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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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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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🎨#ArtIsAWeapon

“𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕤𝕥 𝕚𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘, 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕖, 𝕚𝕟 𝕝𝕚𝕗���� 𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟. 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕕.” - #ArtistActivist #FaithRinggold @faithringgold, my hero!

🎥 and caption reposted from @jeffreydeitchgallery 🤩 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 🤩

Growing up during the Harlem Renaissance, Faith Ringgold took inspiration from the city, her neighbors and the culture around her to create her 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓈𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁 portfolio 🎶🎺🎨

Now, Ringgold’s works are in the 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 of museums like @guggenheim , @themuseumofmodernart and @whitneymuseum to name a few 😎😎

We are happy to share a clip from #Androiddevelopers showcasing Ringgold’s 𝒷𝓊𝒷𝒷𝓁𝓎 personality and 𝒾𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓃𝓊𝒾𝓉𝓎 (the video celebrates the artist’s mobile app, ‘Quiltuduko’) 💛🤳💛

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Excerpt from @AARP #DisruptAging:

"I have made so much art, and now Quiltuduko is my thing. It’s an art-making app that uses color and design — images instead of the number system of Sudoku. It’s a workout that requires memory and focus, and keeps that brain functioning — for young and old alike. Plus, it’s fun, and you have a piece of art to show for it. I have more than 60 diagrams now, and the themes are based on faces, angles, swirls. I can’t stop making them."

See the full story: www.aarp.org/disrupt-aging/video-disrupt-aging/info-2017/faith-ringgold-quiltuduko-video.html

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#Quiltuduko #BlackArtists #Artists #ArtMobileApp #BlackWomenArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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CECILIA-LAMPTEY BOTCHWAY

COVER MY BACK (2021)

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I took a mini break today and went to see @oasasun amazingly beautiful solo exhibition @welancora The work is stunning. The paper cutting collage, the graphite so rich it reflects, the moments of color. I love the magic " A World To Live In" is a must see. #contemporaryart #modernart #brooklynartist #womenartist #blackartist #blackwomenartists #artistmothers #mixedmedia #drawing #graphite #collage #cutpaperart #modernart https://www.instagram.com/p/CeZ7TaUMhsh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Binary Artwork of Delita Martin

Amelia Jones's book, "Seeing Differently: A history and theory of identification and the visual arts," explores two prominent binary art theories discussed in Chapter 2: Individualism (pg.22) and the concept of Self vs. Otherness (pg.4). The art of Delita Martin represents the art theories of Individualism and the concept of Self vs.Otherness in a binary proposition. Martin creates spiritual artwork that mixes and layers various methods of artistic expression into a “holding” space that converges the visible with the invisible. A spiritual and physical manifestation she calls a “veilscape”. The artwork consist of patterns and symbols that converge and show a “connection between the waking world and the spirit world” (NMWA.com)  

Individualism emphasizes the artist as an individual creator with personal vision forming a binary relationship between the self and the artwork. Delita Martin's "Quilted Angel 2015" artwork represents the binary relationship between her own individual creative expression and her spiritual identity as a black woman. Race itself is a binary of projected and internalized identifications (pg. 44) 

The concept of Self vs.Otherness, explores the binary interplay between the self and self-identity and the perception of others. Delita Martin's "Quilted Angel 2015" also has the binary nature of Self vs. Otherness. The artwork depicts the binary relationship between the artist's self-identity as a woman and her spiritual identity as a spirit woman conveyed through the use of circles (feminine) and blue (spirituality).

Both Individualism and Self vs.Otherness highlight identity as a binary nature of art. Individualism focuses on the binary uniqueness of the artist's identity and their creative expression. In contrast, Self vs. Otherness is more about the binary relationship between the artist's self-identity and perceptions of others. Delita Martin intertwines the binary relationships of gender, race, life and death in her artwork that conveys the complex dialectical nature of relations between self and others that are often “downplayed or ignored” (pg. 37).  

REFERENCES

by: Andria Jones

Representing Women -UNCG - Fall 23

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Shit nothing counting this money and being one with the universe

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[harvardfineartslib]

“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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#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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