September 1, 1968
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the parent body of The Brooklyn Museum, Botanic Garden, Children's Museum and the Academy of Music, announces the opening of a new Community Gallery, Sunday, September 29 at 1 p.m., in The Brooklyn Museum. This is the first time that a community gallery has been established within the walls of a major cultural institution for the express purpose of encouraging and stimulating creativity in the arts.
Henri Ghent, who is also Assistant Director of the Institute, will be the new gallery’s director. The post was made possible last June by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Funds to construct the new gallery were donated anonymously.
The inaugural exhibition will be comprised of works by black artists from the Bedford Stuyvesant area, under the sponsorship of the Federated Institute of Cultural Enrichment (FICE), whose desire to exhibit in the Museum provided the original impetus for the gallery. The exhibition of Contemporary Afro-American Arts will include painting, sculpture, photography, tapestry, films and Audio-Visual, and will be shown for four weeks, terminating October 31. A minimum of eight exhibitions a year are being planned and will provide a showcase for creativity from all sections of the Borough of Brooklyn.
According to Mr. Ghent, “everyone is tremendously excited about this opportunity for creative Brooklynites to exhibit under the most advantageous circumstances. It shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that
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the Park Lane Hotel, have been attached to the Museum building itself. One corner of the Garden will eventually be arranged in the tumbledown manner of a New York City demolished building site.
The Museum hopes in the future that the Garden will become a place of assembly. Restaurant facilities, concerts, and dances are in the planning stage. Small special exhibits will also be a feature, the first of which will be a “peepshow” of miniature interiors designed by Robert Eney, representing periods covered by material in the collection.
In his introduction to Mr. Fried’s essay, Thomas S. Buechner, Director of the Museum, notes that “the Garden exists to preserve the best of what has been spared, bits and pieces potentially no less important to the future than the rainspouts of Baalbek or the gargoyles of Notre Dame."
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September 29, 1968
the federated institute of cultural enrichment......
F.I.C.E.
of the greater bedford-stuyvesant community presents
CONTEMPORARY AFRO-AMERICAN ARTS
sunday september 29 until thu[r]sday october 21, 1968
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM
Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238
FICE
creative solutions to problems that are real
ALLAHU AKBAR
GOD is the greatest
1. Hugh Harrell “The Ox” (oil) Who by his Power Caused
2. George Wilson “Wistful Melody” (oil)
3. Jessie Mosley “Untitled” (acrylic)
4. Tom Feelings “Portrait of a Man” (colored inks)
5. Tom Feelings “Jazz Musician” (pencil, oil paint wash[)]
6. Tejumola Adetutu Pencil rendering
7. Jukulo Oil Painting
8. Builder Levy Photograph
9. Hugh Harrell a. Felt tip rendering b. Felt tip & wash
10. Tejumola Adetutu “Girl in the Universe” (wash water coloring)
11. George Wilson “Torment” (oil)
12. Raymond Gibson Photograph
13. Bobby Richardson “The Beginning No. 1” (oil)
14. Alga Carr Portrait of a Man (charcoal)
15. Raymond Gibson Photograph
16. Hugh Harrell Bas-relief
17. Torment Portrait I (oil)
18. Jukulo Oil Painting
19. Raymond Gibson Photograph
20. Ademola “Sun Portrait” (oil)
21. Ademola “Burden of Injustice” (woodcut) (Artists Proof)
22. Tejumola Adetutu “Blue Burlap Mask” (burlap)
23. Ademola “Fertility” (woodcut) (Artists Proof)
24. David Elder Aluminum Mask
25. Raymond Gibson Photograph
26. Raymond Gibson Photograph
27. David Elder “Implosion” (oil painting on wood)
28. Ornie Miller “God Egbe” (Tapestry)
29. Bosley Oil Painting
30. Frank Smith Mask
31. Kitty Chavis “The Black in Me” (oil)
32. Raymond Gibson Photograph
