Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa from Arcadia Publishing Artist_Amy Rice named The Pinkie

named The Pinkie

Japanese woodblock prints

use of local and domestic businesses for resources such as non-toxic glues and dyes

All prints are displayed with either brown chipboard or white backing board for support and come in protective acetate sleeves

and I recently became a full-time artist

Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa from Arcadia Publishing Artist_Amy Rice named The PinkieSome have called Buxton a Black Utopia. In the town of five thousand residents, established in 1900, African Americans and Caucasians lived, worked and attended school together. It was a thriving, one of a kind coal mining town created by the Consolidation Coal Company. This inclusive approach provided opportunity for its residents. Dr. E. A. Carter was the first African American to get a medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1907. He returned