The talking with Hershell West West, Hershell interviewee. Ma, Eve A. interviewer, film director. Palomino Productions production company, film distributor. moving image videorecording Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Internet videos. Streaming video. cau 2017 monographic eng 1 online resource (1 video file (49 min.)) : sound, color. Hershell West - painter, muralist, art advocate, art teacher - was born and raised in Enterprise, Alabama. A black man in the segregated south, neither his family nor his society expected him to become an artist but he surmounted the odds, obtained first a BA and then a MFA from the University of South Florida. After working for a while in Florida, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he continues to live. West has executed commissions for murals in both Florida and California. In addition, his paintings have been exhibited in many venues. He has worked as chief, and often only, assistant to muralist John Wehrle. He has been board chair of the Richmond Art Center, of ProArts of Oakland, of MAW (Media Art Works) and has sat on, and chaired the Arts & Culture Commissions of both Alameda County and the City of Richmond in the San Francisco Bay Area. And he has taught - especially at-risk youth - both in a youth authority setting and through the Richmond Art Center. In a word, he exemplifies the positive contributions that many artists make to our society, creating works of beauty and at the same time, using art to help those around them. -- director, producer & host, Eve A. Ma. Originally released as a motion picture in 2019. Music, Lee Waterman, Marilyn McClain West In English. n-us--- West, Hershell Interviews African American painters Interviews African American mural painting and decoration https://login.zproxy.cun.edu.co/login?url=https://www.digitaliafilmlibrary.com/film/1324/ https://login.zproxy.cun.edu.co/login?url=https://www.digitaliafilmlibrary.com/cover?id=1324 https://login.zproxy.cun.edu.co/login?url=https://www.digitaliafilmlibrary.com/film/1324/ https://login.zproxy.cun.edu.co/login?url=https://www.digitaliafilmlibrary.com/cover?id=1324 DGITA 200930 DIGFLMLIB1194 eng