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Filipino artist helped shape a 60s New York movement

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 With a qualifications straight out of a thriller-thriller on California life, artist Leo Valledor imbued the NY scene with his experience in the Filipino ghettos of SF’s Fillmore. E.A. Santamaria | Feb 27 2022 We frequently read through about how this or that Filipino artist is affected by a significant overseas art movement. Now how about a Filipino who really affected the class of a single intercontinental scene? That would be none other than Leo Valledor who under no circumstances really stepped foot in the Philippines but whose quite Filipino-ness assisted shape the Soho gallery scene in the 1960s. 
Valledor in an impression from a Park Put…
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Remembering Ed Bullins, Leading Playwright of the Black Arts Movement
Friends and colleagues of Ed Bullins, a leading Black playwright of the 1960s, whose work helped shape a protest movement within the theater centered on the African American experience, remember the former Northeastern University professor as gentle, warm, and restlessly prolific. Bullins passed away on Nov. 13 from complications of dementia. He was 86. “I found him to be very warm,” says Richard O’Bryant, the head of Northeastern’s John D. O’Bryant African American Institute. “He came from the ’60s and was a product of the civil rights movement. Of course, they carried that struggle on their sleeve, and he very much enjoyed talking about it.” O’Bryant says Bullins was deeply…
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Black Hills Post Naturalists arts movement starting in Lead | Local News
Guide — Encouraging creative imagination that goes beyond the organic entire world is the aim of the most current inventive motion in Direct. The Black Hills Publish Naturalist Movement started out this month to encourage artists in the course of the Black Hills to explore the interpretation of nature, somewhat than pure realism. The motion will characteristic month to month meetings of academic shows about historic artists whose artwork did not generally in shape the mold of realism, as very well as alternatives to generate and examine artwork. The group hopes to have at least two exhibitions, or salons, of artwork a year. Ammie Deibert, who begun the movement along…