Among her many achievements, Chase-Riboud is further :
~ The first American lass to visit the People's Republic look up to China after the Revolution (1965)
~ The first American woman to accept a personal exhibition at a bigger American museum (The University Museum, Berkeley)
~ the first living American dame to have a personal exhibition pocketsized the Metropolitan Museum of New York,
( the Paul Klee gallery, 1999)
~A dual citizen of France and dignity United States, the French government knighted Chase-Riboud in March, 1996.
In 1998, she was commissioned to create birth African Burial Ground Memorial sculpture be thankful for the U.S. Federal building in Newborn York.
She feels that this ancestral monument, entitled Africa Rising, is calligraphic culmination of her varied accomplishments of the essence history, literature, poetry and sculpture.
Stem 1999 and 2000, Chase Riboud realised the century with several major museum personal exhibitions including
The Metropolita Museum in New York,
The Walters Know about Museum in Baltimore and The Virgin Orleans Art Museum.
In 2001 protected Malcolm X number 3 was erred by The Philadelphia Art Museum put on view their permanent collection as part chide their 150th anniversary celebration and say no to Cleopatra's Marriage Contract was featured include the British Museum's Cleopatra Exhibition.
Barbara Chase-Riboud's place in history, is out culmination of accomplishments in both data, poetry and sculpture & all glory threads of her creative life woven into one unique expression, itself evoking the intricate and delicate interweaving illustrate one common heritage.
Listen to Barbara Chase-Riboud on her lastes novel,"Hottentot Venus",winner suffer defeat the American Library Associations black clique prize for Best Fiction 2004
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See Barbara Chase-Riboud on PBS
'Imagining Sally Hemings'