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James Bettison Art

James Bettison lived from 1958–97. He was an early participant in the DiverseWorks artist-in-residence program in the early 1980s. Bettison was one of the original seven African-American artists who began Project Row Houses, a project that took a block of shotgun houses in the impoverished Third Ward community of Houston and turned them into a site for positive and creative change.

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Artist: James Bettison
Untitled, expressionistic woodcut print, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio
Untitled, expressionistic woodcut print, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio

Untitled, expressionistic woodcut print, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio

By James Bettison

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James Bettison Untitled, from the Art Against AIDS Portfolio, 1988 Woodcut on paper with deckled edges. Hand signed. Numbered 38/50. Dated. Printer's and Publisher's Blind Stamp. 20...

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