Object number:
2010.54.6470
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
Maya Angelou Celebrates the Word
Maker:
Bob Baldock
Date made:
1995
Material / Technique:
Screen print on paper
Dimensions:
H: 17.625 in, W: 23 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
poster
Content description:
Poster has a wide unprinted white border and a narrow printed tan border. Background of poster is blue with the stylized image of Maya Angelou smiling at left. The top edge of the poster has text in tan: "Maya Angelou". Right side of poster has from top to bottom text in brown: "Celebrates The Word / in a performance with her son, / Oakland poet Guy Johnson, and poet Janice Mirikitani", a small many voices one heart logo in yellow, and more text in brown: "8 / September / 1995 / A Benefit for Project Open Hand / & The National Poetry Association (S.F.) / Calvin Simmons theater / Oakland".
Concepts:
poet; speaker; face; benefit
Places:
Oakland
Persons:
Maya Angelou
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