Hilda Wilkinson Brown: Beyond the Classroom

HANDOUT - Born in 1927, Lilian Thomas Burwell was encouraged to become an artist by her aunt, Hilda Wilkinson Brown. Their lives in art are recounted in a new documentary, "Kindred Spirits." (Photo by Jaime Melnicove)

In the eyes of creatives, many of the objects we see in our daily lives can be illustrated in the form of a painting or 3d drawing. Once the connection is formed, the vision of what it can be comes next. For example,  seeing the residents of a neighborhood in Washington, D.C’s historic LeDroit Park influences artists like Hilda Wilkinson Brown as she shows her perspective of where she lives and allows the audience looking at the painting to see what she saw from her window.

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