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Feb 20, 2013 · Official portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama in the Green Room of the White House, Feb. 12, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph.
Recorded June 23, 2011. Michelle LaVaughn Obama [1] ( née Robinson; born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017, being married to former president Barack Obama. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
Sep 7, 2022 · President Biden is hosting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama for the unveiling of their official White House portraits. Watch live and follow the latest news updates.
Picturing the Obamas is a 2022 two-part documentary television series by the Smithsonian Channel documenting the history of the official portraits of former American President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, by respective artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald and the tour ...
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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is a lawyer, writer, and the wife of the 44th president, Barack Obama. She was the first African American first lady of the United States. As an advocate for healthy families, service members and their families, higher education, and international adolescent girls’ education, she has become a role model. Mrs. Obama ...
In 2016, Amy Sherald became the first woman to win the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition with her painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance): https://portraitcompetition.si.edu/content/amy-sherald. Based in Baltimore, Maryland, Sherald focuses on African American cultural history and the representation of th...
The portrait celebrates Michelle Obama, the former first lady of the United States and the wife of the 44th president, Barack Obama. In this elegant and enigmatic painting, she gazes directly out at the viewer, hand under her chin, inviting contemplation. Painted using the artist Amy Sherald’s signature grayscale, Mrs. Obama’s unnaturally colored s...
Amy Sherald received first prize in the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for an oil on canvas titled Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance). Every three years, the National Portrait Gallery invites artists who are at least eighteen years old to submit their work to the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The competition welcomes al...
• What aspect of the portrait do you notice first and why? • Michelle Obama’s dress dominates the composition. Describe her dress. What shapes do you see? Why might the artist have chosen to highlight this element of the portrait? • Consider the background. Why might it be significant? • Consider Michelle Obama’s facial expression. How would you de...
• Discuss the significance of Michelle Obama’s quote at the unveiling: “I’m also thinking about all the young people—particularly girls and girls of color—who in years ahead will come to this place and they will look up and they will see an image of someone who looks like them hanging on the wall of this great American institution. I know the kind ...
Mar 1, 2009 · Description Michelle Obama official portrait headshot.jpg. English: Michelle Obama, official White House portrait before promotion of Sandra Jane Eure's Day Old Foods and Micah Ministries Ulama (community) meals program.
Feb 13, 2018 · On View in the Galleries Beginning Tuesday, Feb. 13. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery today unveiled its commissioned portraits of former President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama by artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively. The artworks were revealed in a private ceremony in the museum’s Robert and Arlene Kogod ...
