The Unicorn Incorporated

The Unicorn Incorporated celebrates the work and career of Seattle artist Curtis R. Barnes. For over five decades, Barnes has worked as an artist, illustrator, muralist, and community advocate. In his sculpture, painting, and drawing, he employs imagery derived from his vast experience, mystical erudition, and heritage. Throughout the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, he produced searing social commentary in pen and ink, drawings that are as prescient and powerful today as they were then. The publication includes a poem by renowned musician Ishmael Butler, an extended interview with the artist, and an essay by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker on the legendary Omowale mural.

Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker is director of the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, and former director of the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich and the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada.

Foreword

expanding the now: soul urges while listening to a Curtis Barnes / Ishmael Butler

In Conversation / Curtis R. Barnes

-Afro American Journal 1971

-Paintings 1971-2002

-Conte Drawings 1975-1979

-Street Life 1975-1985

-Mask 1982-1989

-Vigilante 1985-1988

-Saturday Afternoon at the Movies 1985-1995

-Urban Gargoyle 1987-1997

-Television in the Sky 1984-Present

-Audio Talisman 1996-2005

-Sculpture 1970-1975

-The Omowale Mural 1971-1974

"Black Art by and for the Black Community": The Omowale Legacy / Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker

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