Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with James Phillips
James Phillips
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| Other authors / contributors: | Phillips, James, 1945- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2013 August 5.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Visual artist James Phillips was born in 1945, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended New York's Printing Trade School. Phillips became a member of the Harlem-founded Weusi Artist Collective in the mid-1960s, going on to study at the Philadelphia College of Art, followed by a brief affiliation with the Lee Cultural Center in 1968. Phillips attended the Fleisher Art Memorial School in Philadelphia during the 1970s, and he earned his M.F.A. degree from the Maryland Institute of Art in 1998. Phillips joined the Chicago-based artist group AfriCobra in 1973. He served as a mural consultant and lecturer in the art department at Howard University in 1976 where he would eventually become an assistant professor of foundation and painting. His work incorporates African patterns and designs throughout his composition. Phillips participated in over seventy group and solo exhibitions in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally. His work was included in several well-known collections.
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