan gargajiya na gundumar Los Angeles .

Tarihin Rayuwa

An haifi Beulah Ecton kusa da Frankfort, Ohio, a ranar 11 ga watan Nuwamban shekara 1895. Ita ce 'yar Mr. da Mrs. William P. Ecton. Mahaifinta ƴanci ne, ɗan yaƙin basasa, kuma manomi. Yayin da take jaririya, danginta sun koma California, inda ta zauna kusa da Los Angeles a cikin abin da zai zama Vernon .

Yawancin dangin Woodard sun kasance masu fasaha; ɗaya daga cikin kakarta kwararre ne mai sana'ar masaka da rini, yayin da alaka ta namiji (ko kakanta ko kawunta) ya kasance mai sassaka. Ta ci gaba da sha'awar al'adun Afirka na tsawon rayuwa tana da shekaru 12 a lokacin da wani ɗan Afirka ya ziyarci danginta. Ta halarci makarantar sakandare ta Polytechnic ta Los Angeles, inda ta karanta zanen gine-gine . Bayan kammala makarantar sakandare, Woodard ya yi ayyuka daban-daban a matsayin kuyanga da mai hidima. Ta fara gwaji da yumbu a wannan lokacin, amma danginta sun hana ta neman a shekarar 1926. A 1928, ta auri Brady Woodard.

Bayan aurenta, Woodard ya canza wani ɓangare na gidanta zuwa ɗakin zane-zane kuma ya ɗauki kwasa-kwasan a Cibiyar Fasaha ta Otis, Makarantar Fasaha ta Los Angeles, da Jami'ar Kudancin California . Malamanta sun hada da Glen Lukens, Paul Troubetzkoy, da Los Angeles County Museum of Art co-kafa Peter David Edstrom .

Sana'ar fasaha

Woodard ta fara nuna wasanta na farko a watan Fabrairun shekara ta 1935 a cikin taga kantin sayar da kayayyaki na mako-mako na California News . Gano wannan baje kolin, shugabar ɗakin karatu Miriam Matthews ta shirya don baje kolin aikin Woodard a Laburaren Reshe na Vernon da Babban Laburaren Los Angeles . A cikin 1937, Woodard ya nuna aikinta a Stendahl Art Galleries. Woodard na gaba ya zama ɗan wasan Ba’amurke ɗan Afirka na farko da ya baje kolin nunin mutum ɗaya a gidan kayan gargajiya na gundumar Los Angeles tare da baje kolin abin rufe fuska na Afirka a 1937. Baje kolin ya kasance har tsawon watanni biyu kuma ya ƙunshi "jerin yumbu da kayan rufe fuska na papier-mâché, waɗanda aka yi wa ado da filaye da gashin fuka-fukai kuma bisa binciken ɗan adam na mai fasaha." Da yawa daga cikin guntuwarta an siyi su ne daga Kamfanin Inshorar Mutual Life Mutual Life na Jihar don tarin zane-zane na kamfanoni.

Woodard ya yi amfani da kafofin watsa labaru daban-daban don samar da sassaka, ciki har da tagulla, itace, terracotta, da papier-mâché . A cikin sassaƙaƙen ta, ta yi kwatankwacin gashin gashi, kayan ado da rigunan kai na mutanen Ekoi, Luba, Hemba da Mangbetu . Ayyukanta na terracotta Maudelle hoto ne na gaske na ɗan wasan kide-kide na Ba'amurke Maudelle Bass Weston, wanda aka yi ba tare da yin amfani da ƙirar ƙira ko zane ba. Ayyukanta da aka fi sani sun haɗa da Bad Boy, Sharecropper, da Maudelle, duk kwanan wata 1936-1938. Ta lashe lambar yabo ta farko a cikin sassaka a Los Angeles All-City Annual Outdoor Arts Festival a shekara ta 1953. Kamar sauran masu fasaha na New Negro Movement, ta nemi "inganta ingantaccen fahimtar Afirka tare da ingantaccen tarihinta" da haɓaka girman kai a cikin al'adun Baƙar fata.

Woodard ya kasance mai himma a cikin al'ummar masu fasaha na Los Angeles kuma ya yi lacca a cibiyoyin ilimi daban-daban. Ta kasance memba na Da'irar Nazarin Mawallafin Mu, ƙungiyar littattafan mata da ke da alaƙa da Ƙungiyar Nazarin Rayuwa da Tarihi ta Amirka, wanda ya rinjayi magajin gari Fletcher Bowron don kafa Makon Tarihin Negro na farko na Los Angeles. A cikin 1937, ta haɗu da haɗin gwiwar Los Angeles Negro Art Association. A cikin 1950, ta kafa haɗin gwiwa kuma ta jagoranci Gallery Associated Artist Gallery don manufar haɓaka ƙwararrun matasa masu fasaha na Baƙar fata. Wannan haɗin gwiwar masu fasaha na Los Angeles na ɗan gajeren lokaci ya nuna 'yan Afirka na zamani Alice Taylor Gafford da William Pajaud da kuma dan kasar Amurka mai suna Tyrus Wong .

Woodard ya mutu a Los Angeles a ranar 13 ga Yulin shekarar 1955, tana da shekaru 59, kafin ta iya shiga baje kolin kayayyakin tarihi a Jamus. .

Rumbun hotuna

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  Mask na abin da ba a tantance ba
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  Mask na likitancin Afirka
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  Mask na Haile Selassie

Duba kuma

 

• Jerin masu fasahar gani na Ba-Amurke
• Jerin mata masu fasaha na ƙarni na 20

Kara karantawa

• Arvey, Verna (Winter 1944). "By Her Own Bootstraps". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life (22).