Margaret Taylor-Burroughs
Deceased Person
1917 – 2010
Who was Margaret Taylor-Burroughs?
Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, also known as Margaret Taylor Goss, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs or Margaret T G Burroughs; was an African-American artist and writer and a co-founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History. She also helped to establish the South Side Community Art Center, whose opening on May 1, 1941 was dedicated by the First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt. There at the age of 23 Burroughs served as the youngest member of its board of directors. She was a prolific writer, with her efforts directed toward the exploration of the Black experience and to children, especially to their appreciation of their cultural identity and to their introduction and growing awareness of art.
She is also credited with the founding of Chicago's Lake Meadows Art Fair in the early 1950s. At its inception there were very limited venues and galleries for African American Artists to exhibit and sell their artwork, so she launched the Fair, which rapidly grew in popularity and became one of the most anticipated exhibitions for artists, collectors and others throughout the greater Chicago area.
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- Born
- Nov 11, 1917
St. Rose - Spouses
- Bernard Goss
(1939 - ) - Charles Burroughs
- Bernard Goss
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Englewood High School
- Chicago State University
- Englewood Technical Prep Academy
- Lived in
- Louisiana
- Died
- Nov 21, 2010
Chicago
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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