Kara Walker Research Paper

Kate Kimball is an award-winning fiction author who has worked hard to be in the position she is in now. Despite currently struggling with her health, she has continued to peruse her English PhD in Creative Writing here at Florida State University. Born in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah Kimball is surprised to find herself over 2,000 miles away now studying in the sunshine state. FSU offers one of the top creative writing programs that currently is ranked top 5 in the nation according to The Atlantic Monthly. Kimball was excited to be accepted into the accredited program after earning her bachelor’s from the University of Utah and masters at Virginia Tech. Kimball has always loved writing and says, “Creative writing allows you to write about

My mom, Shameka Walker, was born in New Rochelle, New York in 1973. She has two sisters and one brother. Her mother moved from Virginia and her father moved from North Carolina She is mixed race. She was segregated because she was mixed. Her family left New york because there was high crime and poverty. She left New York when she was 4 years old. They moved to Los Angeles, California. They thought that it was better than New York, until they got there.

The first person I chose was none other than the iconic, motivational speaker, activist herself, Madam CJ Walker. She empowered so many women of color to be independent and has paved the way for aspiring and current entrepreneurs , mainly women, who are looking to go into the cosmetology field. Walker, whose birth name was Sarah Breedlove, hadn’t always been the successful entrepreneur she was, and had to work extremely hard to obtain her multi-million legacy. She was born when slavery was still prevalent, and her parents, as well as older siblings, worked as slaves on a plantation in Louisiana(her home state). Luckily, the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, freeing all slaves from their owners, Madam Walker was the first of her six siblings

Carrie Amelia Moore thought that drinking caused most of the problems in the world. She was against alcohol and she started trying to get it to be banned. Carrie is known for carrying a hatchet with her that helped her smashed public places. She kept thinking that god wanted her to travel around and get people to see the way she saw the problems of alcohol. She did speeches, used violence, and she was a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union who was known most from all of the other people who were in there..

“I want to live to help my race” Madam CJ Walker once said. She was a woman who would not let racial and gender barriers stop her from doing what she wanted. She was born into a family of former slaves, who did not have enough money to send any of the children to school. In 1887 her husband Moses was killed in a lynch mob, the reason was because he was black. So, Madam CJ Walker had to raise their 2-year-old daughter alone. At that time, it was hard to find a job to support her daughter, who she wanted to attend school and have a better life than she did. It was also very difficult to find a house because banks wound not loan money to African Americans so it was difficult to save up money to buy one. When she moved to St. Louis she washed clothes

My name is Kaela Andersen. I was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in the quaint little town of Vernon, Utah. I went to Tooele High School and shortly after graduation, my family and I moved in with my grandmother in Provo. My immediate family consist of my parents and two older sisters. I enjoy being the auntie of two nieces and one nephew.

By employing themes such as psychosexual fantasies, race, gender, and violence, artist Kara Walker reconstructs and explores the history and effects of American slavery on American culture. Although being called names like notorious, revolting, anti-progressive, and shameless, she continues to be a pioneer of bringing the unspeakable aspects of American slavery that are not commonly discussed and are left out of the history books to the foreground of public discussion.

Sarah Breedlove (Madam CJ Walker) did the unthinkable and became the first self-made female millionaires, during a time when women could not vote and African Americans were legally discriminated against in America. Madam CJ Walker survived countless boundaries which included being orphaned at seven, widowhood by age twenty, bad marriages, being a single parent, institutional racism, Jim Crow era, and low wages. How did Madam Walker achieve this incredible feat, facing such dire odds, and challenges in a time where she was thought of as less than a person? The following research in about the woman, the times, and her accomplishments during an era of hardship for all women especially for the African American women.

Kristi was born in 1972. Kristi spent her childhood in the years 1972-1985 and her teenage years from 1985-1990. There are five people in her family, including two parents, Nancy and Harlan, and two sisters, Roxanne and Michelle in that order with Kristi being the youngest daughter. A typical day in Kristi’s life while in high school was to wake up, go to school, go to sports practice after school, come home, eat supper, do homework, and then go to bed for the next day.

On August 26, 1918, in West Virginia, Joshua Coleman and Joylette Coleman had a baby girl. She would grow up to be one of the smartest women in the world. She would be an inspiration to all. Her name is Katherine Johnson.

Any artist uses their surroundings as inspiration. An African American female artist deal with being the underdog. The situations they were placed in, ended up being inspirational moments. These moments became inspirational because they were personal stories, life learned lessons, and life changing moments. This essay only mentions three strong, powerful, monumental women. However, there are many more females who have helped the African American woman artist culture. They are still hidden. It is essays like this that help spread their stories, and their art

The life and works of Margaret Walker was themed with messages of hope serving as a pillar of support for the African-American race. The trials and tribulation of the African-Americans as they adapt their new found freedom was one filled with great struggle.

Kara Walker was born to Gwen and Larry Walker on the 26th of November, 1969. They, at the time of Kara’s birth, lived in Stockington, California with their two children Dana and Larry Jr. Gwen worked as an administrative assistant and Larry was a professor of arts at the University of the Pacific in Stockington; he taught a wide variety of studio classes while he worked there and often brought his projects home with him. Kara and her siblings all remember sitting upon his lap while he worked; Kara in particular has said in an interview with her father that “You [Larry Walker] held me and kept me around. There was a feeling of safety associated with making stuff and I got a good vibe from doing drawings” (“Kara Walker & Larry Walker”). Her mother and father also made it a point of taking their children to museums and art galleries throughout their childhood; Larry additionally allowed his children to come with him when he delivered artworks to various exhibits.

The various visual elements display through Renee Cox and Kara Walker have a common theme of exploited black women. Their art is often conversion and viewed differently about the audience. Their art has a common feel as if you're into the scene or have a great sense of depth within the art. The similarities and differences will be based on stereotypes, illusions of past events and the meanings behind the art.

Out of the three artists I chose Cindy Sherman. Cindy Sherman was born on January 19, 1954 in glen ridge, New Jersey. Sherman wasn’t always deeply interested in the arts growing up, but finally decided there was a way of art that could show a message about the world, and hold meaning. Sherman’s first works of art were of her taking self portraits, and having them displayed. Sherman’s work conveyed many different meanings of different parts of media, and culture. Her pieces were sometimes viewed as strange, and many people had a hard time picking up what she had behind them. The art work of hers generally displayed some sort of stereotype or idea in the society. Cindy Sherman had many powerful displays of art, but one I really found interesting