Alice Patrick | |
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Born | 1948 Los Angeles |
Alma mater | Art Center College of Design, Otis Art Institute |
Known for | Murals |
Alice Patrick (born 1948) is an American muralist and sculptor. Her murals are recognized by the City of Los Angeles as the first painted within the city by an African-American woman. [1]
Patrick was born and raised in Los Angeles where she studied first at the Art Center College of Design and later at the Otis Art Institute. [2] She is also a former elementary school art teacher. [3]
Patrick was part of the Citywide Mural Project in Los Angeles. [2] She painted in South Los Angeles, [4] however, her mural of historic women in Black History, completed in the mid-1970s, was destroyed soon after its completion. [2] One of her later murals, "Women Do Get Weary (but They Don't Give Up" (1991) was sponsored by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). [5] The mural shows images of Mary McCleod Bethune, Dorothy Height, Oprah Winfrey, Josephine Baker and others. [6] Patrick painted herself into the mural as well. [2] The mural is approximately nine feet by sixteen feet and is painted in acrylic on stucco. [2] In 2013, the mural underwent restoration by SPARC in order to fix the peeling paint and faded colors. [7]
In the 1990s Patrick was selling limited edition prints of activists involved in the civil rights movement. [8] Cooper's Originals, a gallery in Los Angeles, helped promote her work, marketing her reproductions. [9] Later, she opened her own gallery called Aliceland, which she ran for ten years. [10]
Alice Patrick | |
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Born | 1948 Los Angeles |
Alma mater | Art Center College of Design, Otis Art Institute |
Known for | Murals |
Alice Patrick (born 1948) is an American muralist and sculptor. Her murals are recognized by the City of Los Angeles as the first painted within the city by an African-American woman. [1]
Patrick was born and raised in Los Angeles where she studied first at the Art Center College of Design and later at the Otis Art Institute. [2] She is also a former elementary school art teacher. [3]
Patrick was part of the Citywide Mural Project in Los Angeles. [2] She painted in South Los Angeles, [4] however, her mural of historic women in Black History, completed in the mid-1970s, was destroyed soon after its completion. [2] One of her later murals, "Women Do Get Weary (but They Don't Give Up" (1991) was sponsored by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC). [5] The mural shows images of Mary McCleod Bethune, Dorothy Height, Oprah Winfrey, Josephine Baker and others. [6] Patrick painted herself into the mural as well. [2] The mural is approximately nine feet by sixteen feet and is painted in acrylic on stucco. [2] In 2013, the mural underwent restoration by SPARC in order to fix the peeling paint and faded colors. [7]
In the 1990s Patrick was selling limited edition prints of activists involved in the civil rights movement. [8] Cooper's Originals, a gallery in Los Angeles, helped promote her work, marketing her reproductions. [9] Later, she opened her own gallery called Aliceland, which she ran for ten years. [10]