Just Because She Could, She Put the World on its Side
Floyd Newsum
- 1995
- Offset Lithograph
- Image/sheet: 21.5" x 30"
- 80 prints in this edition
About the Print
Floyd Newsum
American Born November 3, 1950
About the Artist
Painter, sculptor, and printmaker Floyd Newsum earned a BFA from the Memphis Academy of Arts and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African History and Culture in Washington, DC; the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in Texas, the University of Maryland College Park, among others. Newsum lives in Houston, Texas, and works as an artist and Professor of Art at the University of Houston.
Curriculum Connections
Suggested Topics for Portraiture (in studio art and art history education), Visual Narratives, and Expressive Writing
Portraiture (in studio art and art history education), Visual Narratives, Expressive Writing:
The use of words or a combination of words, symbols, and human images to convey deeply felt emotions.
Questions to Consider
Creative people — artists, musicians, dancers, and writers — often create new works bearing witness to the death of a loved one, especially when it is a tragic death or the result of a catastrophic event like an environmental or health disaster such as COVID-19.
- Art memorials take many forms, including paintings, prints, and sculpture. Have you ever created one?
- What do you feel is the best way to represent some- one who has died?
- What metaphors can be used in art to represent someone’s death or dying?
- What symbols or elements of art reflect the passing of a human spirit and have personal meaning for you?
- If you were to create a composition from words (see Edgar Heap of Birds and Ayanah Moor), what nouns, adjectives, and adverbs would you use to convey your emotions?