African Americans have a long history of artistic expression and scientific invention. Their art, music, and culture have paved the way for future artists and their legacy is one rich in perseverance, learning, and culture. This collection celebrates the art and science of African Americans artists and inventors.
Included Films:
From Dreams to Reality - A Tribute to Minority Inventors
From Dreams to Reality – A Tribute to Minority Inventors
Produced: 1986
Length: 27 Minutes
“From Dreams to Reality – A Tribute to Minority Inventors,” highlights the inventions of African American and women inventors. Ossie Davis hosts the documentary, focusing on the inventions, but also showing the patent office’s job of recording inventions for the future.
Five Artists
Five Artists
Produced: 1971
Length: 30 Minutes
“Five Artists,” highlights five African American artists Charles White, a painter, Romare Bearden, a collage artist, Barbara Chase-Riboud, a sculptor living in France, Richard Hunt, a sculptor from Chicago, and Betty Blayton director of the Moma Art School in Harlem. All have found their own unique ways to express their creativity and have hurtled barriers to follow their passions. How they go about creating their work, what inspires them, their viewpoints on life and race, and serves, ultimately, as a beautiful portrait on expressive contemporary art and sculpture.
