Gloria Bohanon

Gloria Racine Bohanon (June 19, 1938 – May 7, 2008)[1] was an American visual artist and educator based in Los Angeles, California.[2] She was born in Atlanta, Georgia.[3] She received a BA in Art Education and an MA in Art Education from Wayne State.[4] She also studied at Otis College of Art and Design in 1973.[5] She was an active member of the Los Angeles contemporary art scene in the 1970s. As a professor at Los Angeles Community College,[6] she organized "Black Culture Week" in 1974.[7] She taught design, painting, printmaking, and served as chair of the Arts Department while there.[7] She was the director of ADAPT, an organization for disabled students (Accommodated Disabled Arts Program and Training) while at LACC.[2]

  1. ^ United States Social Security Death Index. FamilySearch. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "LACC President's Corner". June 2008. Archived from the original on 2020-06-25.
  3. ^ Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Greene, Carroll; Black Arts Council (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1972). Los Angeles 1972: a panorama of black artists (PDF). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. OCLC 56543081.
  4. ^ "African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company".
  5. ^ "Class Notes; In Memoriam: Gloria Bohanon ('73)" Archived 2021-04-18 at the Wayback Machine O Mag. 2008. p. 29.
  6. ^ "African-American Artists of Los Angeles: John W. Outterbridge". content.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  7. ^ a b Jones, Kellie. (2017). South of Pico : African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s And 1970s. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-6164-0. OCLC 985011551.