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.Carrie Mae Weems is part of a younger generation of black female artists, along with Lorna Simpson, who are carrying forward the influences, and complicating the narratives, of the Black Arts Movement and second-wave feminism into twenty-first-century practices. This image is from The Kitchen Table Series, a photo-text work exploring gender, race, domesticity, and the family in which Weems constructs a rich narrative of one woman’s life within the framework of the kitchen. Posted by Allie RickardCarrie Mae Weems (American, born 1953). Untitled (Man Smoking/Malcolm X), from the Kitchen Table series, 1990. Gelatin silver photograph. Brooklyn Museum © artist or artist’s estate  -- source link

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