Art inspired by Black history with Jammie Niemeyer
Clip: Season 14 Episode 1 | 11m 32sVideo has Closed Captions
Jammie Niemeyer talks about how her ancestral roots to inform her most recent art.
Jammie Niemeyer talks about how she looked to her ancestral roots to inform her most recent art. Niemeyer did deep-dive studies of 44 people important to Black history and the Black experience in America. Niemeyer created portraits of these subjects as she learned about them and how they impacted who she is today. “It made me realize that I came from a very powerful place,” Niemeyer explains.
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Art inspired by Black history with Jammie Niemeyer
Clip: Season 14 Episode 1 | 11m 32sVideo has Closed Captions
Jammie Niemeyer talks about how she looked to her ancestral roots to inform her most recent art. Niemeyer did deep-dive studies of 44 people important to Black history and the Black experience in America. Niemeyer created portraits of these subjects as she learned about them and how they impacted who she is today. “It made me realize that I came from a very powerful place,” Niemeyer explains.
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Verlyn Kling and Jammie Niemeyer
Preview: S14 Ep1 | 40s | Listen to the stories about Verlyn Kling’s 1959 Gibson Les Paul and Jammie Niemeyer’s art. (40s)
Verlyn Kling and the Missing Les Paul
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Clip: S14 Ep1 | 16m 43s | A small-town musician with a story of a big-time guitar. (16m 43s)
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Postcards is a local public television program presented by Pioneer PBS
Production sponsorship is provided by contributions from the voters of Minnesota through a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, Explore Alexandria Tourism, Shalom Hill Farm, Margaret A. Cargil Foundation, 96.7kram and viewers like you.