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African American Art Note Cards
The diversity of art produced by African Americans, including symbolically rich paintings, cartoons, pictorial quilts, murals, vibrantly colored illustrations, and historical paintings, is celebrated in this collection of large notecards—two each of ten designs.
($15.00)
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Folio of Notecards featuring the art of Jonathan Green.
Two of Greens captivating images are included in this folio, Home Place, 1995
and Contemplation, 1999. There are 10 blank note cards (5" x 7"),
5 each of the two designs and 10 envelopes in a decorative folio.
($10.00)
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Jonathan Green: "New Hopes" boxed Note cards.
Box of 20 5" x 7" blank note cards and envelopes includes 5 cards each of the
4 designs, Just Me, Broken Swing, Forgotten Swing and New Hopes.
($15.00)
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Jonathan Green Pocket Address Book
The 3.5" x 5" pocket address book features the art of Jonathan Green
on the cover, fits snugly into your pocket or handbag and stays safely closed
with to the built-in elastic band. Spiral bound to lie flat with 112 information
pages providing space for over 400 names, addresses, home and business telephone numbers, cell phone/pager, and e-mail addresses.
($7.00) |
DVD's, CDs Recordings, Video Tapes |
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"The Language You Cry In" 1988 (52 minutes)
This film traces the history of a song, a burial hymn of the Mende people enslaved on Southeast Lowcountry rice plantations more than two hundred years ago. The song was preserved for generations in the Lowcountry, though the meaning of the words were forgotten until a pioneering African American linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin in the 1930's. In the 1990's scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone. A moving homecoming at the conclusion of the film brings the Gullah family which had preserved the song in America with the Mende villagers who re-enacted the ancient burial rights for them.
($25.00)
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"Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket" 2008 (27 minutes)
By filmmaker Dana Sardet
America's oldest African-inspired art ist he subject of this exciting new film, a visual feast that captures the skill, artistry, and history embodied in the tradition of coiled grass basketry. The film follows Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina basket makers as they harvest materias, create their baskets and talk about the meaning of their work.
Including video clips:
"African Rice & Baskets," filmed in Sierra Leone and Senegal rice growing regions where villagers today make colorful coiled baskets. (approx 6 minutes)
"A Different Day," provides an eyewitness account of basket making at the Penn School on St. Helena Island, S.C., in the early 20th century.(approx. 6 minutes) ($12.00)
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"Bin Yah: There's No Place Like Home" 2008 (60 minutes)
By The ChasDOC Film Society
Bin Yah used testimonies to explore the culture and history of the residents of
Mt. Pleasant communities, the importance of land and the concept of home, giving
a voice to those who seldom have a chance to be heard.
($35.00)
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"God's Gonna Trouble The Water"
A compelling story of the Gullah people of coastal South Carolina and Georgia and how
they forged a culture distinctly their own. For generations the Gullah people have preserved many of the rhythms, folkways, lore and music of West Africa. This is a
rich story of the music and other sources of strength of the Gullah culture.
($35.00)
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“Black Indians: An American Story”(60 minutes)
This in-depth documentary examines the coalescence of two groups in American history, Native and African Americans and brings to light a forgotten part of Americas past. The documentary points to the cultural and racial fusion of Native and African Americans and explores the issue of racial identity among the two groups. Narrated by James Earl Jones, “Black Indians: An American Story” explores what brought the two groups together, what drove them apart and the challenges they face today
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