Angela M. Rivers

Angela M. Rivers (b. Champaign, Illinois) is an African-American artist and curator, currently living in Chicago.[1]

Career

Angela has a BFA in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1975.

In 1978 she created a mural in Fifth and Park Streets[2] in north Champaign with a group of African-American students and community members.[3]

From 1978 to 1981 she studied Paul Gauguin's work at Eastern Illinois University. She then moved to Chicago to work as an art curator. She worked for the DuSable Museum of African-American History, the Chicago History Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[4]

In 2009 she was an artist-in-residence at the University of Illinois, where she did a commemoration of the anniversary of the mural in Champaign.[5]

Angela's uncle was visual artist Cecil Dewey Nelson, Jr.[6][7]

References
  1. "Park Street Mural". eblackcu.net. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  2. Brewer, Author Philip (May 19, 2010). "Champaign to lose Angela Rivers mural". Philip Brewer. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  3. Merli, Melissa. "Artist who oversaw work not in favor of restoration". The News-Gazette. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  4. "Mapping Cultural Migrations between Champaign and Chicago". AREA Chicago Archive. February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  5. Rivers, Angela (2010). Revisiting Murals: Animating Neighborhoods. University of Illinois Printing Services. hdl:2142/17077.
  6. "Barbara Suggs-Mason, Angela Rivers/Voices: The full story on Uncle Cecil". The News-Gazette. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  7. "1948 University Honors". Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. Retrieved February 14, 2020.


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