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Rainbow Sign is a unique club in Berkeley, which is geared to the role of the Black, an American Cultural Society. It was here that the all day program on black art was held. There were workshops in prison, art, arts, soul, folk, Children's art, murals, philosophy and

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perspective. One of the key people on today's program was the internationally famous black artist and sculptress Elizabeth Catlett. Artists generally project themselves towards galleries and buyers or collectors, but I want to talk about the relationship of the artist to the community, especially the black artists, to

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the black community. Why is this such a special situation? Because young black intellectuals are more interested now in directing themselves to the community than two American General might say. Elizabeth Catlett lithographs and sculpture was on exhibit at Rainbow Sign in a showing that will run through

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the end of next month. Her lithograph, Malcolm X Speaks for Us, won a national award in Mexico City in 1969. She has had major showings in Moscow, Paris, Prague, peaking Belgrad, Tokyo and Montreal. Art consultant E. J. Montgomery thinks the program of this kind has been

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long overdue. We are hoping to involve the total community in the black visual arts and the black media. What's going on, informing them of past history of the black artists in the United States and the world, also giving them some direction in which to take what

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direction the artists are working in? Are they working social themes? Abstract art? What is the meaning of all of this to a black artists in the world today is black aren't really any different than any other kind of art. Uh, yes, because it relates directly to

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the black experience, whatever it is here in America or anywhere else in the world. Um, the themes very according to the parts of the world in which they live and the things which they as an individual are involved in. But as a black person in the

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world today, uh, they have their own unique experiences and that we feel they are trying to relate in their art in some way. Black Arts Day was scheduled at this time to coincide with the first anniversary of Rainbow Sign. This is a unique club oriented toward

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black achievement and black heritage, with the accent on Music and the arts and Arnold for eyewitness news in Berkeley