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- Six Decades of Painting Black History
Ira Watkins paints Black history while living it He’s a self-taught visual artist who has been using dazzling colors, expressive images and hidden messages to document Black history for decades Originally from Waco, Texas, Ira left the south in 1957 on the heels of a street racing accident that knocked a house off of its foundation
- Ira Watkins: On Progress and Waco – Act Locally Waco
(Ira Watkins is an artist from Waco In 2005, he painted a mural of Dr Martin Luther King Jr on the old pier that used to support the Interurban Railroad bridge Now the old pier with its beautiful mural serves as an observation deck overlooking the Brazos near the East end of the Suspension Bridge …
- Noted illustrator of themes in African American life got his start on a . . .
The artist is Ira Watkins, an 81-year-old Texas transplant who has been homeless, did time in county jail, supported himself by hustling pool and overcame a drug habit Ira Watkins’ artwork focuses on African American life (Photos by Bill Snyder) Painting, he said, is how he turned his life around
- Ira Watkins - Artforum
With images drawn alternately from memory and imagination, self-taught artist Ira Watkins has been telling stories about the lives and histories of African Americans for more than four decades Watkins spent the first sixteen years of his life in Waco, Texas before heading to the Bay Area in 1957
- a short doc on ira watkins - YouTube
Ira Watkins is an artist currently living in San Francisco, born and raised in Waco, Texas His art has been featured all over the city and in the Dr George
- Conversations With Creative Waco - Richard C. Thomas, Ira Watkins and . . .
This week on Conversations With Creative Waco, host Rae Jefferson interviews three legendary artists who are painting murals in Waco this Summer Ira…
- Ira Watkins: Hidden Gems | Exhibitions - MutualArt
George Lawson Gallery is honored to be showing a selection of the work of painter Ira Watkins (American, b 1941), who moved to the San Francisco Bay Area from Waco, Texas in 1957 At the time, he supported himself playing billiards
- Art Center Waco
Located in the heart of Waco’s silo district, Art Center Waco serves as a space where everyone can make, view and learn about visual art
- Waco native artist returns to restore MLK mural on Brazos bridge pier
Over 12 years, Ira Watkins’ mural of Martin Luther King Jr has survived floods and a spray paint attack
- Ira Watkins | On The Dock — The ARTS at CIIS
Leaving Waco, Texas in 1957, Watkins made his way to the Bay Area and for the last six decades has been painting vibrant depictions of Black San Francisco that sit at the intersection of memory and imagination
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