Alice Patrick
{{Short description|American painter and sculptor}}
{{Infobox artist|name = Alice Patrick|birth_date = 1948|known_for = Murals|birth_place = Los Angeles|alma_mater = Art Center College of Design, Otis Art Institute}}Alice Patrick (born 1948) is an American muralist and sculptor. Her murals are recognized by the City of Los Angeles as the first painted within the city by an African-American woman.{{Cite web |last=Garay |first=Olga |date=7 December 2010 |title=City of Los Angeles Inter-Departmental Correspondence |url=http://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2010/10-1590_RPT_CAD_12-07-10.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608163721/http://clkrep.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2010/10-1590_RPT_CAD_12-07-10.pdf |archive-date=8 June 2023 |access-date=30 July 2015 |website=City of Los Angeles}}
Biography
Patrick was born and raised in Los Angeles where she studied first at the Art Center College of Design and later at the Otis Art Institute.{{Cite book |last=Prigoff |first=James |title=Walls of Heritage Walls of Pride: African American Murals |last2=Dunitz |first2=Robin J. |publisher=Pomegranate Communications |year=2000 |isbn=0764913395 |location=San Francisco, California |pages=180, 257 |language=en |oclc=43631621}} She is also a former elementary school art teacher.{{Cite news |last=Carr |first=Elston L. |date=9 September 1990 |title=A Niche for Beauty : Art: A Westside businessman has opened new avenues to make affordable works by black artists available around the country. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-09-we-457-story.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608185100/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-09-we-457-story.html |archive-date=8 June 2023 |access-date=30 July 2015 |work=Los Angeles Times}}
Work
Patrick was part of the Citywide Mural Project in Los Angeles. She painted in South Los Angeles,{{Cite news |last=Fuentes |first=Ed |date=21 February 2012 |title=Mural Ordinance Public Meeting Period Does Not End Quietly |url=https://www.pbssocal.org/history-society/mural-ordinance-public-meeting-period-does-not-end-quietly |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925002447/https://www.pbssocal.org/history-society/mural-ordinance-public-meeting-period-does-not-end-quietly |archive-date=25 September 2024 |access-date=30 July 2015 |work=KCET - National Public Radio}} however, her mural of historic women in Black History, completed in the mid-1970s, was destroyed soon after its completion. One of her later murals, "Women Do Get Weary (but They Don't Give Up" (1991) was sponsored by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC).{{Cite news |last=Morrison |first=Patt |date=28 August 2010 |title=Judy Baca: Muralista |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/28/opinion/la-oe-morrison-baca-20100828/2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015015004/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/28/opinion/la-oe-morrison-baca-20100828/2 |archive-date=15 October 2013 |access-date=30 July 2015 |work=Los Angeles Times}} The mural shows images of Mary McCleod Bethune, Dorothy Height, Oprah Winfrey, Josephine Baker and others.{{Cite news |last=Kapitanoff |first=Nancy |date=14 March 1993 |title=Street Gallery Works : A slide presentation and a tour will both emphasize women muralists and the many images they've made on the walls of Los Angeles. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-14-ca-850-story.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204031246/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-03-14-ca-850-story.html |archive-date=4 February 2023 |access-date=30 July 2015 |work=Los Angeles Times}} Patrick painted herself into the mural as well. The mural is approximately nine feet by sixteen feet and is painted in acrylic on stucco. In 2013, the mural underwent restoration by SPARC in order to fix the peeling paint and faded colors.{{Cite web |date=13 July 2013 |title=Alice Patrick Mural Fully Restored! |url=http://sparcinla.org/alice-patrick-mural-fully-restored/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606183232/http://sparcinla.org/alice-patrick-mural-fully-restored/ |archive-date=6 June 2023 |access-date=30 July 2015 |website=Social and Public Art Resource Center}}
In the 1990s Patrick was selling limited edition prints of activists involved in the civil rights movement.{{Cite news |last=Nash |first=Collin |date=28 November 1991 |title=Of Pride and Profit : Business: Spawned by a new wave of ethnic consciousness, mom-and-pop outlets for Afrocentric products are proliferating. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-28-we-425-story.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608234036/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-28-we-425-story.html |archive-date=8 June 2023 |access-date=30 July 2015 |work=Los Angeles Times}} Cooper's Originals, a gallery in Los Angeles, helped promote her work, marketing her reproductions.{{Cite news |last=Moffat |first=Susan |date=28 December 1992 |title=Art Gallery Offers Blacks a Nostalgic Brush With the Past |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-28-me-2121-story.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609112557/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-28-me-2121-story.html |archive-date=9 June 2023 |access-date=30 July 2015 |work=Los Angeles Times}} Later, she opened her own gallery called Aliceland, which she ran for ten years.{{Cite web |title=Alice Patrick |url=https://www.themcla.org/artist/alice-patrick |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925004332/https://www.themcla.org/artist/alice-patrick |archive-date=25 September 2024 |access-date=30 July 2015 |website=Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIgwx6tbp6Q Saving Alice Patrick's 'Women Do Get Weary, but They Never Give Up.'] (Video)
- [https://vimeo.com/84237750 Dramatization of "Women Do Get Weary (but They Don't Give Up)] - Video
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Category:African-American sculptors
Category:American women sculptors
Category:African-American women artists
Category:Artists from Los Angeles
Category:Otis College of Art and Design alumni
Category:Date of birth missing (living people)
Category:Sculptors from California
Category:American women muralists
Category:African-American painters
Category:21st-century African-American artists
Category:21st-century African-American women
Category:20th-century African-American artists