Gloria Bohanon

Gloria Bohanon (d. 6 May 2008) was an American visual artist and educator based in Los Angeles, California.[1] She was born in Atlanta, Georgia.[2] She received a BS in Art Education and a MA in Art Education from Wayne State[3] and also studied at Otis College of Art and Design in 1973.[4] She was an active member of the Los Angeles contemporary art scene in the 1970s. As a professor at Los Angeles Community College,[5] she organized "Black Culture Week" in 1974.[6] She taught design, painting, printmaking, and served as chair of the art department while there.[6] She was the director of ADAPT, an organization for disabled students (Accommodated Disabled Arts Program and Training) while at LACC.[1]

Career

Bohanon was one of the earliest members of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Black Arts Council.[7][8][9] Her work was shown with other influential African American artists who were based in LA, including "The Sapphire Show" in 1970 at Gallery 32 with Betye Saar, Suzanne Jackson, Yvonne Cole Meo, and Senga Nengudi.[10][11][12] Bohanon also showed with Betye Saar and Suzanne Jackson at Womanspace in 1973 in an exhibition titled "Black Mirror."[13] She had solo exhibitions at Alonzo and Dale Davis' Brockman Gallery. She was also included in a 1971 book Black Artists on Art, Volume 2.[3]

References
  1. "LACC President's Corner". June 2008.
  2. Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Greene, Carroll; Black Arts Council (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1972). Los Angeles 1972: a panorama of black artists (PDF). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. OCLC 56543081.
  3. "African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company".
  4. "O Mag" (PDF). 2008.
  5. "African-American Artists of Los Angeles: John W. Outterbridge". content.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  6. Jones, Kellie. (2017). South of Pico : African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s And 1970s. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-6164-0. OCLC 985011551.
  7. "Object lessons: from a manuscript globe of Mars to a Baroque female self-portrait". www.theartnewspaper.com. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  8. "Who's Who | LACMA". web.archive.org. 2014-12-15. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  9. "African-American Artists of Los Angeles: Cecil Fergerson". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  10. Jones, Kellie, 1959- (2011). Eyeminded : living and writing contemporary art. Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4861-0. OCLC 692666974.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. New thoughts on the Black arts movement. Collins, Lisa Gail,, Crawford, Margo Natalie, 1969-. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 2006. ISBN 0-8135-4107-7. OCLC 77564482.CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. "Exhibition Announcement".
  13. "LA Citywide Historic Context Statement Women's Rights in Los Angeles, 1850-1980" (PDF).
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