National Medal of Arts

She won Emmys, Medals, and even was in the Culinary Hall of Fame. She didn’t always make her food perfectly, she wanted the world to see her mistakes. It didn’t matter that she messed up on camera. Before her cooking came to fame, she was heading into a very different…

Maya Lin is an American architect and sculptor best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Maya Lin was received her bachelor's degree from Yale, where she studied architecture and sculpture. During her senior year she won a nationwide competition to create a design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Her minimalist design aroused controversy but has become very popular with the public over the years. Born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio, Maya Lin is the…

located in Arlington National Cemetery, and is the most iconic memorial in the cemetery. The Tomb is not only the final resting place for three unknown service members, it is also a place of mourning and a place for reflection on military service. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located in Arlington National Cemetery. It is located towards the back of Arlington National Cemetery on the west bank of the Potomac with a building that has an amphitheater behind it. Arlington National Cemetery…

2004, a federal judge took the issue seriously enough to appoint former Detroit mayor Dennis Archer as a guardian ad litem for Parks. Parks received numerous awards, including an honorary degree from Shaw College in Detroit, the 1979 NAACP Spingarn Medal, and an annual Freedom Award presented in her…

Marianne Moore was a small town girl, born around St. Louis Missouri. She moved around alot in her life. When Marianne Moore was reaching adolescence, her father left her and her mother, leaving them with no money to keep their house. So they had to move to her grandfather's house and stay there until his death. Which was on 1894. They just moved from one relative to another until the big move to carlisle, PA. Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a BA degree in biology in 1909. Following…

African Americans occurred in every aspect of art. Blacks were able to generate…

mother was Minnie Pattillo Taylor married Thomas Taylor in Autauga County in Texas. She was very active when trying to stand up for women's rights. Claudia graduated high school and decided to attend the University of Texas with a bachelor’s degree in art because she wanted to be a newspaper reporter. Claudia was honored with the country’s highest civilian award. The highest…

education at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. In 1954 along with fellows Edward Sorel, Seymour Chwast, and Reynold Ruffins, he co-founded Push Pin Studios. The new approach to philosophy and personal view of the Push Pin Studio artists created a worldwide stir in design. The Push Pin studio of illustration and graphic design was an alternative to the narrative illustration of the past. Its work had a revival of the nineteenth century (Victorian, Art Nouveau and Art Deco), trends in pop…

Confession by Hermann von Kaulbach is located at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California (Figure 1). The Crocker Art Museum was originally built by the Crocker family in 1872. Ironically, the museum was built during the lifetime of Hermann Kaulbach. The Crocker is a California Historical Landmark and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It houses over fifteen thousand items including American Art, European Art, Photography and Ceramics. In 2010 a new pavilion was added…

Harper Lee: The 20th Century’s Super Woman. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…” (Lee, 39) Nelle Harper Lee, born on April 28, 1926, grew up in Monroeville, Alabama. In 1960, at age 32, Lee published her Pulitzer prize-winning novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird ‘ Harper Lee led a successful life, including the publishings of two novels, until her death in 2016. Named after her grandmother, Ellen, Nelle Harper Lee, was born to Frances…