Episode 248: "Five Artists"




BMA: Black Media Archive show

Summary: This episode is the documentary film "Five Artists" (1971) which spotlights the work of five accomplished Black American artists: Barbara Chase-Riboud, a sculptor living in Paris; Charles White, a painter in Los Angeles; Betty Blanton, a painter-collage artist and director of the MoMA Art School in Harlem; Richard Hunt, a sculptor in Chicago; and Romare Bearden, a New York painter who uses collages and cut-outs.