33. Staiwo Balogun “Mother Earth Child” (oil)
34. Dwight Dates Work in wash, pencil & dry brush
35. Tejumola Adetutu Oil Painting
36. Falcon Beazer Pen & Ink
37. Otto Neal “The Water Carrier" (oil)
38. Ademola “Mask of the Sacred Poro Society" (woodcut, Artists Proof)
39. David Elder Doll
40. Ronald Pyatt “Study 100” (felt tip pen & ink)
41. Ronald Pyatt “Study 100 1/2” (felt tip pen & Ink)
42. Raymond Gibson Photograph
43. Charles Creary “Spiritual African Mask” (oil) Crucification
44. Nicholas Davis “Drummer” (oil)
45. Frank Smith Collage
46. David Elder “The Message” (found object)
47. Raymond Gibson Photography
48. Ademola Collage
49. Frank Smith Paper mache collage
50. Ademola “Confrontation” (woodcut)
51. Jessie Mosley Oil Painting
52. G. Falcon Beazer “The Holy Man” (pen & ink rendering)
53. Dwight Dates Paper collage
54. Builder Levy Photograph
55. Kay Brown “The Biafra Hell” (collage)
56. Raymond Gibson Photograph
57. Torrence “Portrait 2” (oil)
58. Builder Levy Photograph
59. Kitty Chavis "Masai Woman” (colored pastel)
60. Raymond Gibson Photograph
61. Builder Levy Photograph
62. Hugh Harrell Oil Painting
63. Frank Smith Oil Painting
64. Ornie Miller “Sing the Verve of Dandelions Spangling in Yellow Jubilance” Verse: Robert J. Abrams (tapestry)
65. Nicholas Davis “Market Place” (oil)
66. G. Falcon Beazer “All and Everything” (Pen & ink)
67. Abdul Rahman Oil Painting
68. Carol Blank Ink and tempera rendering
69. Carol Blank Ink and tempera rendering
70. Charles Bohannah “The Canteen” (oil)
71. Rafiet Pencil rendering
72. Tom Feelings "Girl on Steps” (pencil & wash tempera[)]
73. Rafiet Oil painting
74. Builder Levy Photograph
75. Raymond Gibson Photograph
76. Charles Creary “Bouquet de Fleur” (oil)
77. Mantaque Pollars Oil Painting
78. Abdul Rahman “Zulu Warrior” (oil)
79. Tejumola Adetutu Oil Painting
80. Rudy Irun “Afro Abstract” (oil on terry cloth)
81. Mantaque Pollars Oil Painting
82. Karl Holman Pencil rendering
83. Kitty Chavis “I Man” (oil)
84. Dwight Dates Oil Painting
85. Bill Howell "Study 500" (oil)
86. Rafiet “Mozambique Water Pails” (oil)
87. Carol Bateman "CB 518” (Pen & ink)
88. Otto Neal “Out of the Wilderness” (oil)
89. Mantaque Pollars Oil Painting
90. Mantaque Pollars Oil Painting
91. Mantaque Pollars Oil Painting
92. Carol Blank Cra-pas
93. Jessie Mosley Oil Painting
94. Raymond Gibson Photograph
95. Frank Smith “Pastorale” (oil)
96. Joe Overstreet “Machine System” (oil)
97. Carol Bateman “CB 521” (pen & ink)
98. Gaylord Smith “Oppression” (oil)
99. Ornie Miller “A Winter Flowering Seeing in our Tears” (Tapestry) Verse: Robert J. Abrams
100. Jessie Mosley Oil Painting
101. Gaylord Smith “Crossing” (oil)
102. Kitty Chavis Oil Painting
103. Builder Levy Light Painting
104. Dwight Dates Ink, watercolor, acrylic
105. Henery Pastel
106. Carol Blank Oil Painting
107. Dwight Dates Pencil wash
108. David P. Samuel “Brooklyn Back Fence” (oil)
109. George Wilson Oil Painting
110. Builder Levy Photograph
111. Henery Oil Painting
112. Raymond Gibson Photograph
113. Carol Blank “CB 504” (collage)
114. Tom Feelings “Pregnant” (pencil, wash, tempera)
115. Melvin Green “Freedom Now" (oil)
116. Kay Brown “Black Mother & Male Child” (oil)
117. Tom Feelings “Portrait of a Woman” (colored ink and casein)
118. Carol Bateman “CB 517” (pen & ink)
119. Rafiet “May I Have the Floor” (pencil rendering)
120. Builder Levy Light Painting
121. Kitty Chavis Oil Painting
122. Carol Bateman Collage
122 [123]. Bobby Richardson "Conversing” (oil)
123 [124]. Carol Bateman Collage
124 [125]. Hugh Harrell "Callous Soul” (sculpture in the round)
125 [126]. Frank Smith “Head of Christ” (sculpture in the round)
126 [127]. Hugh Harrell On pedestal
F.I.C.E. is composed of the following organizations:
AFRAM CULTURE, INC., STUDIO “0” Tel. 739-5126
10 Claver Place
Brooklyn, New York
MUSEUM OF MADAU Tel. 789-9746
86 St. James Place
Brooklyn, New York
OPERATION DISCOVERY, INC. Tel. 773-3023
830 Park Place
Brooklyn, New York
F.I.C.E. acknowle[d]ges with thanks and appreciation the cooperation of YA SANAA GALLERY, 158 West 132nd Street, NYC.
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