Beliphone

Media: TexasSouthern/HCAC.TSU.0051/DSC_3430-2.jpg; TexasSouthern/HCAC.TSU.0051/DSC_3430.jpg

Original Title: Beliphone
Date: 2000
Creator: John T. Biggers See all items with this value
Description: This Biggers print shows a figure playing a balafon, with a sankofa bird overhead. The balafon is a West African percussion and the sankofa bird signifies the importance of the past in improving the future. Taken together, they show the importance of music in preserving culture.
Primary Subject: 2000- See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value; Music See all items with this value; HBCU leadership See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Afrocentrism; Black art; Educators; Faculty; Musical instruments; Performers
Type: Print
Medium: print
Additional Techniques: lithography
Measurements: 29 1/2 in x 24 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: pc165
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0051
Rights: All rights held by the University Museum at Texas Southern. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact University Museum, Texas Southern University umuseum@gmail.com Attn: Museum Director. Materials not created by Texas Southern University may still be under copyright. Additional materials may be presented for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law.
Contributing Institution: Texas Southern University
Collection: Permanent Collection See all items with this value

Item sets: Art; HBCU Art: No Less Lovely Being Dark; Texas Southern University Collections