Painted in 1971 in the Jeff Donaldson School of Art, while I was a student at Northwestern University.
Jackson, Mississippi visual artist/art historian, Pan-Africanist, Harold S. Dorsey graduated from Arkansas AM&N College (now The University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff in 1960 and studied there under Art Professor John Howard. Dorsey taught art at Prairie View A&M University for 20 years before retiring in 2008.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Sketch of the Lovely, Petite Poet Warrior Sonia Sanchez
Originally we met in 1973 at the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival sponsored at Jackson State University by Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander. I got her to sign the sketch Saturday, April 9, 2011 after Ms. Sanchez's morning address at the Margaret Walker Center Creative Arts Festival.
"The Crap Game"
I followed some boys out into the woods while they were shooting craps and drew them, the setting of the sketch is my father's motel in Tougaloo, Mississippi. This painting won me a full scholarship to the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff. "Crap Game" was my first painting.
"The Crap Game"
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