Program Description
Event Details
Green and Gold II is the latest installment of a series that began during the pandemic. These selections are arranged as a family tree, a linear evolution based on genes that are all at once African, American, and musical.
Art Reception: Sunday, March 15, 2:30–4 pm, Main Library Gallery
About the artist
Michael V. Stidham, who goes by BlackMikeStidham (one could google his name to understand why), is driven by nagging creative impulse. Grandson of John E. Herd—painter, illustrator, and one of the rare Black editorial artists for the Cleveland Plain Dealer in the 1960s—as well as a son to two musical parents, Michael entered the world with creative impulse in tow. Michael moved from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, to Chicago, Illinois, in 2010 to chase the mission that this creative impulse led him on. This mission and its trials saw him graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. Since then Michael has continued to follow his creative impulse through a series of challenges, lessons, and inspirations that ultimately led him here, to you, today.