iona rozeal brown:all falls down

iona rozeal brown, African American artist originally from Washington, DC who has earned accolades for her expressive imagination and aesthetic which has been greatly influenced by Japanese, Ukiyo-e from the metropolitan culture of Edo (Tokyo) perhaps as a result of a trip she made to Japan.

Her innovate style, coined as “a3″ or “afro-asiatic allegory” and the collection "Black on Both Sides" is presented online by Curator Dr. Andrea Barnwell of Spelman College, Museum of Fine Art.
Honored with the 2009 Joyce Award in Visual Art by the Joyce Foundation in Chicago, IL which also commissioned iona rozeal brown to create new work based on JUkiyo-e prints from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. The collection is entitled all falls down which is on display until May 9, 2010.

It is her first museum exhibition of her work in the William D. Ginn Gallery and Dr. Gerald and Phyllis Seltzer Rotunda Gallery along with a series entitled "From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art" which is a compilation of works from a contributors, Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, the Akron Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Both exhibitions should be exciting for children to experience and may it motivate them to be expressive as well.