WorksheetsKara Walker-American Artist
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
One of Walker's large linoleum silhouette created in 1997 was titled
The Keeper of the Slaves
The Keys to the Coop
Cooped Up!
The Key to Freedom
Walker's installation "GONE" historically shows
Life on a plantation
the slave trade
the romance of the Civil War
the realities of the old south
Walker's art if the release of
monochrome imagery
a traditionally proper Victorian medium
watrmark drippings
delicately carved scuptures
Walker's work shows a type of reality remeniscent of
the 20th century
Mississippi
Antebellum
the 1800s
The unique thing about Walker's Marvelous Sugar Baby project was
it was set on a plantation
it romantized freedom
it included many layers of black history
slaves once harvested sugar
Kara used her artistic platform to depict
social issues
colorful history lessons
an understanding of geometric shapes
the use of watercolors
A large scale project of Walker's was installed here
an art museum
an abondoned warehouse
an empty oil refinery
a sugar refinery
Where Kara Walker moved to at age 13
Compton
California
Georgia
Vermont
Award won by Walker-she was youngest at the time of receiving
Scholarship for Young Arists
a scholarship to Georgia Unviersity
The MacArthur Fellowship
The Atlanta Fellowship
Where Walker earned her bachelor's degree
Georgia University
Atlanta College
MacArthur University
Stockton College of FIne Arts
Kara Walker's 16mm film that tells story of slaves via shadow puppets
Plantations
Gone
Testimony
WItness
Kara Walker's art included silhouettes done is
brilliant colors
tissue paper
monochrome
silkscreens
