Interview with Dewey Crumpler
Author
Christopher Adam Williams
Decade
1960s 1970s
Tags
Video Printmaking Drawing
Racial Justice Community Politics
There are many things that happened throughout the course of history at SFAI.
But something important happened in 1977, with the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society.
I got a chance to sit down with Dewey Crumpler, esteemed professor and historian, and phenomenal mentor.
So we had a discussion, and there was a prints and drawings show in 1977.
So I asked Dewey, “What happened during this show?”
What I received was a lesson in the history of Black Excellence from my parents’ generation. Also, an unexpected story about SFAI’s first Black art student, Sargent Claude Johnson.
CAW
But something important happened in 1977, with the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society.
I got a chance to sit down with Dewey Crumpler, esteemed professor and historian, and phenomenal mentor.
So we had a discussion, and there was a prints and drawings show in 1977.
So I asked Dewey, “What happened during this show?”
What I received was a lesson in the history of Black Excellence from my parents’ generation. Also, an unexpected story about SFAI’s first Black art student, Sargent Claude Johnson.
CAW
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