Elias Sime is an Ethiopian artist that lately has attracted a lot of attention and even when he works and lives in Ethiopia, his art has been seen and praised all over the western world. I think (but I might be wrong) that the last exhibition in the US was the [...]

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Julie Merhetu was born in Ethiopia in 1970 but was raised in the US, and lives and works in New York City. Even when she’s still a young artist, she’s already quite famous. She has a rich mixed background, from her family to her studies and that clearly reflects on her [...]

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If any of you are of African descent or have been the parent of an African child for a while, you know how versatile African hair is. It’s extraordinary the things you can do with it. Thanks to its curly nature, African hair can be modeled, twisted, braided in almost any form you can imagine [...]

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This past week we went to the library to pick up some books for the children and this time I found some written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold. She’s an African American artist and writer very well known by her quilts/paintings that tell stories. Her books are full of [...]

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