New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Information Congo Square Poster The 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Congo Square poster features trumpeter Shamarr Allen, who played in several New Orleans brass bands before forming Shamarr Allen and the Underdawgs. The image is by Carl M. Crawford, a painter from Columbia, S.C., who has sold his […]

The art of freedom On January 1, 1863 Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, yet this news did not reach the free by law, yet still enslaved blacks in Texas until June 19, 1856. For over two years, slaves in the nation’s largest state did not know they were free. While the end of slavery […]

Art & Soul: Artist creates elaborate collages Carl M. Crawford carefully cuts an arc-shaped fragment out of a magazine with an X-Acto knife, gently rubs the emerald green shape on a glue stick and firmly presses the cut out form with his left thumb to complete the dancer’s left leg in his latest composition. This […]