Dr. Samella Sanders Lewis, 86, widely collected and exhibited as an artist (primarily a printmaker) and also revered as an art historian and writer on African Art, stops by the South Side Community Art Center, 3831 S. Michigan, on Friday, 6 p.m. -9 p.m., with historian Dr. Richard Long to discuss and sign copies of her book. Barthe: Life in Art, which took 20 years of extensive research to produce. The literary work traces Richmond Barthe's life and brilliant career-path as an artist and sculptor from the rural South to Chicago, to energizing New York and finally to Jamaica and Pasadena, Calif. SSCAC is currently exhibiting Dr. Lewis' works through Aug. 29. Both the exhibit and book …
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