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Indepth Arts News: "Synthia Saint James Receives Woman of the Year 2008 Award" 2008-03-10 until 2008-12-31 California State Capital Building Sacramento, CA, USA United States of America
Her architectural designs include a 150 foot ceramic tile mural for Ontario, California's international airport, 6 - 9x4 foot elevator doors for
a building in California's State Capitol's East End
Complex, Sacramento, California,
stained glass windows for the West Tampa Library in Tampa, Florida, and a
4x7 foot ceramic tile mural (inspired by Dr. Maya Angelou's
poem 'On the
Pulse of Morning', commissioned by Gibson, Dunn, Crutcher LLP
for Cowan
Elementary School in Westchester, California. She was also commissioned to
create
the 3x6 foot painting that hangs in the Women's Center of Glendale
Memorial
Hospital in Glendale, California.
SAINT JAMES has completed numerous commissioned signature images for
non-profit organizations including the International Association of Black
Professional Fire Fighters (which hangs at the Vulcan Station in Brooklyn, New
York), Children's Institute International, the Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles,
the Harlem Book Fair, the United Way, and the National Education
Association. She unveiled the poster that she created for the Center for
Disease
Control at the United Nations on World AIDS Day 2005, unveiled the original
painting that she created for the Metropolitan AME Church (Harlem, NY) at
the
Schomburg in February 2006, and unveiled the 20th anniversary painting for
the 100
Black Men of America, Inc. in June 2006..
Her paintings grace the covers of over 60 books, including Terry McMillan's
Waiting to Exhale, Disappearing Acts, Mama, and the Japanese translation of
How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and Iyanla Vanzant's Acts of
Faith, Faith in
the Valley and The Big Book of Faith.
In reviews her artwork has been described as "ebullient",
"bold", "creates
paintings that remind one of Matisse cutouts in their clear line and intense
color" and "joyful".
She was honored with the 2004 Woman of the Year Award in Education by
the
Los Angeles County Commission for Women and she is a proud receipient of
The
HistoryMakers Award. Fall of 2006 she received both the MOSTE
Inspirational
Women Award and the Samella Award for her artistry, and designed the "We
See
You Award". SAINT JAMES is also one of the women included in Dr. Cynthia
Jacobs Carter's National Geographic book, Africana Woman: Her
Story Through Time.
She most recently completed signature paintings for the 10th anniversary of
the African American Business Summit and the inaugurable painting for the
Leimert Park Village Book Festival. On June 21, 2007 she was honored by
the
Home Depot Charitable Foundation with a tribute held at the Staples Center
in
Los Angeles.
She travels nationally for speaking engagements, exhibitions and unveilings.
SAINT JAMES, a self-taught artist, credits the creator and her ancestry
(which includes African American, Native American, Haitian and German Jew)
for
her artistic gifts.
Woman of the Year:
The Woman of the Year event was started in 1987 by Assemblywoman Bev
Hansen
(R) and Assemblywoman Sally Tanner (D), who noticed that the California
Legislature had no events planned for the month of March, Women's History
Month.
In celebration of the contributions to society made by remarkable women
throughout California, Hansen and Tanner arranged to invite one woman from
each
Senate and Assembly district to come to the Capitol and be honored for their
accomplishments. The women were to be recognized as Woman of the Year
in a
formal ceremony on the floors of the Senate and Assembly. This yearly event,
sponsored and organized by the Women's Caucus, is greatly anticipated by all
Legislators today.
View more of Synthia Saint James' work in her Premiere Portfolio at absolutearts.com http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/k/kikus
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California Senator Mark Ridley Thomas has chosen to honor Synthia SAINT
JAMES with the 2008 "Woman of the Year" Award from his 26th Senatorial
District. The awards ceremony will take place on Monday, March 10, 2008 at the State Capitol Building in Sacramento, CA. Synthia SAINT JAMES, international award winning artist and designer of the
first United States Postal Stamp for the Kwanzaa holiday, has to date written
and or illustrated 13 children's picture books, 3 poetry and prose
books, 4 children's activity books, a cookbook, and a postcard book. She
has garnered numerous awards including a Parent's Choice Silver Honor for
her book Sunday, a Coretta Scott King Honor Award for illustrating Neeny Coming, Neeny Going, and an Oppenheim Gold Award for the book To Dinner For Dinner, which she illustrated. Synthia SAINT JAMES has been a Premiere Portfolio Member at absolutearts.com since 2001.
