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Terralynn Joy ❧

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Lorna Simpson (b. 1960) is an American artist who works in a wide range of media, including photography, installation, sculpture, video, film, and drawing. She gained notoreity in the mid-1980s with works that confronted and challenged conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history, and memory. Simpson was the first African-American woman to exhibit at the Venice Biennale in 1990.

Simpson’s ongoing questioning of memory and representation through her work not only speaks for black female figures, but for all those who have been oppressed, marginalized, and silenced. Even after more than three decades, her shrewd observations and critiques about our culture resonate deeply at this moment.

Image 1: “Easy for Who to Say” 1989

Image 2: “Untitled (A lie is not a shelter)” 1989

Image 3: “Untitled (A lie is not a shelter)” For Art Against AIDS in San Francisco

You can download the teaching material from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website.

Lorna Simpson Author / Creator: Jones, Kellie London ; New York : Phaidon, c2002. English HOLLIS number: 990091560860203941

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🎨 #ArtIsAWeapon

Spotlight on and congratulations to multimedia artist / 2024 MacArthur Fellow Ebony G. Patterson!

Video and caption reposted from @macfound Meet Ebony G. Patterson, a multimedia artist and 2024 #MacFellow creating visually dazzling and densely layered works that explore themes of visibility, beauty, race, class, and mourning.

Ebony centers the culture and aesthetics of postcolonial spaces, and shines a light on difficult social histories while highlighting the possibilities for regeneration and beauty.

Learn more about Ebony at the link in bio!

#EbonyPatterson #BlackArtists #BlackWomenArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks

[tessiearts]

I did these character designs a few years back for a story that has always been in the back of my mind. It is one of those stories I always imagine being told best as an animated series rather than a comic. I’m making some current artwork of them now and I just realize I never posted this. These aren’t the final designs for them.

Those who want more background information on these characters, please continue reading below.

It’s set in a fictional world where humans must work a dedicate balance in a world full of magic, spirits, and various fanatical creatures whose intelligence rivals that of humanity. Only a selected few of humanity has the power to manipulate magic and of those who can, even fewer can become the nation’s witchdoctor. The witchdoctor is one of the most important people of any kingdom, tasked with keeping vengeful nature’s spirits at bay, diagnosing and fixing curses, and confronting any evil witches, sorcerers, or magical beasts who wish to bring harm to their kingdom’s people. Due to their importance in society at large and the need to exchange ideas and offer assistance to other witchdoctors, they can travel freely between kingdoms without prosecution and are given significant privileges and accommodations wherever they settle.

The training to become a witchdoctor starts in childhood. Once chosen, the child leaves their home for Arithea, a witchdoctor trainee camp that will serve as their primary home. They are partnered with another trainee and a teacher whose task it is to build up their magical ability, learn to speak to spirits, and teach them the various ways of the witchdoctor. During this time, the witchdoctor trainee is taken to various kingdoms and expose to different peoples, cultures, creatures, and other witchdoctors.

This is where we meet our characters, who are all in the same trainee group.

Kadai isn’t your typical witchdoctor trainee. There isn’t a lot of things she cares about in this world, other than what “me, myself, and I want’ as she like to say. Use to taking care of herself, her independent streak puts her at odds with the other trainees and particularly so with her trainee partner Rashin, who is all about rules. Unlike Rashin, the only reason Kadai a trainee is for the free food.

Rashin is probably one of the most ambitious witchdoctor trainee that Arithea ever had. He was a stand out in his village, and no one was particularly surprised when he was chosen to be the village’s witchdoctor. Rashin wants to prove himself to world, being very aware that as a Chiwara, that he is viewed as another simple beast in the majority human dominated environment that he is surrounded by. His ambitions are almost always at odds with the laid back Kadai.

Maadi is a very controversial witchdoctor teacher indeed. To the other teachers, he is way too laid back for the students own good and treat them too much like kids rather than a witchdoctor they must become. But Maadi is very confident in his methods and believe no other teacher can bring out the full potential of their students like he can. Even if they fall a little behind the other students with his sometimes lackadaisical approach, they will definitely catch up in time with his teaching methods…right?!

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La Baker. #loismailoujones #blackartists #blackwomenartists #blackgirlmagic✨ https://www.instagram.com/p/Co926o2OmTFgWYex7LGJw1Zz_xzTiQiBesAhJs0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Whispers Of Bloom, 2023

Acrylic on Canvas and Wood Frame

24x36 in

Josephine Destiny

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Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger performing with R.S.V.P. at Pearl C. Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, May 1977. Photograph by Harmon Outlaw. Courtesy Senga Nengudi, Thomas Erben Gallery, Lévy Gorvy, and Sprüth Magers.

Senga Nengudi (née Sue Irons; born September 18, 1943) is an African-American visual artist and curator. She is best known for her abstract sculptures that combine found objects and choreographed performance. She is part of a group of African-American avant-garde artists working in New York City and Los Angeles, from the 1960s and onward. Via W

Maren Hassinger (born Maren Louise Jenkins in 1947) is an African-American artist and educator whose career spans four decades.

