Ms. Catlett, who was born in Washington ... art should serve a social purpose and be accessible to as many people as possible. With that in mind, she created figurative portrayals of African ...

After Barack Obama was elected, Washington ... art in retrospect. It wasn’t easy for a woman born in the 19th century to forge a career as a sculptor, and even more unlikely that an African ...

Last fall, a demolition crew working on the new home of Studio Acting Conservatory in Columbia Heights made a startling discovery behind some drywall–an enormous frieze of the Last Supper sculpted by ...

The landmark National Museum of African American History and Culture he designed was opened by President Barack Obama in Washington on ... The Tanzanian-born, British-Ghanaian architect was ...