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Betty Blayton Taylor (born July 10, 1937), an American activist, advocate, artist, Arts administrator/educator, lecturer and social entrepreneur. As an artist, Betty Blayton is an illustrator, painter, printmaker, and sculptor. She is best known for her works often described as 'spiritual abstractions'. Betty Blayton-Taylor is co-founder and Board Secretary of the Studio Museum in Harlem, co-founder and Executive Director of Harlem Children's Art Carnival (CAC), and co-founder of Harlem Textile Works. She has been an advisor, consultant and board member to a variety of arts and community-based service organizations and programs. Her artworks are displayed in a variety of private art collections and museums. Since her retirement from CAC in 2004 she continues to talk, lecture and present on the arts and arts education and spends time creating and exhibiting new works. ==Family and early life== Taylor was born in Newport News, Virginia at Whittaker Hospital, the second of the four children of Alleyne Houser-Blayton and Dr. James Blaine "Jim" Blayton. Whittaker Hospital was the closest hospital for African Americans, thirty-five miles from the Blayton's home in James City County, where Dr. Blayton was the community's leading black physician. His personal and professional experiences in these times of segregation influenced him to establish the first 14-bed Emergency and Maternity facility for African Americans and later on in 1961 opening of the first fully integrated medical facility Williamsburg Community Hospital. Alleyne Houser-Blayton was also a founding member of the National Black Child Developmental Institute in Williamsburg and the Williamsburg chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. From as early as Blayton can remember she has declared herself an artist and demonstrated this fact at the age of 4 by repeatedly crayoning murals up the steps in her home to the point that her mother declared to her father that she was convinced that they must have brought the wrong baby home from the Hospital. Before she was school age her mother would often do substitute teaching for first grade. There was an art and play activity area next to the regular classroom. She would park Betty there with paint and easel and know that she did not have to worry about her for hours. Her three siblings are Barbara Blayton Richardson, who has a Ph.D. in Education; James the 2nd (Jimmy), who has won many awards for his work in metal sculpture and restoration of classic Corvettes; and Oscar, a lawyer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Betty Blayton Taylor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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