The Renaissance, A Global Phenomenon (Online)
OSHR 2029Hugh Leeman is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator, teaching art history and technique in English and Spanish. Leeman's artwork and projects focus on community collaboration and social interaction.
While living in the Caribbean at a young age, Leeman imagined himself remaining there for the rest of his life. Yet, as a teenager, he began to meet visiting cruise ship passengers from the Americas and Europe. Their stories would change the course of his life, inspiring a multi-year journey. He traded his paintings for rent while working his way around the world. He learned to draw from books he couldn't read while teaching English in China. Leeman moved to the United States from the Middle East, where he had picked up trash in the desert. He has developed his social practice for over a decade, living on San Francisco's "skid row".
Leeman first collaborated on a self-empowerment project with the homeless in San Francisco. More recently, he teamed up with Aetatribes.org to bring clean water projects to the indigenous Aeta Tribes of the Philippines. Now he is creating impasto paintings and sculptures. They address personal and societal transformation.
Leeman has exhibited his artworks at the de Young Museum, the Museum of Mexico City, the Masur Museum of Art, and the Arlington Contemporary Art Center. He was awarded an Artistic Mastermind Grant and created a twenty-foot-tall mural of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. adjacent to King's birth house in Atlanta, Georgia. His artwork and projects are published in The Outlaw Bible of American Art.
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Recommendations
Optional Readings:
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
The Medici (Italian Histories) by Paul Strathern
The Secret Language of the Renaissance: Decoding the Hidden Symbolism of Italian Art by Richard Stemp
Testimonials
"Hugh Leeman is an American Artist, whose artwork gives voice to the overlooked and oft forgotten."