Benny andrews biography

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  • Benny Andrews is born on Novem, in Plainview, Georgia, a farming community three miles from Madison, to George and Viola Andrews.

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  • The following is an illustrated timeline of Benny Andrews’ biography.

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      The following is an illustrated timeline of Benny Andrews’ biography.

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  • Born in Plainview, Georgia, Andrews earned a BFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1958, and soon after moved to New York.

    • Benny Andrews Biography – Benny Andrews on artnet

      Benny Andrews (Novem – Novem) was an African-American artist, activist and educator.

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      Benny Andrews, nationally recognized as an artist, teacher, author, activist, and advocate of the arts, grew up in rural Morgan County.
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  • Benny Andrews, nationally recognized as an artist, teacher, author, activist, and advocate of the arts, grew up in rural Morgan County.

    • Benny Andrews

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    Benny Andrews (November 13, 1930 – November 10, 2006) was an African-American artist, activist and educator.

    Born in Plainview, Georgia, Andrews earned a BFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1958, and soon after moved to New York. He is known for his expressive, figurative paintings that often incorporated collaged fabric and other material. Andrews helped found the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, which agitated for greater representation of African-American artists and curators in New York’s major art museums in the late 1960s and 70s. He also led the group in founding an arts education program in prisons and detention centers.

    Andrews taught art at Queens College for three decades, and from 1982 to 1984, served as the Director of the Visual Arts Program for the National Endowment for the Arts.[1] He received many awards, including the John Hay Whitney Fellowship (1965–66), the New York Council on

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      Benny Andrews (Novem – Novem) was an African-American painter, printmaker, and creator of collages.