Community Folk Arts Central... Art  Moves!

...cover is a major Dry Brush Acrylic Painting from the 70's on an news incident in So. Africa 

and a quote from W.E.B. Dubois about the inevitability of revolt in a racist society. 

I used the news clip in the Painting.

The rest of the video is a sampling of Designer Thrift Shops early days, paintings and sculptural works. Wood Work /  Carving was practiced by my Father, but I taught him to carve walking sticks and that became his major art form. I was carving wood and  canes in the 70's and 80's. 

My Father passed in 2004 the year that I graduated from Syracuse University, finishing my BFA in Painting at age 55. 

I went back after leaving Albany, N.Y. during the recession...where I had a two decade long career as an Artist  / Educator / Performer

 ( African Percussion )

"The Little Boy"...one of the few early drawings that I never titled....one of my foundational drawing styles...months and months - with a Crow Quill Dip Pen...from a drawing in #2 pencil taken from a photo in Ebony Magazine...Archive video C Barry R Irving 1972

...this work became known as The Little Boy which is what most people called it. it became by best selling work ever offered for sale @ $5 ( Print ), $10 matted and $35.00 Framed...all one thousand prints are gone except foe one which I have.