{"id":14547,"date":"2016-02-01T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=14547"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:43:15","slug":"painting-new-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/painting-new-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting a New Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amanda<\/a><\/p>\n

In the 1950s, a group of African-American artists broke the conventional mold\u00a0by selling paintings during\u00a0a time marked with extreme discrimination and financial hardships.\u00a0Amanda Anthony, Ph.D.<\/a>, assistant professor of sociology, had the opportunity to study, research, and learn about these self-taught entrepreneurs. Dubbed The Florida Highwaymen<\/a>, these\u00a0artists navigated the Jim Crow south, often finding alternatives to traditional art galleries by traveling along the Florida\u00a0highways selling their landscape paintings from the trunks of their cars.<\/p>\n

For most, their art freed them from work in citrus groves and labor camps, and they created a body of work that has become not only a timeless collection of a natural environment, but a symbol of determination and belief in oneself. The surviving Highwaymen, now in their sixties and seventies, are an important chapter in America\u2019s culture and history. Their self-determination in the face of adversity remains an important story of perseverance, inspiration, and creativity.<\/p>\n

\"Mary<\/a>

Mary Ann Carroll-81<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Anthony\u00a0wrote her dissertation, as well as two empirical articles, based on the stories, lives, and travels of this group and their collectors. “My mentor pulled up a website and it had a description for a documentary on the Highwaymen.” Dr. Anthony said.\u00a0“I was immediately pulled in, and after more than two years of participant observation, content analyses, and 16 interviews (and 8 follow-ups) with promoters, collectors, and 13 of the 18 living artists, I was putting together my dissertation.”<\/p>\n

There are plans in place to create a film\u00a0about these traveling artists.\u00a0The film\u00a0will be titled\u00a0“The Unknowns – Talent is Color Blind”,\u00a0and it will\u00a0depict the\u00a0story of the self-taught landscape artists who piloted a new age of art during the racially turbulent 1950s and ’60s. Dr. Anthony states that, ironically, one of her empirical articles “critically analyzes the construction of their story through a theoretical lens titled color-blind racism.”<\/p>\n

“It is such an uplifting story, and each and everyone of the Highwaymen has such a great and strong individual personality, their own backgrounds, their own interests, and their own unique talents.<\/p>\n

\"Al<\/a>

Al Black 2001-24<\/p><\/div>\n

I was grateful for the opportunity to meet and speak with them, because you get a sense of that and it differentiates them, instead of the common popularized story that tends to group everyone together.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Anthony is an Assistant Professor in the\u00a0department of sociology.\u00a0Her\u00a0primary areas of research\u00a0interest include social inequalities, culture and consumption, identities, and social psychology. She also studies controlling images – stereotypes disseminated through popular media and influence our own actions.\u00a0Dr. Anthony\u00a0hopes “the movie is successful, but I also hope that it doesn’t place these artists – people – into such stereotypes.”<\/p>\n

Her teaching interests include theory, sex and gender, pop culture, and race and ethnicity. A few of her current projects include inequalities in market representations of \u201cauthenticity\u201d and identity negotiation by marginalized groups.<\/p>\n

For more information\u00a0on the Florida Highwaymen click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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