#noma

[thecollectibles]

Art by Noma

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #FrogFriday, here is a cool Mesoamerican Ballgame piece seen at New Orleans Museum of Art:

Stone Frog Yoke

Veracruz Culture, Gulf Coast Mexico, c. 600-900 CE

NOMA 2001. 338

[fablecreatesstuff]

Vivid skies may pass me by, but even still, I'll stay.

[istandonsnowpiles]

66 N

[buzzcutlip]

Very pure Copenhagen!Carmy

[annapolisrose]

Window without ladder - too late for help sculpture.

[capricoopla]

The blood demon on his skin ❤

[thesaurushouseofdesign]

JOHN SAUNDERS CHASE JR. FAIA (1925-2012)

When Mr Chase went to college in the 1940s, only 10% of the population had undergraduate degrees, and very few of those were people of color. 

Mr Chase enrolled in Hampton University and went on to become the first Black graduate from the University of Texas. In 1952, he was the first Black architect in Texas to get an architectural license. 

Because no firms would hire him, to fulfill a required apprenticeship, Chase appealed to the State of Texas to take his licensing exam without the required apprenticeship. He took it and passed.

Soon after, he designed a sleek Modernist building at 1191 Navasota Street in East Austin for the offices of the Colored Teachers State Association of Texas. About 70 years later the building was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin.

Mr Chase took work where he could find it, which in the beginning meant Black clientele. He designed Riverside National Bank in Texas, and he designed several buildings for Texas Southern University. As his career continued to grow, Chase opened offices in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and Washington DC.

Throughout his life Chase was an advocate for the arts, encouraging other people of color to become architects, and in 1971 he became one of the 12 co-founders of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), architects who met at the 1971 Detroit AIA Conference.

Mr Chase was the first Black member of the Texas Society of Architects and the Houston AIA.  In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed him as the first Black member of the US Commission of Fine Arts.

1959 - The John and Drucie Chase House, 3512 Oakdale Street, Houston TX. He added a second story around 1968.