Artist Faheem Majeed curated the exhibition
Post Black Folk Art in America 1930 — 1980 — 2016 for Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago, which consists of 110 objects by modern and contemporary African American artists who have had no academic training.
Taking his cue from Glenn Ligon and Thelma Golden's 2001 exploratory concept of «post-Black» — a term describing artists adamantly against being labeled «black artists» so that they might explore a multiplicity of ideas concerning racial blackness — Majeed engages these questions around folk and outsider by adopting a similar non-essentialist and inquisitive stance in
Post Black Folk Art in America.
These issues also frame
Post Black Folk Art in America and bring attention to Intuit's majority white stakeholders who have constituted its primary audience.
Installation view of
Post Black Folk Art in America 1930 — 1980 — 2016 at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago.
Directing support to artists across social difference in economic disparities, while recognizing and enabling creative self - determination, is the call launched by
Post Black Folk Art in America, and these commitments will require the same exploratory spirit that energized audience encounters with black folk art in the first place.
As visitors to Majeed's show, we similarly require a broad view to understand how
Post Black Folk Art canvases this spectrum between the particular and the public.
Post Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980-2016 features artists such as Ronald Lockett, who created more than 350 works before dying from HIV / AIDS related pneumonia.
In this interview with Dan Gunn, artist and curator Faheem Majeed discusses his exhibition
Post Black Folk Art in America 1930 — 1980 — 2016, a reflection on the Corcoran Gallery of Art's groundbreaking 1982 exhibition Black Folk Art in America 1930 — 1980.
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Post Black Folk Art in America: 1930-1980-2016 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago (July 15, 2016 - Jan.
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Black Panther everyone who contributed to the movie's thunderous debut:» For the people who bought out theaters, who
posted on social [media] about how lit the film would be, bragged about our awesome cast, picked out outfits to wear, and who stood in line in theaters all over the world before even seeing the film... To the press who wrote about the film for
folks who hadn't yet seen it, and encourage audiences to come out... And to the young ones, who came out with their parents, with their mentors, and with their friends... Thank you for giving our team of filmmakers the greatest gift: The opportunity to share this film, that we poured our hearts and souls into, with you.»
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black boy, you might not have a lot of contact with college educated
folks who look like you, and spending a year with a teacher who is also
black and who is college educated, might allow them to imagine themselves in that kind of a role, and shift their own expectations and aspirations,» Papageorge told the Huffington
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