Beverly Collins-Roberts
Art Biography 1979 – 2007
Objective: To create Art that stirs the mind and
comforts the soul.
To
document the life of African Americans of Camden, NJ - my hometown and the lives
of my sisters and brothers in the Motherland -
Fine-Art & Documentary Photographer • Curator • Cultural-Arts
Program Developer & Instructor, •
Entrepreneur • Film Maker-Writer, Director & Producer, •
Historian - The History of Slavery & Plantations in
Photographer
Documentary & Fine-Art Photographer for 28 Years. Specialize in photographing Children, The Elders, Stills & Documenting Black Urban Life. www.bevcr.com
Freelance Photographer
(Documentaries & PR)
1979- 1985 for Children’s and Women’s Organizations & other
Non- Profit Groups throughout the
Photography Exhibitions:
Walt Whitman Cultural-Arts Center 1980, 1981 (solo)
The Bank of
Private Showing (Mayor of
River Front Prison,
Camden, NJ (solo) 1983
The Painted
Photography
18th Seikyo Photo Exhibition,
The Claridge Hotel & Casino (Art Show), 1993
The UN 50th Anniversary (Art Show),
Raphaels ~ Art Show (Selected Artist) Phila,
Artist for Peace, SGI-USA ~
26th
Annual Juried Exhibition ~
Art for Peace-Sake ~
African American Experience ~
CCCH – Hopkins House Gallery, W. Collingswood, NJ - April 2002 (solo)
Art for the Sake of Peace ~
Camden County Historical Society, Camden , NJ
Art 4 the Sake of Peace, Walt Whitman
Cultural
CCCH – Hopkins House
Gallery, W. Collingswood,
NJ Feb 10 – March 26, 2005 (solo) …
“The History of
African Americans of
Exhibits - continued Beverly
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“Saturday Night Sunday Morning” (Group Show – Photography Exhibition)
April 10, - Sept. 2005
- The
“Saturday Night Sunday Morning” Traveling Tour - Deborah Willis, Curator October 2005
There is to be a Book of the Exhibition … 2007
The Show returned to the African American Museum
8/2007
“Silent Voices, Loud Echoes”
3/17/06 – 12/06
Made in
From Slavery
to Now- The History of African Americans of
Jan 12th-February 10th, 2007 ... During the run of Purlie
Curator:
Made in
“Still Standing” The History of African
Americans of
Aug - Oct 2005
Art 4 the Sake of Peace, Walt Whitman
Cultural
Art for the Sake of Peace,
Oct–Dec. 2002
Art for the Sake of Peace,
Children’s Photography Exhibition,
(
Cultural-Arts Program Developer & Instructor
In
1990 Founded “The
Saturday Matinee” a Cultural-Art-s Program for children, which has become a
model program. I teach Photography and Photo-Digital Art, Culinary Arts and children
Act & create video/films under the direction of “The Film Project”
Under the
parent company of Yesterday Today & Tomorrow, I’ve developed Cultural-Arts
Programs (like the Saturday Matinee) for Non-Profit Organizations placing our
program in their facilities, for their children, as well as having their
children transported to our site. Http://ytandt.homestead.com/ytandt2.html
Photography Workshops • Lectures • Residencies or Cultural-Arts Program Development
Magnolia
Elementary School, Magnolia, NJ … Hatch
Jr. High School, Camden, NJ Morgan
Village Middle School, Camden, NJ …
Camden Day Nursery, Camden, NJ
Girls High (with N.O.W. Organization) … River Front Prison, Camden, NJ,
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Entrepreneur
In
1993 Founded “Yesterday Today & Tomorrow”. In which my
Exhibit Photos are sold and Reproductions of selected Photo-Art Prints are made
into Note-cards, Stationery, etc.
Film Maker, Writer, Director &
Producer
In 1995 Wrote, Directed &
Produced a Silent Play for children,
entitled “Diversity”.
In 1999 Wrote,
Directed & Produced a Film for children, entitled “ It’s Just Life”.
In 2001 Wrote,
Directed & Produced a Film for children, entitled “ When, There, Then”.
In 2005 Wrote,
Directed & Produced “UNHUSHED!”
– Documentary on Pomona Hall
- The 18th Century Slave
Published In:
Banc Shares
Ledger, 1980
The
The Painted
Bride Annual Report, 1985
The Seikyo Shimbum, 1988
The
(Article & Photos of my Photographs)
The
(Article &
Photos of my Photographs)
Awards:
- Art
and Change Grant
June 2007 Leeway Foundation,
- Precious
Places – Oral Histoy Project II 2005-6
the “Unhushed”
Documentary Film.
- The documentary film, “UnHushed”
was selected to be in “The
March 10th, 2007
- The documentary film, “UnHushed”
was selected to be in the “
- 12th
Annual Women of Achievement - Annie Singleton Award
March 26, 2006
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity - Nu Iota
Chapter,
- Won Solo Show - 26th Annual Juried
Exhibition ~
- The
Claridge Casino & Hotel (Art Show),
- 18th
Seikyo Photo Exhibition,
- Photography
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Online
Articles and Interviews:
Interview~ Photographic Art & The Fate of Children
- By Hoag Levins
Article ~ IN MEMORY OF POMONA HALL'S SLAVES
Camden
Group Performs Ritual 'Purification' By Hoag Levins http://historiccamdencounty.com/ccnews104.shtml
Historical Art-Exhibition ~ “Still Standing” From Slavery - Now (
http://historiccamdencounty.com/ccnews105.shtml Http://stillstanding.homestead.com
Photo Essay ~”On Photography” Collected Visions
Museum
Community Global Involvement
Advocating Children’s Rights
Creator of “Shoot Photos –
Not Children” February 2001
An Online
Campaign and Project dedicated to protecting the rights of children
and the need for placing the arts in a
child’s life, instead of guns and violence.
Http://shootphotosnotchildren.homestead.com
The Still Standing Project
In 2002
Ms. Collins-Roberts learned that Pomona Hall had been a Slave
Plantation in the 1700’s. In 2003 she revealed this truth for the first time
ever to the city of
The “Shoot Out”
A Photography
Contest in which 10 young people won the opportunity to document their
neighborhoods from across the country and the
This event was Sponsored by - The African American Museum in
Beverly
Collins-Roberts was one of 3 Judges for this event. Also on May 2nd,
2006 was the Guest Speaker
for the Kick Off Event, honoring Award Winning Photographer -
Jack T. Franklin at AAMP.
Community Involvement
Continued … Beverly
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Made in Camden ,
NJ USA
A Walt Whitman Arts Project was further developed by Beverly
Collins-Roberts, to acknowledge, celebrate, support and to further the artistic
works of
1628 Kolo Street · Camden ,
NJ 08104-1624
E-mail: bev23@bevcr.com · Web
Site: WWW.bevcr.com