Joe Minter

Joe Minter
Born
Joe Wade Minter Sr

(1943-03-28) March 28, 1943 (age 81)
Birmingham, Alabama
NationalityAmerican

Joe Minter (born March 28, 1943) is an African American sculptor based in Birmingham, Alabama.[1][2] His African Village in America, on the southwest edge of Birmingham, is an ever-evolving art environment populated by sculptures he makes from scrap metal and found materials;[3] its theme is recognition of African American history from the first arrivals of captured Africans to the present.[4] Individual pieces from Minter's thirty-year project have been in major exhibitions in the United States and are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.

  1. ^ "1943 – JOE MINTER". Souls Grown Deep.
  2. ^ Tortorello, Michael (April 24, 2013). "Joe Minter's African Village in America". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  3. ^ Times, Birmingham (October 14, 2021). "Artist Joe Minter's renowned "African Village in America" in SW Birmingham". The Birmingham Times. Retrieved September 24, 2022.
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