California African American Museum presents

Treasured Cigar Box
Assemblage Explorations of the African Diaspora

Designed by April Martin Chartrand

                                    October 6 -March 31, 2013

 

Location: Research Library 

600 State Drive - Exposition Park,

Los Angeles, CA 90037  (213) 744-7432    
Attn:  Denise McIver, Librarian 

Tues - Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 11am-5pm

http://www.caamuseum.org/web_pages/research_library.htm

 

Chartrand's Treasured Cigar Box series invites you into a world of the global slave trade perspectives between Africa, Europe, the Americas, and America (USA).  These multidimensional assemblage cigar boxes (three boxes) incorporate recycled and found objects, keys, money, and hand painted paper.

This series bridges the gap by connecting the major Colonial slave trade shareholders of the New World.  Treasured Cigar Box (series) offers knowledge and research into the deeper meaning on how the exploitative, atrocious and brutal servitude, and harvesting of tobacco by circa 12-million African Slaves fueled the beginnings of the modern day corporations.

 

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The San Francisco Public Library presents Treasured Cigar Box Assemblage Explorations of the African Diaspora Designed by April Martin Chartrand

June 23, 2012 - August 2, 2012

101 Larkin Street, 3rd Floor African American Collection

San Francisco, CA

Hours: Open during library hours.

Chartrand's Treasured Cigar Box series invites you into a world of the global slave trade perspectives between Africa, Europe, the Americas, and America (USA).  These multidimensional assemblage cigar boxes incorporate recycled and found objects, keys, money, and hand painted paper.

This series bridges a historical gap by connecting the major Colonial slave trade shareholders and their cultivation of tobacco products in the New World.  The larger European Crowns (a constitution Monarchy) which expanded their empires were: Portugal, Spain, France, Britain/England, Dutch/Netherlands, and America.  Theses countries established global trading companies, built fortified harbors and trading settlements along the coastlines of the African continent (Gore, St. Louise, Elmira, and Cape Coast . . .).  For example, the French East Indian Company was one of the first such Gold Coast corporations.  All of these counties traded in various commodities, and parceled out newly colonized territories throughout the Triangular Trade system (West Africa, Caribbean, Americas, and Europe).

The Treasured Cigar Box series offers knowledge and research into the deeper meaning of how their exploitative practices in the brutal servitude of the African slaves reaped fortunes for the Colonizers.  Finally, the planting and harvesting of tobacco by African Slaves fueled the beginnings of the modern day global corporations.

http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/sometimes-a-cigar-box-isnt-a-cigar-box/Content?oid=2186229

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The Green Arcade Invites you to a Reading by IMANI M. Harrington & APRIL Martin Chartrand

October 21, 2010, Thursday

The Green Arcade

1680 Market Street @ Gough ­ San Francisco, CA 94102 415-431-6800

7:00 p.m.—8:30 p.m.

imani m. harrington ||||| ||||april martin chartrand

‘Positive/Negative . . .’ ||||||||||||||| ‘Angel’s Destiny . . .’

Available

The Green Arcade

1680 Market Street ­ San Francisco, CA 94102

~October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month~

©2010 by Imani M. Harrington & April Martin Chartrand -

All Rights Reserved

Visual Arts Exhibit United in Peace: Visual Artists Leading the Way

Afro Solo Presents
Visual Arts Exhibit United in Peace: Visual Artists Leading the Way

http://afrosolo.org/events/events.php?kwirvrys1&id=visualarts10

When:	Sunday, August 15 – October 15 (Artist Reception August 15, 3-5pm)
Where:	Main San Francisco Public Library (100 Larkin Street at Grove), SF, CA map
Admission:	Free and open to the public

AfroSolo presents a visual art exhibition showcasing works from African American artists and artists from the African Diaspora, exploring the theme of peace.

This multi-media group show includes works from:

April Martin Chartrand (mixed media cigar boxes)

Tomye Neal-Madison (stained glass)

Malik (painting)

Justice Renaissance (wood sculpture)

Nena St. Louis (wood sculpture)

Thomas Robert Simpson (photography)

Fely Tchaco (painting)

Morrie Turner (cartoons)

Z’Ma Wyatt (photography)

Juried Art Show@ SF Women Artists = I was selected to be in this show!

I have two art pieces in this Juried art show @
the SF Women Atists SF Women Artists
3489 Sacrameto St. (Laura Village dist)
SF CA 94118


Hrs. Tues - Thr. 12-5 pm
Fri - Sat 12-5 pm
Till Aug. 17th, 2010

I just joined San Francisco Women Artists

I just joined San Francisco Women Artists (SFWA)

I hope to start showing my art work after over 15 years of not actively exhibiting.
I have been busy with school, health issues, and in 2009 published a book called
'Angel's Destiny A Novel Story of Poems & Illustrations', and
is available on www.Amazon.com

I will be dropping off my work for a juried show at SFWA on July 11, 2010, so
finger's crossed that I get in the show. If not this one, they will have others.