Charles H. Wright Museum Report

“Images” that are dedicated to humanism, conceived by, and based on African Americans and their encounters.

Maya Angelou’s Rural Museums- Southern Romance, explores the legacy of slavery and brings much needed light to it. Angelou takes a trip to Louisiana too see it’s slave cabins exhibit in search for closure. Angelou, as a black woman, feels it is her obligation to be aware of her painful history. She quotes, “Since I am a descendent of African slaves, my baggage was frightfully overweight with trepidation anger fear and a morbid curiosity…” (Angelou, 89). She acknowledges who she is and braces herself for what is to come, instead of cowering and avoiding the past just because it might make her uncomfortable like many.

Founded in 1965, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History showcases the world's largest permanent exhibit on African American culture. My visits there are always educational and profoundly moving. The museum has an incredible perspective on the past and the present journey of African Americans. At the same time, it takes us on a comprehensive journey of the African American contribution to the world. Today, I will take us on that journey and paint a vivid image of Charles H. Wright Museum.

The research done on the African Burial Ground has strengthened the public’s knowledge of 17th and 18th-century black heritage in New York. The comprehensive research done integrates scientific approaches and the intellectual, educational and political insights of African American communities. Blakey and the Howard research team conduct research to publicize the lost narrative of Africans living in New York during the 17th and 18th-century. The research conducted adds to the history of the United States and is a reservoir of knowledge about the time period and the deceased. The research does not attempt to speak for the dead but rather allow their findings to speak for themselves. However, when presenting history on a systematically marginalized

Given that this “visit” was more like a virtual experience, I was still able to access a couple of my senses, just as if I was at the actual exhibition. Through the use of anecdotes and detailed images, I am able to see all of the personal experiences an individual had while practicing a particular dance and what it meant to them. In this exhibition, there are ten different dances displayed, including the: Yup´ik Yurapiaq and the Quyana (Thank You) Song Dance, Yakama Girl’s Fancy Shawl Dance, Cubeo Óyne Dance, Yoreme Pajko’ora Dance, Mapuche Mütrüm Purun, Tlingit Ku.éex ' Entrance Dance, Lakota Men’s Northern Traditional Dance, Seminole Stomp Dance, Hopi Butterfly Dance, and finally, Quechua Danza de Tijeras (Scissor Dance). All parts of the exhibit were insightful, but the two that sparked my interest the most were the Yup´ik Yurapiaq and the Quyana (Thank You) Song Dance and the Quechua Danza de Tijeras (Scissor Dance).

It must have been 13 years or so since I have been to the art museum, back in elementary school, on a one of a kind field trip. 13 years is way too long to have been away from the art museum, as my experience this year reminded me that. It was a beautiful, sunny October day, although it felt like July, and it was an even better day to talk a walk through the vast, mesmerizing pieces of art that the museum has to offer. The North Carolina Museum of Art provides an abundance of artwork from various time periods, cultures, and one can find art anywhere from Egyptian, to classical, to modern and contemporary art. The artwork that the museum provides not only displays an abundance of artwork, but

Charles Wilson Peale’s draw this self-portrait to express about his life story as an artist and a scientist who founded a museum which bears his name. The portrait show Peale raises a curtain up with his right hand to reveal his museum gallery. Peale represents the hierarchical way of the arrangement of the natural world which moves from highest to lowest, where each species fixed in the natural order. Peale represented the human beings as a supreme accomplishment of creation at the top of hierarchy through laying a group of portraits of famous contemporary figures at the top of the gallery walls. Then at the middle, directly underneath, the birds and animals which were preserved inside the glass cases. Ultimately, at the bottom of the hierarchy, a turkey and three fossil bones of a mastodon were represented in the foreground of the painting waiting to join the rest of skeleton visible behind the curtain.

This is the one place out of all our class treks, I have visited. I took my church Sunday school class during spring break last year, but I was still surprised when I entered into the building. The museum has added, new exhibits, an Art Gallery in the front, and a movie room. A prominent artist, James Pate from Ohio, displays wall to wall art of KKK (Kin Killin’ Kin) black on black crime. It was sad to see, the more we think things have changed; the more they actually stay the same. A long time ago, black people were used to capture black, men and women, to be sold into slavery. Today, black slavery is depicted in another form; drugs and killing each other.

While the representation of Black men and women is one that throughout the years has not often been given thought to by people outside of the Black community, in the Moynihan Report and essays and speeches by both Angela Davis and Malcolm X, we see how the representation of Black people has for years been detrimental to the progression of the Black community. Through careful analysis of several different texts, I will highlight the ways in which Black people have through the oppressive forces of negative representation been seen as inferior to their white counterparts and been held back because of those very same forces.

Unfortunately, a great deal of the African and the African American history has been lost. With the exception of some ‘Old Gee Chee’ stories and the many John Henry type

Have you ever had a piece of music that causes a picture or painting to come to life? When I was at the David Owsley Museum I was looking at art pieces that had more of a realistic feel and trying to find one that was interesting to me. The Rapids, Sister Island, Niagara by William Morris Hunt caught my attention by just looking at it, and then I listened to Variation XI “G.R.S.” by Edward Elgar, and I really enjoyed the two pieces of art placed together. There were three things that caught my attention to the music and I noticed that these things we discussed in art connected directly to the ideas from music. The first thing that was intriguing to me was the tone color. Next, the dynamic was interesting and related to the way the painting

Wilbur Wright was born in 1867 and his younger brother Orville was born in 1871 to the their father, Milton Wright who was a bishop, and their mother, Susan koerner. Their father’s profession made him travel he would often bring toys back to the boys one was a model helicopter that worked off of a piece of cork, bamboo, and paper powered by a rubber band. This toy would spark the boy's fascination with flight. Wilbur was an outgoing student who planned to attend Yale until a hockey accident drove him into depression he spent much of his time at the family home reading and caring for his ailing mother who later died of tuberculosis and did not even receive his high school diploma.

A man of many talents and disciplines, Frank Lloyd Wright is arguably one of the most creative architects of the 20th century. Even before he was born, his mother, Anna Lloyd Jones claimed that her child would build beautiful buildings. To prepare for Wright’s arrival, Jones decorated his nursery with engravings of English Cathedrals from periodicals to motivate him as an infant. On June 8, 1867, Lloyd was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. However, after three years, the family moved to Weymouth Massachusetts because Wright’s Father, William Wright, was a baptist minister who wanted to minster a small congregation.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.”orville are talking about how giving advice to build a plane. People that built millions of airlines to fly. They both had good idea to to help people cross the world faster.The brothers are smart to come up with that idea.They worked in a bike shop in ohio.

As we come to the close of another black History Month, we have been reflecting upon our heritage. Upon such people as Chrispus Atticks, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas, George Washington Culver, Dr. Charles Drew, Thurgood Marshal, Malcolm X, and of course Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many, many more. And as we remember and review these names we realize that in any other society this would be a great list of historical figures. But being in the society that we are in, our contributions have been, to say the least, SUPPRESSED.