What an honor it was to be at an event like today! The city of San Jose dedicated a street after @BarackObama and asked me to do live a painting. đ¨ It was an awesome day, thank you Mayor @sliccardo and senator @DaveCortese for having me âđž@BarackObama @ChelseaClinton pic.twitter.com/fOSu1budZq
— Tyler Gordon (@tygordonsworld) August 23, 2021
Posts Tagged ‘painting
14
Dec
20
Patron Of The Arts
31
Aug
20
Keeping Breonna Alive Forever
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For more than 20 years, Amy Sherald has been putting the narratives of Black families and Black people to canvas. In 2016, she became the first woman and first African American to win the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, which led to her painting Michelle Obama for the National Portrait Gallery in 2018. That oil-on-linen portrait was her first commissioned workâuntil Breonna Taylor. Taylor is an âAmerican girl, she is a sister, a daughter, and a hard worker. Those are the kinds of people that I am drawn towards,â says Sherald, who is immunosuppressed and has been unable to participate in protests. She calls this portrait a contribution to the âmoment and to activismâproducing this image keeps Breonna alive forever.â
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Sheraldâs process typically begins with taking a picture of her subject. Painting Taylor, a person she had never met, who would never be able to sit for her, presented a unique challenge. Sherald took extraordinary care in reimagining Taylor, inflecting her portrait with symbols of the 26-year-oldâs life. Sherald found a young woman with similar physical attributes, studied Taylorâs hairstyles and fashion choices, and drew inspiration from things she learned about the young womanâthat she had been a frontline worker in the battle against COVID-19; that her boyfriend had been about to propose marriage; that she was self-possessed, brave, loving, loved.
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22
Nov
13
Early Bird Chat
On a tour of the State Floor of the White House, President Obama looks at a portrait of John F. Kennedy by Aaron Shikler, January 24, 2009 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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Morning everyone.
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Jul
13
Holding Tight
Artist Robert Trujillo holds his son Saja Duchicela-Trujillo in front of a mural of Trayvon Martin he is working on at the Youth Radio Building in Oakland, Calif. Trujillo is with the group “Trust Your Struggle,” an artist collective in the Bay Area.
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Nov
12
Welcome, Willard
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talk in the Oval Office following their lunch, Nov. 29, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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02
May
12
Scream. Very loudly.
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16
Jan
12
day of service
President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama (C) and their daughter Malia (2nd-L)
President Obama playfully shushes himself as he greets the librarian
 A paper-collage of first lady Michelle Obama hangs on a wall at the Browne Education Campus
President Obama participates in a community service project in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Browne Education Campus in Washington
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., FEDERAL HOLIDAY, 2012
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
On a hot summer day nearly half a century ago, an African American preacher with no official title or rank gave voice to our Nation’s deepest aspirations, sharing his dream of an America that ensured the true equality of all our people. From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired a movement that would push our country toward a more perfect Union.
At a time when our Nation was sharply divided, Dr. King called on a generation of Americans to be “voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion.” His example stirred men and women of all backgrounds to become foot soldiers for justice, and his leadership gave them the courage to refuse the limitations of the day and fight for the prospect of tomorrow. Because these individuals showed the resilience to stand firm in the face of the fiercest resistance, we are the benefactors of an extraordinary legacy of progress.
Read the full proclamation here
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Oct
11
‘rebuilding together’
First lady Michelle Obama greets Army Sgt. Johnny Agbi with Jill Biden during a Joining Forces initiative event in Washington. Sears, Rebuilding Together and volunteers will complete the retrofit on Sgt. Agbi’s home to make it wheelchair accessible. Sgt. Agbi was injured while serving in Afghanistan
First lady Michelle Obama paints in the home of Army Sgt. Johnny Agbi
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