In honor of Black History Month, this Zoom drawing class examines Jacob Lawrence’s screenprint The 1920’s…The Migrants Cast Their Ballots (1974). Learn to draw details from his unique, modernist depiction of African-American migrant workers in the 1920s voting for the first time. Registration Required. For ages 12 and up. To sign up please email Elena Hancock at communityprograms@sbma.net or Click Here to register.
Required supplies:
· Prismacolor ebony pencil
· Eraser
· Pencil sharpener
Lawrence created this print as part of the Kent
Bicentennial Portfolio, with artists contributing to the portfolio responding
to the question “what does independence mean to you?”.
View the inspiration image for this class on the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s online collection:http://collections.sbma.net/objects/16526/the-1920s-the-migrants-cast-their-ballots-from-the-port?ctx=ca0296fa-9046-4414-a00c-5a02da14db90&idx=1