#Roland Coretta

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Currently working on my Flarence reference sheet :3

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As a child, artist Hank Willis Thomas was told he stared too much and asked too many questions. Today, these very attributes shape his artistic practice, which pivots on the theme of perspective. “All of my work is about framing and contexts,” says the artist. “Depending on where you’re standing, it really shapes your perspective of the truth, of reality, and of what’s important.” Reading Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida, Thomas was struck by the idea of the punctum, the part of an image that impacts and stays with the viewer. Drawing from his background in photography to augment his work with other media, the artist’s sculptural works like Liberty (2015) isolate this punctum and translate it into three-dimensional space.

In his research, Thomas encountered the 1967 photobook by Ernest Cole documenting South African Apartheid. In particular, the artist was struck by an image of 13 coal miners being stripped nude for a medical examination. Rather than reproduce their exploitation and objectification, Thomas denies the viewer their naked bodies in his sculpture Raise Up (2014), instead isolating the miners’ heads and raised arms, confronting viewers with their gaze. Shortly after Thomas created Raise Up, the phrase “Hands up, Don’t shoot” became a popular protest chant in the wake of the police murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MI. As he mines history through photography, Thomas draws connections between past and present to illustrate the continuing logics of oppression that shape Black life. 

At Walla Walla Foundry in Washington, molten bronze is poured into specially designed casts to create the 609 individual pieces that will be welded together to form The Embrace (2023), a public memorial to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King to be installed in the Boston Common. The sculpture depicts two sets of arms intertwined in a loving embrace, referencing a photograph of the Kings embracing after Martin won the Nobel Prize in 1964. Envisioning his work as being as much about each of us as it is about the Kings, Thomas creates space for the public to engage with the sculpture physically and ensures it is accessible to as many people as possible. “I’d like to believe this is just the beginning of a new way of thinking about how public space can be viewed, and how we reflect on the past with care and concern for the future,” says Thomas.

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#Repost @wonderwombman ・・・ You know Coretta Scott King for her civil rights activism and being a wife to Martin Luther King Jr., however, few know that in her early life, Coretta was a well-known singer and violin player. Another interesting twist is that the young soprano won a fellowship to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, the city where she met future husband King, who was a doctoral candidate at Boston University’s School of Theology. According to Coretta, she inherited her musical talents from her mother, who sang in the church because “there was no place else to sing for her when I was growing up.” Life in segregated Alabama was tough but it was here she had her early music education, singing solos in the church as well in school. “I became the star pupil that the teacher showed off with when the dean supervisor came around.” Upon hearing classical music for the first time, she purposed to study music because she liked it and also because of a teacher she encountered. In an interview conducted in Chicago in 2004, Coretta explained more. “In high school, I had a teacher who influenced me greatly, Miss Olive J. Williams, and she was versatile in music, and I wanted to be like her. She exposed me to black performers, which I didn’t know about at the time: Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Roland Hayes and Dorothy Maynor and others.” “So I got my foundation and my beginning there, and then, at Antioch, I built on that with another teacher named Walter Anderson. He was the one who eventually encouraged me to apply when I graduated from Antioch to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston,” she added. For Coretta, music was her first love and it was also through music that she met her second love and future husband, King. They married in June 1953, after announcing their engagement in the Atlanta Daily World on Valentine’s Day of the same year. A move to Montgomery, Alabama was the next step after Coretta finished her degree in voice and piano. Whiles King was called to pastor the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, she continued to perform. (SWIPE LEFT) (CLICK PICS) #Follow @wonderwombman @wonderwombman2 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb2pPysrhHL/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Coretta Scott during her time at the New England Conservatory of Music. Why Coretta Scott King called music her “first love” but gave her up her career as a singer Coretta Scott King described her early music education in a segregated Alabama in an interview with the National Visionary Leadership Project. She said she inherited her musical talents from her mother, who sang in church because “there was no place else to sing for her when I was growing up.” Later, King sang solos in church herself, as well in school and said, “I became the star pupil that the teacher showed off with when the dean supervisor came around. I grew up in the country and we went to this one-room school, a big one-room. I would be the pupil that she asked to sing, or to recite a poem. And of course, I just accepted it as the fact that I could do it and that’s why she was asking me to do it.” Later, she said, “I got the notion that I would really like to study music because when I heard classical music for the first time, I liked it.” In an interview conducted in Chicago in 2004, King explained more about how she came to love classical music. “In high school, I had a teacher who influenced me greatly, Miss Olive J. Williams, and she was versatile in music, and I wanted to be like her. She exposed me to the world of classical music. Before then, I had never heard classical music. She exposed me also to the great composers of the world, as well as black performers, which I didn't know about at the time: Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Roland Hayes and Dorothy Maynor and others.” “So I got my foundation and my beginning there, and then, at Antioch, I built on that with another teacher named Walter Anderson. He was the one who eventually encouraged me to apply when I graduated from Antioch to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.” She decided to pursue additional advanced education because at Antioch, “I couldn't get a full music degree but I always wanted to study music; that was my first love.” During her time at New England Conservatory, Coretta met her future husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. They married in June 1953, after announcing their engagement in the Atl Daily. https://www.instagram.com/demdread/p/BvZwHX-FZvC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8ipsh6kv6x4b

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The Rock and the River (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent)

Kekla Magoon

In 1968 Chicago, it’s not easy for thirteen-year-old Sam to be the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older brother, Stick, starts keeping to himself. Then, one day, Sam finds something under Stick’s bed that changes everything: literature about the Black Panthers. Suddenly, nothing feels certain anymore. And when Dr. King is shot and killed, Sam’s father’s words are no longer enough to make him believe in change….This moving, coming-of-age story gracefully encompasses the scope of the struggle between the civil rights and black power movements through an intimate and relatable lens.

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You know Coretta Scott King for her civil rights activism and being a wife to Martin Luther King Jr., however, few know that in her early life, Coretta was a well-known singer and violin player. Another interesting twist is that the young soprano won a fellowship to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, the city where she met future husband King, who was a doctoral candidate at Boston University’s School of Theology. According to Coretta, she inherited her musical talents from her mother, who sang in the church because “there was no place else to sing for her when I was growing up.” Life in segregated Alabama was tough but it was here she had her early music education, singing solos in the church as well in school. “I became the star pupil that the teacher showed off with when the dean supervisor came around.” Upon hearing classical music for the first time, she purposed to study music because she liked it and also because of a teacher she encountered. In an interview conducted in Chicago in 2004, Coretta explained more. “In high school, I had a teacher who influenced me greatly, Miss Olive J. Williams, and she was versatile in music, and I wanted to be like her. She exposed me to black performers, which I didn’t know about at the time: Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Roland Hayes and Dorothy Maynor and others.” “So I got my foundation and my beginning there, and then, at Antioch, I built on that with another teacher named Walter Anderson. He was the one who eventually encouraged me to apply when I graduated from Antioch to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston,” she added. For Coretta, music was her first love and it was also through music that she met her second love and future husband, King. They married in June 1953, after announcing their engagement in the Atlanta Daily World on Valentine’s Day of the same year. A move to Montgomery, Alabama was the next step after Coretta finished her degree in voice and piano. Whiles King was called to pastor the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, she continued to perform. (SWIPE LEFT) (CLICK PICS) #Follow @wonderwombman @wonderwombman2 https://www.instagram.com/p/CLg7FqyA29h/?igshid=xtjilj45zwzw