If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many
If you ask someone to name five artists, they will likely name prominent male artists, but how many people can list five women artists? Throughout March’s Women’s History Month, we will be joining institutions around the world once again to answer this very question posed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NWMA). We will be featuring artists from our upcoming exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 which examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. The show will be on view April 21-September 17, 2017. Together we hope to draw attention to the gender and race imbalance in the art world, inspire conversation and awareness, and hopefully add a few more women of color to everyone’s lists.In 1980, Lorrraine O’Grady performed Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline at Just Above Midtown Gallery in New York City, and these images are from her large photo project Miscegenated Family Album which grew out of her performance. Exploring issues of class, race, ethnography, and African American art, the work examines the troubled relationship between O’Grady and her deceased sister through juxtapositions of photographs of her sister Devonia, Nefertiti, and their families.Posted by Allie RickardLorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934). Miscegenated Family Album, 1994. Silver dye bleach photograph (Cibachrome), 32 prints each. Photography. -- source link
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