{"id":17363,"date":"2022-02-08T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/mary-edmonia-wildfire-lewis-a-black-history-month-profile\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T18:10:16","slug":"mary-edmonia-wildfire-lewis-a-black-history-month-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/mary-edmonia-wildfire-lewis-a-black-history-month-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Edmonia Wildfire Lewis, A Black History Month Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Black History Month!<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will be highlighting trailblazers from the black community that have left their mark in the 518!<\/p>\n<p>This week, we&#8217;re celebrating Mary Edmonia Wildfire Lewis, a sculptor and Greenbush (now Rensselaer) native.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was the first African American and Native American sculptor to gain international acclaim.<\/li>\n<li>Her father was Haitian and her mother was Ojibwe, \u201cChippewa.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>She lived in Boston, London, Florence and Rome, sculpting her most prominent marble works in Rome.<\/li>\n<li>Her sculptures can be found at the Howard University Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art.<\/li>\n<li>In January, the USPS honored her with a stamp in their Black Heritage Series.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had not room for a colored sculptor.\u201d<br \/>\n~Mary Edmonia Wildfire Lewis<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a video detailing more about Lewis&#8217; life: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tF0Tc3_bpoQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tF0Tc3_bpoQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out ODEI\u2019s Facebook (@HVCCODEI) and Instagram (@hvcc_odei) throughout the month where we\u2019ll continue to celebrate black history!<\/p>\n<p>In solidarity,<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Miller<br \/>\nTechnical Assistant<br \/>\nOffice of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:k.miller1@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">k.miller1@hvcc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:10:16 +0000 by\u00a0k.miller1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Happy Black History Month! The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will be highlighting trailblazers from the black community&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}