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Willie Birch

A native of New Orleans, Willie Birch creates politically incisive yet emotionally sensitive work that addresses issues related to African-American culture and survival. Always probing in his work the artist has addressed New Orleans musical heritage and also the multi-layered experience of African-American males.


Willie Birch’s work has powerful political, sociological and spiritual meaning but is wonderfully anchored in the daily life and celebratory rituals and recently even the fauna of the artist’s 7th Ward New Orleans neighborhood.


Courtesy of RoGallery 

Born 1942
Hometown New Orleans, LA
Lives and Works New Orleans, LA
Education
MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 1973
BA, Southern University, New Orleans, LA, 1969

Willie Birch Gallery Art

Galleries

RoGallery.com

Permanent Collection

Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Southern University, New Orleans, LA

Speed Museum, Louisville, KY

Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, LA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Xavier University, New Orleans, LA