Poster Collection

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  Poster, The Florida Highwaymen, 2005

  Studio at 620, Florida Humanities Council, Bob Devin Jones, Alfred Hair, James Gibson, and Gary Monroe

  The Highwaymen is the name given to a group of young African American artists who came together in the late 1950's in the area of Fort Pierce, Florida. They were and are painters of the Florida landscape. Identifying themselves as 'Colorists,' they painted the real and the imagined landscapes of Florida with colors and forms that captured the raw energy of the land. Drawing on their own cultural heritage, they abandoned the formal academic approach to representation and instead took from their own deep interior landscape a unique creative energy. They used this energy to construct a mythology of images that have the ability to touch everyone who sees them. An exhibition of paintings...to include lectures by scholars, visits and demonstrations by artists as well as sales of their paintings, a brunch and a theatrical event written by BDJ highlighting the rough civil rights period in which the Highwaymen worked.

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  Poster, Grand Ma's Hands: One Hundred Years of African-American Quilting, 2004

  Studio at 620, Sangoyemi A. Ogunsanwa, Bob Devin Jones, and Dave Ellis

  This is the grand opening of The Studio@620 and was part of the City of St. Petersburg First Night Celebration. The Hallelujah Singers from Beaufort, South Carolina performed at the official opening on December 31. The program was Juba-a mi of many types of music and Gullah. Numerous quilts dating from 1880-1970 made by African-Americans (2 barkloths from The Kingdom of Kuba, Africa; 2 Gee's Bend quilts/multiple quilts are also displayed at The Arts Center.