Hassinger uses sculpture, film, dance, performance art, and public art to explore the relationship between the natural world and industrial materials. She incorporates everyday materials in her art, like wire rope, plastic bags, branches, dirt, newspaper, garbage, leaves, and cardboard boxes. Hassinger has stated that her work “focuses on elements, or even problems—social and environmental—that we all share, and in which we all have a stake…. I want it to be a humane and humanistic statement about our future together.” Via Wikipedia

2. Nengudi and Hassinger resting before their performance at Pearl C. Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, May 1977. Photograph by Harmon Outlaw. Courtesy Senga Nengudi, Thomas Erben Gallery, Lévy Gorvy, and Sprüth Magers.

3. Contact sheet picturing Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger performing with R.S.V.P. at Pearl C. Woods Gallery, Los Angeles, May 1977. Photographs by Harmon Outlaw. Courtesy Senga Nengudi, Thomas Erben Gallery, Lévy Gorvy, and Sprüth Magers.

Source and more: https://walkerart.org/collections/publications/side-by-side/individual-collective-a-conversation-with-senga-nengudi/

#SengaNengudi #MarenHassinger #blackartist #blackwomenartists #artherstory #artbywomen #womensart #palianshow #art #womenartists #femaleartist #artist #AfricanAmerican #visualartist #artcurator #blackherstory

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Caption: Friend of The Folklore, photographer Eva Woolridge, recently debuted her latest photo series titled “Size of a Grapefruit”. The project, which won her the prestigious Leica Women Foto Project Award, was inspired by Eva’s surgery and the microaggressions women face in the medical field. Her photo series explores the sexual, spiritual, and emotional nature of #femininity. You can view more of Eva’s work on her Instagram @ewphotos1 and on her website. #TFInspiration #BlackWomenArtist #leicaphotography

Posted: November 18th, 2019.

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#CapCut I am so very glad that my cousin sent me this picture of my Grand Parents house. For my Auntie's 80th birthday, I decided to recreate the picture. I hope it is something that remains with the family for generations!! #family #NC #acrylic #glass #generations #TheDunns #legacy #blackwomenartist #mixedmedia #Art #womanownedbusiness #veteranowned

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“In order to tell the truth, you need to invent what might be missing from the archive, to collapse time . . . to formally move things around in a way that reveals something more true than fact.”

Simone Leigh (b. 1967) is an American artist whose work focuses on explorations of community, Black feminism, and the traditions and material culture of the African diaspora. Over the past two decades, Leigh has created artwork that situates questions of Black femme-identified subjectivity at the center of contemporary artistic discourse. Her sculpture, video, installation, and social practice explore ideas of race, beauty, and community in visual and material culture. Leigh often draws her concepts and inspirations from anthropological, historical, and colonial archives that represent stereotypical views of black women through a European lens. She creates new forms incorporating her research on these archives with African aesthetics and Black feminist concepts.

In 2022, Leigh was the first black woman to represent the United States in the Venice Biennale.

Image 1: A large head sculpture that is work-in-progress in her studio

Image 2: Untitled, 2022, stoneware

Image 3: Brick House, 2019, bronze

Image 4: Last Garment, detail, 2022, bronze, steel, metal, filtration water pump, water

Simone Leigh Edited by Eva Respini. Boston : Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston ; New York : DelMonico Books, [2023] HOLLIS number: 99157252441903941

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📚#ArtIsAWeapon Reposted from @blackwomeninvisualart 📚 Art Books + Black Women for Winter/Spring/Summer 2024 - newly released, preorder, or coming soon. ▶️ Swipe for more and feel free to comment below what other titles should be on our list!

📖 Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial - The second book in a three-volume series on Black American artists, featuring work from the 1950s to the 1970s that responded to the cultural, political, and social concerns of the era. Authored by Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins #earnestinelovellejenkins, Alaina Simone @alainasimone.inc , Celeste-Marie Bernier #celestemariebernier

📖 The Art of Remembering - art historian and curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw @professorshaw explores African American art and representation from the height of the British colonial period to the present.

📖 Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art (The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas) - In Grime, Glitter, and Glass, Nikki A. Greene @nikkigphd examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture. 

📖 Mickalene Thomas: All About Love - Texts by Beverly Guy-Sheftall @bevshef, Claudia Rankine @claudiarankine, Renée Mussai @mussairenee and more. This major survey publication further affirms Thomas’ status as a key figure of contemporary art. The book also covers her distinct visual vocabulary, drawing on themes of intergenerational female empowerment, autobiography, memory and tenets of Black feminist theory. 

📖 Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940 - How modern and contemporary artists across the African and Caribbean diasporas transformed European Surrealism into a tool for Black expression. by Maria Elena Ortiz @contemporarychica with contributors Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel @annettejosephgabriel , Negarra A. Kudumu @negarraakudumu Ashley Stull Meyers @ashleyontheinternet and more.

Click on there profiles or search the titles to ADD these to your bookshelves!

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[tessiearts]

My take on an African magical girl apprentice and her superior.

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To anyone who ever thought I gave AF about an opinion lol 🖕🏽🙃♊️