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Charring Auh Jul 13, 2025

#RichardHunt, 1967

Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo credit: Lee Balterman

Charring Auh Jul 13, 2025

#RichardHunt, 1967

Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo credit: Lee Balterman

Rob Vincent (OLD ACCOUNT)Apr 24, 2024

#CurrentlyReading this excellent biography of #RichardHunt, someone not enough people know enough about.
https://jessicamaxstein.com/funny-boy/
#Bookstodon #Muppets

Book | Jessica Max Stein

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Mar 6, 2024

The #puppeteer who helped bring the #Muppets to life was also a #bereaved #queer #man searching for #love.

A friend of the late #Muppeteer #RichardHunt said he vowed to live life to the fullest after losing his #boyfriend.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #TV #RoleModels #Representation #Culture

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/03/the-puppeteer-who-helped-bring-the-muppets-to-life-was-also-a-bereaved-queer-man-searching-for-love/

The puppeteer who helped bring the Muppets to life was also a bereaved queer man searching for love - LGBTQ Nation

A friend of the late Muppeteer Richard Hunt said he vowed to live life to the fullest after losing his boyfriend.

LGBTQ Nation

Flipboard Art & Photo Desk Mar 1, 2024

Sculptor Richard Hunt, who died last December, had a career that spanned roughly 70 years, with his work appearing in museums and public spaces across the country, and was the first African American sculptor to have a retrospective at MOMA. Block Club Chicago's Rachel Hinton talked to artists who were inspired by his extraordinary life and work. "I would walk past his monument[s] every day — it’s kind of like the pinnacle of what I wanted to be,” sculptor Faheem Majeed says. “Richard is who I wanted to be at a certain point in my life before I even met him.”

h/t to @horrorboutique, who alerted us to Block Club Chicago's Black History series.

https://flip.it/UXC2Z_

#Art #Sculpture #RichardHunt #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

Remembering Richard Hunt, The Legendary Sculptor Who Inspired Artists In Chicago And Beyond

Those who knew Hunt, who died in December, said he was a humble artist who influenced the lives and work of younger generations of Chicago artists.

Block Club Chicago

Pax Ahimsa Gethen Dec 23, 2023

In today's story on @medium, I write about my volunteer work on the @wikipedia articles of three #Black artists who died in 2023: Actor #AndreBraugher, opera singer #GraceBumbry, and sculptor #RichardHunt.

Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:

https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/commemorating-black-brilliance-on-wikipedia-7abe4cd0191a?sk=b20d397fdea3d4f6f43eb6fbb8970d60

#BlackMastodon #Wikipedia #obituary #2023InReview