You are connecting from Lake Geneva Public Library, please login or register to take advantage of your institution's Ground News Plan.
Published 3 hours ago • loading... • Updated 3 hours ago
Amy Sherald talks to Dr. Leslie King-Hammond about ambition, bending the rules and how that Michelle Obama portrait got made
The film traces King-Hammond’s lifelong curiosity and her influence on artists including Amy Sherald, with co-directors saying 82-year-old’s work shaped careers.
Juliana Ukiomogbe Long before Dr. Leslie King-Hammond became a leading scholar and mentor in the art world, she was a young girl watching a glass blower make her a replacement eye. Born in the South Bronx in 1944, she had developed a tumor that required one eye to be removed. In a new documentary about