Resource Type

[Photograph: Three Women Having Celebratory Drinks]

Photograph of three women having celebratory drinks. On the table there is a trophy the resembles a tennis trophy. The woman on the far right is Michelle Swain Barnes, co-founder and Executive Director of the Community Artists' Collective.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Michelle Barnes and Six Children]

Photograph of Michelle Barnes and six children in front of a wall with art that the children created. There are six visible pieces of art create by the children.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Woman Accepts a Plaque]

Photograph of a woman accepting a plaque and smiling. She holds the plaque in both hands, holding it up to her chest, and looks to the left. Another woman stands along the back wall, upon which are hung art prints and posters.
Date: 1988
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Several Women with Plaques]

Photograph of several women holding award plaques and smiling. A woman (far right) is accepting a plaque while her peers smile. Three women with plaques are seated at center, and five other people stand along the back wall, decorated with art prints and paintings.
Date: 1988
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Two Women in a Gallery]

Photograph of two women standing side-by-side in a gallery, facing forward. The background of the gallery, some art pieces visible, lays behind them.
Date: 1988
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Four Women in a Gallery]

Photograph of four women standing side-by-side in an art gallery, looking forward and smiling with art pieces hung on the walls behind them. They wear coats and hats, and hold pamphlets and purses.
Date: 1988
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[A Woman Looking at a Portrait]

Photograph of a woman looking at a portrait hung on a wall in an art gallery. The portrait depicts a Black woman in a work shirt, and is lined with a simple frame. The woman looks to the left.
Date: 1988
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Denetria Greene]

Photograph of Denetria Greene, facing forward and smiling. She stands in front of a white wall and wears a shirt decorated with flowers.
Date: 1988
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Seven Artists With Their Work]

Photograph of seven women presenting their art to the photographer, standing in the left corner of a room, facing forward, and smiling. A painting inside a wooden frame is lifted from a table, on which are several fabrics of various textures and patterns. Several other tapestry-like compositions are perched on chairs and work tables at center-right, next to a lamp with painted black figures, a large painting of a black woman, and other flat pieces laid out on the table.
Date: 1989
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Autrey McNorris and Her Art]

Photograph of Autrey McNorris displaying her art at a Community Artists' Collective booth. Several golden rectangles, perhaps jewelry, are laid out on a table with a red tablecloth, with hats on a adjacent table at right and flowers and dolls on another table at left. A chalkboard, a podium, and stacks of metal chairs are placed behind the tables. McNorris stands and smiles behind the red table.
Date: 1989
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Three Boys with Art Award Trophies]

Photograph of three boys holding trophies and a ribbon for their art, placed on the wall behind them. The boy at left holds the ribbon, red and long, and two trophies, and the boy at right holds out one trophy. The drawings behind them are portraits.
Date: 1989
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Boy Painting at an Art Class]

Photograph of a young boy kneeling and painting onto a large paper on the floor. He holds a paint brush in his right hand, painting over a large square of black with a cup of water and several weighted metal blocks with round handles. Another painting, with crosscutting orange and pink marks, is laid at the bottom right.
Date: 1989
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Children at an Art Class]

Photograph of a group of children posing together for a picture during an art class. They take on different expressions, smiling, looking thoughtfully, or gazing forward. Cut-out paper drawings are glued onto the wall under a chalkboard, and other pieces of art are in the background.
Date: 1989
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Children at a Ceramic Workshop]

Photograph of children posing for a photograph during a ceramic workshop held by the Community Artists' Collective. The children are lined along a table filled with patterned cloth stripes and baked and painted ceramic pots and cups. A man stands behind the children and smiles along with most of the children.
Date: 1989
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Jean Lacy]

Photograph of Jean Lacy, seated on a couch and wearing a pleated dress. Her hands are clasped together in her lap.
Date: April 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women at a Jean Lacy Workshop]

Photograph of women working on art in a workshop run by Jean Lacy. Artwork and art materials such as glue, paint, and tape, are laid out on a long work table, with three women putting together art. Other tabls with more materials and supplies are laid out in the background.
Date: April 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Jean Lacy Making a Funny Face]

Photograph of Jean Lacy posing for a photograph by placing her hands up to the sides of her face and grimacing slightly. Before her are books, art supplies, and papers laid out on a worktable, with pamphlets and clippings pinned to a board behind her. More supplies are placed on a table in the upper right background.
Date: April 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Artists at a Community Artists' Collective Event]

Photograph of four artists posing together for a photograph at a Community Artists' Collective event. A textured screen decorated with a white wreath is behind them.
Date: 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Vicki Meek and Anastasia Sams]

Photograph of Vicki Meek and Anastasia Sams at a Texas Art Supply exhibition, one holding a young girl in her arms. A piece of art hangs from a half-wall at left.
Date: 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Women Artists on "The Black Voice"]

Photograph of two female artists seated on the set of "The Black Voice", a local talk show, with the show's host sitting at left. The set is decorated with tables and pink flowers, and the show's title is projected onto the blue stage.
Date: 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Daniel Adams Drumming with Children]

Photograph of Daniel Adams drumming with children at a drumming workshop. Children hold drumsticks with different ends and use them on tom drums and cymbals. Adams points with a drumstick at two children tapping a hi-hat, while an older boy with a pair of mallets watches, standing next to a snare drum.
Date: 1991
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Buffy Landry Stretching with Children]

Photograph of Buffy Landry stretching with children at a Children's Hour dance workshop run by the Community Artists' Collective. Landry sits on the floor with her legs out, pointing at children also seated and stretching their legs.
Date: February 2, 1991
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Annett Lawrence, Jo-ann Lawrence, and Lazette Jackson]

Photograph of Annette Lawrence, her sister Jo-ann Lawrence, and Lazette Jackson, standing together in the hallway of a building. They smile at each other and the photographer.
Date: 1991
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Artie Golden and unknown]

Promotional photograph of Artie Golden and Thomas McDaniel, his manager, both holding a 7" record in front of them. Contact information for McDaniel is listed below the photograph.
Date: 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History