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Born |
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Webster Grove, Missouri, 1928 |
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Education |
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Completed 8th grade, Pine Bluff,
Arkansas |
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Selected Group Exhibitions |
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2011 |
San Francisco Main Library African American Center, I Am America: Black Genealogy Through the Eye of An Artist exhibit, San Francisco, CA. |
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UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, Twentieth Annual Art With Elders traveling exhibit to various venues in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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2010 |
The Sequoias, Nineteenth Annual Art With Elders traveling exhibit to First Unitarian Universalist Church, San Francisco, CA; 2100 Franklin Tower Plaza, Oakland, CA; War Memorial Performing Arts Center, San Francisco, CA; New Federal Building, San Francisco, CA. |
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2009 |
San Francisco Main Library, Eighteenth Annual Art With Elders traveling exhibit to New Federal Building Lobby, San Francisco, CA; St. Luke's Hospital, San Francisco, CA; The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA. |
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2008 |
One Market Plaza, Seventeenth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit, San Francisco, CA, traveling exhibit to New Federal Building, San Francisco, CA; Genentech Headquarters, So. San Francisco, CA. |
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2007 |
Herbst International Exhibition Hall at the Presidio, Sixteenth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit, San Francisco, CA, traveling exhibit to City of Oakland Lionel J. Wilson Building, Oakland, CA; War Memorial Performing Arts Center, San Francisco, CA; 580 Hayes Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA. |
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2006 |
Moscone Center, Fifteenth
Annual Art With Elders Exhibit, San Francisco,
CA, traveling exhibit to Calvary Presbyterian Church, San
Francisco, CA; 201 Spear Street Building, San Francisco,
CA; San Mateo City Hall, San Mateo, CA. |
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2005 |
M. H. de Young Museum, Fourteenth
Annual Art With Elders Exhibit, San Francisco, CA, traveling
exhibit to San Francisco Visitors and Convention Bureau,
San Francisco, CA; California Institute for Integral Studies,
San Francisco, CA; Golden West Financial, Oakland, CA; Hyperion,
Santa Clara, CA. |
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2004 |
Rincon Center, Thirteenth
Annual Art With Elders Exhibit, San Francisco,
CA, traveling exhibit to War Memorial Performing Arts Center,
San Francisco, CA; One Market Plaza Building, San Francisco,
CA; Flax Art & Design,
San Francisco, CA; San Francisco Civic Center Courthouse,
San Francisco, CA; Tides Foundation, San Francisco, CA. |
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2003 |
San Francisco Main Library, Twelfth
Annual Art With Elders Exhibit, San Francisco,
CA, traveling exhibit to Hiram Johnson State Office Building,
San Francisco, CA; University of San Francisco, Koret Health
and Recreation Center, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco City
Hall, San Francisco, CA; 600 Townsend, Metromedia Headquarters,
San Francisco, CA. |
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Awards |
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2011 |
Artwork titled "Civil War Soldiers" selected for the I Am America: Black Genealogy Through the Eye of An Artist exhibit at the San Francisco Main Library African American Center, San Francisco, CA in November 2011. |
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Artwork titled "Deep Thought" selected for the Twentieth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit with an opening reception at UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA in October 2011. |
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2010 |
Artwork titled "Orange Dog" selected for the Nineteenth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit with an opening reception at The Sequoias, San Francisco, CA in October 2010. |
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2009 |
Artwork titled "Flying Through Cherry Blossoms" selected for the Eighteenth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit with an opening reception at the San Francisco Main Public Library in January 2010. |
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2008 |
Artwork titled “Ophelia” selected for the Seventeenth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit with an opening reception at One Market Plaza in San Francisco, CA. |
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2007 |
Artwork “Untitled” selected for the Sixteenth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit with an opening reception at Herbst International Exhibition Hall at the Presidio in San Francisco, CA. |
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2006 |
Artwork titled “Cargo
Ship” selected
for the Fifteenth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit
with an opening reception at the Moscone Center in San Francisco,
CA. |
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2005 |
Collage titled “Tropical
Church” selected
for the Fourteenth Annual Art With Elders
Exhibit with an opening reception at the M. H. de Young Museum
in San Francisco, CA. |
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2004 |
Painting titled “A Small Village” selected
for the "2004 Art With Elders" calendar titled “Anything
But Gray.” |
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Artwork titled “Twilight
Oasis” selected
for the Thirteenth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit
with an opening reception at the Rincon Center, San Francisco,
CA. |
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2003 |
Artwork
titled “Flying
Fish” selected
for the Twelfth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit
with an opening reception at the San Francisco Main Library,
San Francisco, CA. |
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Film:
Mrs. Brown’s Beauty – A Story of Art and
Inspiration |
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Film Festivals |
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2009 |
Offical selection for the KIBERA Film Festival, Nairobi, Kenya. |
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2008 |
Official selection for the Seventh Oakland International Film Festival, Oakland, CA, October. |
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2007 |
Official selection for the San Francisco Black Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, June. |
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Official selection for the Women of Color Arts and Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, March. |
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Film Screenings |
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2009 |
Lincoln Child Center, Oakland, CA, March. |
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Screenings in observance of Black History Month, February: Bay Area Community Services (BACS) Adult Day Care Program, Oakland, CA; North Oakland Senior Center, Oakland, CA; Berkeley Youth Alternatives, Berkeley, CA. |
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Elder Circle Oral History Project, North Oakland, CA, January. |
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2008 |
Featured at the Tenth Anniversary and Open House for the Eastmont Branch Public Library, Oakland, CA, October. |
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Screenings in observance of Older Americans Month at Lakeview, Temescal, West Oakland, Melrose, and Eastmont branch libraries, Oakland, CA, May. |
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Shown in celebration of Women’s History Month at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO), Oakland, CA, March. |
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2007 |
City of Oakland Mayor’s Commission on Aging, Oakland, CA, December. |
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National Institute of Art and Disabilities, Richmond, CA, November. |
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Featured at the Tenth Birthday Celebration of Talking Story Video, Blue Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June. |
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2006 |
Featured at the Fifteenth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, November. |
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Shown at the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Association of Personal Historians, Portland, OR, October. |
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Books |
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Thompson, N. 2011. Inspired by the Masters. CA: Self-published
limited edition. |
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Thompson,
N. 2009. The Life and Art of Inez Brown. CA: Self-published limited edition. |
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Thompson,
N. 2005. The Artwork of Inez Brown. CA: Self-published
limited edition. |
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Publications |
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Hagen, Pam. "Alameda Hospital: Mrs. Brown's Beauty,"
ELDERGIVERS Eye to Eye newsletter, June 2009. |
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Woodall, Angela. "Oakland film fest aims for the top,”
Oakland Tribune, October 10, 2008 |
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“Art and Inspiration,” Alameda Hospital Community Wellness newsletter,
October 2008. |
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Sterling, Dwight. “Senior artist Inez Brown came into her own at 74,”
Sunday Morning News, Oakland, CA, December 16, 2007. |
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Tamrat, Hanna. “Elderly
community gets creative with artwork,”
Alameda Star-Time, October 26, 2005. |
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Tamrat, Hanna. “The
elderly get creative with art,”
The
Oakland Tribune, October 25, 2005. |
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Internet |
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Mrs. Brown's Beauty, to be screened in Kenya at a KIBERA film night |
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Mrs. Brown at the Grand Lake, YouTube, October 2008. |
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Promotional Brochure |
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Photograph
of Inez Brown featured on the cover of the Eldergivers brochure,
distributed at the Fourteenth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit
at the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA, October
2005. |
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