Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz

What a wonderful book and testimony about Peggy Cooper Cafritz life and contemporary art collection, I would highly recommend this book for novice and seasoned collectors. There are many contributors, such as Thelma Golden(Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem), Kerry James Marshall (artist), Hank Willis Thomas(artist) and Jack Shaiman (New York art dealer) just to name a few, This book is filled with illustration after illustration of Ms, Cafritz art collection before and after the 2009 fire. I know she would be proud of this book, just like I am.

Historically wonderful art collection! Overall, a very attractive publication! Rather oddly however and although frequently referred to throughout, there isn't one photo of Mike Malone in this book. Mike Malone was Peggy Cooper Cafritz comrade and fellow co-founder of Duke Ellington School of the Arts from the beginning. On page 26, Cafritz states that her sister Dominique danced with Ailey II. Research reveals that statement to be false. She never did. Although its possible that her sister attended some dance classes at the Ailey school.

This is the beautiful story of the life of dedication to achieving opportunity for and encouraging the creativity of young people lived by Peggy Cooper Cafritz. The prints of her artwork, including many destroyed in a house fire, document her taste and preserve for posterity those lost pieces. Peggy's life was one of principle, intelligence and truth. Her death just before the release of this work was a shock and leaves a void in the lives of the many who knew and admired her.

Stunning photographs of Peggy Cooper Cafritz' lost art treasures. Her recent passing makes her written memories even more poignant.I love this book.

Could not wait to receive this book and highly recommend it. It is all that I expected and then some. Very well illustrated.

I read about this book in the obituary of the collector of the extraorindary Peggy Cooper Cafritz. The African American artists represented in this gorgeous book will blow your mind. This is a must have for any art lover in your life.

She had an incredibly keen eye for art from emerging Diaspora artists. Those who wrote for this book did a highly effective job at putting the reader into her life as a collector and strong contributor in many ways.

Spellbinding.