“I am a black woman. I am an artist. For many years I have been creating work to bring issues of soc

“I am a black woman. I am an artist. For many years I have been creating work to bring issues of social justice into the public discourse. This book evolved from a project for which I folded origami cranes from pages of white suprematist books for the exhibition, “Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate” … I was trying to look at what it was like for me to turn hateful words into a beautiful art object. …. Transforming Hate sheds light on our individual roles, as voyeur and as participant. We make decisions about who gets to have rights and who is marginalized in our society…” —Clarissa SlighIn a unique work featured in a new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum artist Clarissa Sligh takes on the most difficult challenge of all—creating a thing of beauty out of artifacts of ugliness and hate.The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America opening July 26th at the Brooklyn Museum presents the research of the Equal Justice Initiative into the history of lynching in America accompanied by artworks, books and archival material from the Brooklyn Museum’s collections. The exhibition tells a difficult story—exploring the legacy of slavery, segregation, and mass incarceration in America as well as the racial differences that continue to haunt our country.Among the powerful works included in this exhibition, Sligh alone uses her art, not to expose, comment on respond or react to these urgent issues, but rather to literally and physically transform pieces of this painful history of terror and injustice into something entirely new.Posted by Deirdre Lawrence and Roberta Munoz -- source link

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