mel edwards

A passionate artist with a global, African diasporic perspective, Melvin Edwards was born in Houston, Texas in 1937 and grew up in the segregated south. When he was in high school, an art teacher introduced him to abstraction, and Edwards decided to study art in Los Angeles, a move that also offered “the only way to get out of Texas at the time.” … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: African American Sculptors