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I enjoyed my teaching career at Shaw Junior. I was there for thirty eight years and occupied the same classroom. Despite the age and the inadequate facilities of Shaw my students enjoyed a variety of activities and they learned to make marionettes and gave performances at Shaw and HHoward University art gallery. ArmstronggHigh School, for the Children;s Theatre, and throughout the city. In addition they painted, sculpted, blockprinting and ceramics and won many conpetions and their work was selected for outstanding exhibitions. You can find many of them in the different phases of the art world, during outstanding work. In my opinion, Black art is a misnomer. There are black artists and they are like all other draw from there experiences to produce artistic expessions. If this expression is non representational it is difficult or not impossible to tell whether the artist is white or non white. There can be no doubt how ever of the impact traditional Africian art has had on the world of modern art. Africian art is profound in that it was creative and not imtative. Both black and white artists have made the conditions of black people the subject of there paintings. I live at the same address since coming to Washington. With my sister Miss J. Maurice Thomas who has retired from Howard University. Who was the head of the Catology Department. and now Active in many civic organizations. and my niece Alma & Louise and grandnephenwCharles T. Lewis.
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