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name: Alston
vorname: Charles Henry
wikidata-repräsentation: Q1906150
gnd-repräsentation: 129631418
biografische angaben: * November 28, 1907, † April 27, 1977. Alston was the supervisor of the Harlem Hospital Center murals, leading a staff of 35 artists and assistants and becoming the first African American project supervisor of the Federal Art Project. Alston was also the first African American to teach at both the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Students League and, in 1969, to have been appointed the painter member of the Art Commission of the City of New York. He came from a leading African American family in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was related to Romare Bearden through his mother's second marriage. He attended Columbia University as an undergraduate and received an M.F.A. at Columbia University's Teachers College in 1931. After graduating he worked with Augusta Savage at the Harlem Arts Workshop, and when the program required more space he secured an additional facility at 306 West 141st Street. The space became a center for the Harlem art community and was known simply as "306."