Melvin Edwards – Black History Month 2021 #BlackHistoryMonth #Art
Melvin Edwards has been creating powerful works for over 60 years. His sculptures feature themes of Black stuggle and triumphs. Check some of his work coming up in May; outdoors, in NYC!
…The exhibition will explore two key recurring motifs—the chain and the rocker—which carry deep personal symbolism and speak to African-American culture. Edwards uses chain links in different formal iterations: to suggest oppression, but also connection and linkage between generations and communities, and broken chains to evoke liberation or rupture. His practice combines geometric and abstract forms that expand the formal and conceptual boundaries of contemporary sculpture, while drawing on personal experiences and his engagement with the history of race, labor, violence, and themes of the African Diaspora. Brighter Days will resonate with City Hall Park’s history as an African burial ground, the site of the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, and more recently the 2020 occupation of City Hall and Black Lives Matter protests.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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