AKG Newsworthy NOLA
June 2024
Saturday, June 1st, 2024

Elena Erickson, Pride 30" x 40" Acrylic/canvas

The month of June is dedicated to LGBTQ pride...

 We have a lot to be proud of... Take a look at this list of artists, musicians, authors who stand in that number.

This is a fraction of all of the names that could be added,

but you catch my drift.

 

Artists: Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romaine Brooks, Paul Cadmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Leonor Fini, Sunil Gupta, Keith Haring, Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Frida Kahlo, Tamara de Lempicka, Michelangelo, Robert Rauschenberg, John Singer Sargent, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol...


Composers and musicians: Leonard Bernstein, David Bowie, John Cage, Brandi Carlile, Chopin, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Debbie Harry, Joan Jett, Elton John, Janis Joplin, K.D.Lang, Liberace, Ricky Martin, Shane McNally, Freddie Mercury, Janelle Monae, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Frank Ocean, Sinead O'Conner, Prince,

Queen Latifah, Ma Rainey, Cole Porter, Schubert,

 Pete Townshend, Luther Vandross…


Authors:  Edward Albee, Louisa May Alcott, James Baldwin, Lord Byron, Truman Capote, Noël Coward, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, E.M.Forster, Allen Ginsburg, Radclyffe Hall, Langston Hughes,

A.E. Houseman, Christopher Isherwood, Audre Lorde,

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marcel Proust, Annie Proulx,

Bayard Rustin, Gertrude Stein, Gore Vidal, Walt Whitman,

Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, Tennessee Williams.

and the list goes on... 


Be proud, it's a diverse and accomplished part of our community and we have much to recognize and celebrate...  


With pride, Angela

ARTIST IN ACTION

WOODROW NASH

On May 29th I had the pleasure of attending the unveiling of the Sojourner Truth sculpture located at the site of Truth’s 1851 speech to the Ohio Woman’s Convention, now Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza. Born into slavery in 1797, Isabella Baumfree, who later changed her name to Sojourner Truth, would become one of the most powerful advocates for human rights in the nineteenth century. The plaza design features a floral motif inspired by Truth’s family roots in Ghana. At the center stands a life-size bronze sculpture of Sojourner Truth by nationally renowned Akron artist Woodrow Nash. The Plaza opened officially on May 29, 2024 – the 173rd anniversary of Truth’s speech and now will be recognized every

May 29th in the city of Akron. 


Congratulations to the City of Akron & Woodrow Nash!

 

ONGOING

NASH NEW WORKS

HONORING GAY PRIDE

Joanna Zjawinska, Lost in Translation

Charlie Thysell, The Dancers

Peter Max, Retro Suite IV Heart #324

Mackenzie Thorpe, Love is in the Air

Robert Indiana, LOVE

Eddy Stevens, "10" Chez Godinaud

Elena Erickson, Pride

Raymond Douillet, Saint Sébastien et Cupidon

Andy Baird, 1.10.21

UPCOMING

TAJAH OLSON

EXHIBITION

Saturday, July 6, 2024

EDDY STEVENS

ART FOR ARTS SAKE 

Saturday, October 5, 2024

ANNE BACHELIER

EXHIBITION

Saturday, November 23, 2024

 
 

Angela King


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Mobile number : 504-427-9746

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Gallery number: 504-524-8211

Cell: 504-331-5250

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