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Pops Staples Poster
by Kelly Latimore
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Pops Staples poster by Kelly Latimore. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Roebuck Pops Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000) was an American gospel and R&B musician. A pivotal figure in gospel in the 1960s... more
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Roebuck "Pops" Staples (December 28, 1914 – December 19, 2000) was an American gospel and R&B musician. A "pivotal figure in gospel in the 1960s and 1970s,"he was an amazing songwriter, guitarist and singer. His voice resonates with a gentle soul. He was the patriarch and member of singing group The Staple Singers, which included his son Pervis and daughters Mavis, Yvonne, and Cleotha. With encouragement from Martin Luther King Jr. the staple singers wrote some of the most beautiful civil rights anthems the 1960s. His daughter Mavis summed up her father's words of encouragement as an Artist to her quite well saying,"simply sing and do it with all your heart and you'll be all right"
About Kelly Latimore
I started painting icons in 2011 while I was a member of the Common Friars from 2009-2013. Our collective work was about being more connected: to ourselves, each other, our surrounding community and the land. This manifested itself as a place called “The Good Earth Farm” where we held weekly services and meals, and grew produce for our community and local food pantries. My friend, and fellow farmer, Paul often posed the question, “how do we become people who, in Jesus’s words, ‘consider the lilies of the field’? This became the focus of my first attempt at an icon entitled: “Christ: Consider the Lilies.” Iconography has since become a practice of more considerations: of color and light, of brush stroke and form,...
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