{"id":6480,"date":"2021-08-19T17:22:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2021-08-19T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:26:13","slug":"african-american-artist-steve-r-allen-is-gifting-hbcus-with-multi-million-dollar-artwork-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/african-american-artist-steve-r-allen-is-gifting-hbcus-with-multi-million-dollar-artwork-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"African-American Artist Steve R. Allen Is Gifting HBCUs With Multi-Million Dollar Artwork Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"
“Freedom Journey” by Steve R. Allen<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The renowned, eight-time Olympic Atlanta-based artist Steve R. Allen is generating opportunities for the artistically inquisitive Black youth through a new and generous initiative, where Allen will gift his own multi-million dollar artwork to historically Black colleges and universities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allen, who has five artworks that have found their permanent home at the Smithsonian Museum of Art, has created new \u201cmuseum editions\u201d of these esteemed pieces for the gifting initiative. By placing African-American art in these schools, this will create room for necessary discussions about the art world and inspire young artists to follow their creative dreams. Along with the donations, Allen will also hold lectures about art as a business, and discuss how artists of color can bring visibility to their work in an environment that often rejects them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Steve R. Allen<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[The initiative] will give the young people \u2013 and some of them not so young \u2013 an opportunity to see some of this work up close and personal,\u201d Allen said in conversation with Lois Reitzes of WABE<\/a>. \u201cAlso, I live not far from the AIDS center, and we have discussed my doing some symposiums and some conferences, and possibly some in-person classes with the young people so that they can see that in the art field, that it\u2019s possible to go from being born in a one-room shack, which I was, to having your work in the greatest museum in the world, the Smithsonian.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
“Together We Reign” by Steve R. Allen<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2008, Allen established the Steve R. Allen Foundation, which operates art programs globally and primarily focuses on bringing art to young aspiring artists. Based in Atlanta, Allen\u2019s goal is to help expose the youth to the vast world of visual arts and bring opportunities for one-on-one mentorship. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are very few opportunities to interact with an actual living and working artist,\u201d said Allen. \u201cFor them to be able to see someone like myself because I was one of those little children at one time, it\u2019s very important to me. Hopefully, it inspires them.\u201d\u00a0Learn more about the Steve R. Allen foundation and how you can help support young artists throughout the world by visiting www.steverallenfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The renowned, eight-time Olympic Atlanta-based artist Steve R. Allen is generating opportunities for the artistically inquisitive Black youth through a new and generous initiative, where Allen will gift his own multi-million dollar artwork to historically Black colleges and universities. Allen, who has five artworks that have found their permanent home at the Smithsonian Museum of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1169,149,31,1167,1168],"class_list":["post-6480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-atlanta-artist","tag-black-art","tag-featured","tag-hbcu-art","tag-steve-r-allen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}