The Billie & Fulton Art Fair Present: Words To Consider

The Billie Holiday Theatre in collaboration with Fulton Art Fair present:

WORDS TO CONSIDER: EMMETT WIGGLESWORTH

About Emmett Wigglesworth:

Resident of Jamaica Queens for more than 20 years, Emmett Wigglesworth is a muralist, painter, sculptor, fabric designer and poet who has been creating for over six decades. He was born in Philadelphia, PA, where he attended the College of Art and later enlisted in the military service and was honorably discharged from the U. S. Marine Corp. in 1957. Wigglesworth has designed and illustrated several books and magazines for various publishing companies including Harper and Row, McGraw Hill, Macmillan Press, American Books, and Sesame Street magazine. He has written poetry which he combines with his printmaking. He produced a documentary on aging, while simultaneously designing the covers for two volumes of the Journal of Black Poetry. He has also taught art at the New Muse in Brooklyn, the J.O.I.N. Center, the Children’s Art Carnival, the Harlem Parents Association in Manhattan and for a number of special programs for the Board of Education, where he taught academics through art. In 1959 Wigglesworth began his participation in the Civil Rights movement and in the early 1960’s he worked with the CORE Freedom School in Selma, AL teaching art. During that same period he wrote and directed two plays for the CORE Freedom Theater in San Francisco, CA. In 1968 he designed the interior and exterior of the Bedford Stuyvesant Theater in Brooklyn. In addition, he has designed costumes and stage sets for the Black Spectrum Theater in Queens, NY. Wigglesworth has exhibited in Ghana, and throughout the U.S.