BIO

Chisara Amanze is a Freshman in the Florida State University's College of Motion Picture Arts. She has an interest in cinematic exposure in areas of African and African diasporic sociology, activism, culture, and art. She hopes that this research project will give her inspiration, experience, and exposure to topics and characters that she would like to focus her future documentary and biographical films on.

The Black Artist’s Way

Abstract

The point of this research is to specifically display African American women that have enhanced their lives and the world around them through artistic expression. The women currently included in this project are Toni Morrison, Billie Holiday, and Dorothy Dandridge. Through our study of their pasts, we develop a cinematic project to help high school students view these women in a new light: one that properly emphasizes their greatness but also their humanity.

Keywords: Black Women in Fine Artis