LESLEE STRADFORD
Opening Reception: May 27th, 6-8pm
Open from May 27th - May 31, 2021

“The Night Tulsa Died”: The Black Wall Street Massacre 1921” is a series of images which tells a story of an event in U.S. history that pitted white Americans against black Americans.  “The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921” was a massacre confined mainly to the racially segregated Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa Oklahoma, on May 31 to June 1, 1921.  Stradford is a descendant of victims in that riot.
She has taught at the American Language Center in Casablanca, Morocco, and lectured internationally. She was a residence artist at the Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy, and at the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, China.
As an artist, her practice included social, cultural and historical documentation. It straddles figuration and abstraction. Using new technology, photographic research and drawing, she creates digital images, painted canvases and printed silks.