Georgette Seabrooke

Georgette Seabrooke (aka Georgette Seabrooke Powell;b. 1916), is an American muralist, artist, illustrator, art therapist and educator.

Biography

Seabrooke was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and grew up in the New York City neighborhood of Yorkville, Manhattan. Her mother, widowed when Georgette was a child, was domestic housekeeper, and Georgette started working with her mother. She graduated from Washington Irving High School.Artworks This Week: [http://www.mpt.org/artworks/thisweek/archive/2006/061122.cfm Wednesday, November 22, 2006: Georgette Seabrooke Powell] . - Maryland Public Television - November 22, 2006. - Retrieved: 2008-07-05] She studied at the with James Wells at the Harlem Art Workshop, and with Gwendolyn B. Bennett at the Harlem Community Art Center.The Artists: [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/wpa/artists/gseabrooke.html Georgette Seabrooke] . - Harlem Hospital WPA Murals. - Columbia University. - Retrieved: 2008-07-05]

When the Harlem Hospital Center mural project selected her to receive a commission (her work "Recreation in Harlem"), she was the youngest master artist to attended the prestigious Cooper Union in New York City and became an award-winning art student. At age 18, in 1935, the Federal Art Project (FAP) for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) chose Seabrooke for a mural at Queen's General Hospital, Long Island (the required age was supposed to be 21).

After Seabrooke got married and started a family with three children, she began illustrating calendars and magazines.

She went to Fordham University and studied theater design. Seabrooke moved to Washington, D.C. in 1959, and using scraps and found materials she developed an assemblage, compositions at style. She founded Operation Heritage Art Center (now: Tomorrow's World Art Center) in 1970. In 1972 she became a registered art therapist, and the following year earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Howard University. She was very active in combing art with mental-health therapy, teaching at the Tomorrow's World Art Center and at Malcolm X Park for the "Art in the Park" events.

Works

* "Grandmothers's Birthday" - Johnson Publishing Company - Chicago, Illinois
* Hampton Institute - Hampton, Virginia
* New York Public Library - New York City, New York
* Anacostia Museum - Washington D.C.
* Library of Congress - Washington D.C.
* Baltimore Museum of Art - Baltimore, Maryland
* Chicago Public Library - Chicago, Illinois
* Center for African American History and Culture - Washington D.C.

Awards

* 1935: Cooper Union School of Fine Arts - Silver medal for painting
* 2001: Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts
* 2002: D.C. Hall of Fame Society - Legacy Award
* 2005: Duke Ellington School of Arts

Exhibits

* 1993: "Radiance and Reality" (one woman show) - Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
* 1995: "Art Changes Things" - Smithsonian Institute - Anacostia Museum

ee also

*List of WPA artists

References

Further reading

* Farrington, Lisa E., (2005). - "Creating Their Own

* Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller, (1995). - "North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary". - New York: Garland. ISBN 9780824060497

External links

* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/wpa/murals/recreation.html "Recreation in Harlem"] - Columbia University