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Indepth Arts News: "Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists" 1999-06-20 until 1999-08-15 Museum of Fine Arts Houston Houston, TX, USA United States of America
Two of the most critical events in recent history–the civil rights movement
and the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s–influenced all aspects of
American cultural development in the subsequent decades, but were of
particular importance to contemporary African American women. These
women found themselves situated at the intersection of the two movements,
yet also, paradoxically, excluded in many ways from each. Finding it
necessary to forge a third way–unique expressions that represent their specific
and complex experience–African American women artists have produced
creative statements that are innovative not only in style and media, but also in
the revolutionary observations they present. These artists choose to lay their
own imaginative paths into the future, often while simultaneously looking
back to the extraordinary heritage of the creative African American women
who precede them–ancestors whose own artistic expression often found
outlets in nontraditional media such as quilting, beading, and pottery.
The artists and works in this remarkable collection are inspiring and
thought-provoking, and both offer feats of resistance and empowerment.
Each piece has its own vital and singular story to tell, and yet, when brought
together, these works also provide an extraordinary collective voice that
resonates beyond the limits of specific perception, and articulates the
boundless range of human experience.
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