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PART 2 (Final)

HUGEAUX - SKETCHBOOK 2008 ( The Text)
The 2nd Annual The African & American works by African-American & African Artists born 1930 to 1961
exhibition April 1 - June 30, 2008 .

Dr. MOHAMED BUWE OSMAN
Text by Abdi-Noor Haji Mohamed (Somalia / Sweden)

Welcome to the Online Art Exibitions> Dr. Mohamed Buwe Osman is a living talent and a legend. He is a medical doctor, a painter and a poet whose work touches the inner feelings of the soul. Dr. Osman´s skills as a painter have to a large extent contributed to the understanding the establishing a link between arts and medicine which is a rare possibility to have a medical doctor with such great artistic potentiality. He writes and paints about many geners including the evolutionary stages a man undergoes from conception to birth and death. I have visited his website and found his work very impressive and glaringly outstanding which do not only pass a message across but has a healing power from which humans can benefit from. I dedicate this poem to Dr. Osman for his excellent creative work in the field of Arts and Medicine.

You are a doctor
You supply love
You relieve pain
You inject hope

You are an artist
You soothe the soul
You touch the heart
Your hands are gifted

You write poetry
You share feelings
You pass messages
Your mind is smart
We all love you Doctor
We are proud of you
Keep up the good work
Keep the flame glowing


HUGEAUX
Text by Honorable Dr. Margaret Burroughs (Emeritus Director DuSable Museum)
Excerpts from poem: "BLACK / B L A C K" .

Think BLACK / Love BLACK / Believe in BLACK/
Unite with BLACK Brothers
LOVE BLACK.

Love your BLACK Self / Trust BLACK / Follow BLACK
Register BLACK/ Elect BLACK
LOVE BLACK

Organize BLACK / Build for BLACK / Clean up BLACK
Pray BLACK / Worship Black
LOVE BLACK

BLACK Hands / Rejoice BLACK / Laugh BLACK
Be a proud BLACK Person
& Love you BLACK Self


EPILOGUE by Vanessa D. Thaxton-Ward

I have worked in museums for over twenty-five years and worked at the Hampton University Museum for seventeen years. Living with the works of Albert Smith, Hale Woodruff, Palmer Hayden, Joshua Johnson, Henry O. Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Augusta Savage, Charles White, the murals of John T. Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett’s prints and sculptures, Samella Lewis, James Phillips and the list goes on and on has been an amazing journey that continues. I have walked by the works on display many times and even talked to some of them. I have talked to groups about them when giving tours and planned programs around them and yet each time I see them it is still a wonderful and new experience almost like looking at them for the first time. When researching the artists for a new label or working in art storage to pull a piece that another institution may want to borrow it is like making new friends or visiting your favorite Aunt.

African American art is so diverse and energizing as seen during the opening of New Power Generation 2008: A National Juried Exhibition that opened in February where we showcased the work of emerging and working artists. Hampton as well as other repositories and private collectors of art created by artists of African descent are important to the voice of the artist.

Vanessa D. Thaxton-Ward
Curator of Collections
Hampton University Museum

Copyright Otto Neals All Rights Reserved. Permission Granted.
Copyright Dr. Mohamed Buwe Osman All Rights Reserved. Permission Granted.
Copyright Barry Mason All Rights Reserved. Permission Granted.
Copyright Dr. Margaret Burroughs All Rights Reserved. Permission Granted.
Copyright Vanessa Thaxton-Ward All Rights Reserved. Permission Granted.
Copyright Janaka Bowman Lewis All Rights Reserved. Permission Granted.
Copyright Abdi-Noor Haji Mohamed All Rights Reserved. Permission Granted

HUGEAUX collaboration with Otto Neals, Dr. Mohamed Buwe Osman, Barry Mason, Dr. Margaret Burroughs, Vanessa Thaxton-Ward, Janaka Bowman Lewis and Abdi-Noor Haji Mohamed.
An African American Indian contribution to the Fine Arts through the Humanities

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