Yolanda López’s “Women’s Work Is Never Done” is a layered meditation on labor and power. At right, m

Yolanda López’s “Women’s Work Is Never Done” is a layered meditation on labor and power. At right, migrant women workers wear bandanas to protect against pesticides; at left, Chicana labor activist Dolores Huerta calls for solidarity during the 1965 grape workers’ strike and national boycott for healthcare and wage minimums. The title plays on the idiom describing a woman’s continual work, as they are typically the caretakers of home and family, often in addition to their occupational labor. López collectivizes the phrase, in solidarity with all women workers, pointing to their multiple roles at work, in the home, and as advocates for change. This fall, we’re taking a look at how artists in the Brooklyn Museum collection have promoted civic engagement through their work.Posted by Carmen HermoYolanda M. López (American, born 1942). Woman’s Work is Never Done, from 10 x 10 Portfolio, 1995. Screenprint, sheet: 21 15/16 × 22 1/16 in. (55.7 × 56 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Alfred T. White Fund, 1996.46.6. © artist or artist’s estate -- source link

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