African American Artist Bisa Butler Delicately Interweaves The African and American Story With Her Unique Quilt Designs

African American Artist Bisa Butler Delicately Interweaves The African and American Story With Her Unique Quilt Designs

To experience a Bisa Butler exhibition is to encounter the collective memory of a community interwoven with vibrantly hued threads. It is a reminder that the stories we choose to narrate, and the voices we amplify, shape our understanding of history. As we continue to reassess and reinterpret these moments in time Butler’s work provides an invaluable perspective, and a testament to the African American journey and contribution to the American tapestry.

Flo Oy Wong—Artist/Poet/Educator

Flo Oy Wong—Artist/Poet/Educator

In 1989, Flo had co-founded the San Francisco-based Asian American Women Artist Association (AAWAA) after attending the February conference of WCA in San Francisco. At the end of the conference, she was invited by Moira Roth, Trefethen Professor of Art History at Mills College, to a meeting of prominent women artists-of-color who had attended the conference, including Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith and Gail Tremblay among others.

Tuesdays Retrospective of MAYDAY !EAARTH: 13 Artists Declare A Climate Emergency at Ceres Gallery

Tuesdays Retrospective of MAYDAY !EAARTH: 13 Artists Declare A Climate Emergency at Ceres Gallery

Human production and consumption have rapidly degraded the ecosystems of our major communities over the past several decades; Earth at present is in a state of chaos. Moreover, humankind’s attempt at reversing existing ecological damages does not keep up with the prevailing and accelerated rates of destruction impacting the globe exponentially. We have thus been made painfully aware of immanent climate change despite hereunto efforts at intervention. MAYDAY !EAARTH is a global distress call to signal that time is running out.

Evolutionary Expressions: A Brief Compendium of Women’s Written Contributions to Art History

Evolutionary Expressions: A Brief Compendium of Women’s Written Contributions to Art History

Essentially, Nochlin posed a question that planted a seed of reflection within the reader. You might hear the question and immediately become defensive, dismiss it as a feminist complaint, or you may begin a line of questioning that leads you to an obvious answer. However you choose to investigate the argument the truth remains: Women are underrepresented in the mainstream art world. Instead of simply bringing awareness to the issue (which is also significant) or throwing money at the problem, we should endeavor to understand why this is.

Feminist speculative fiction: inventing foremothers

Feminist speculative fiction: inventing foremothers

Convening the Women’s Caucus for Art Panel, Patti Jordan asked: “What are optimal means to transcend histories and advance intersectional feminist art and social justice issues in our given climate?” In response, I explored how visual art strategies associated with feminist speculative fiction in art serve as creative catalysts for social and political change. Encompassing science fiction, fantasy, and Afrofuturism, speculative fiction (SF) is a literary genre of conjecture, in which authors imagine alternative realities in order to question current norms.

The Brown Dot Project

The Brown Dot Project

By LINDA VALLEJO "The Brown Dot Project" keynote presented for the panel Transhistorical Feminist Agency: A Matter of Gender, Race, Time, and Place as a part of the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference 2021 Data pictographs that illustrate the advancement...

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