Sentences with phrase «works by black women»

Also, it was fantastic to see significant works by black women, including Micklene Thomas, Zanele Muholi, Deborah Roberts, Ebony Patterson, Baltimore - based Amy Sherald and former Baltimorean Theresa Chromati in this context.

Donald Stewart, the sixth president of Spelman College, made it a priority to uplift Black women's talents and capabilities in a variety of fields and facilitated the acquisition of works by Black women artists for the College's permanent holdings.

In 1983, he raised funds to purchase several contemporary works by Black women artists and positioned the College as an institution where objects by and about women of the African Diaspora would be accessible, exhibited and regularly discussed.

Female slave narratives, imaginative literature by black women, autobiographies, the work by black women in academic disciplines, and the testimonies of black church women will be authoritative sources for womanist theologians.

AFRICA FORECAST featured work by black women artists and designers who shape, imagine, and redefine the impact of lifestyle in highly imaginative ways.

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The original lawsuit was filed in late March by two black women who worked in the network's payroll department, and a third colleague later joined it.

Carla Harris, Morgan Stanley's vice chairman of wealth management and senior client adviser, says that leaders often fail black women by not being candid about how their direct reports can improve at work, advance in their careers, or course - correct when something goes wrong.

An unnamed black woman who talked to the Guardian described being discouraged by her work with diversity recruiting programs some time ago.

That's why Unilever and other businesses large and small are working to figure out how to effectively tap into the spending power of African Americans — $ 1.2 trillion, largely controlled by black women.

«They work to tackle racial and gender inequality by raising wages of women, black and Hispanic workers.

I had been afraid of looking a little Pretty - Woman by wearing this combo, but I feel it worked because the dress is a bit longer and looser, and the boots are a softer color in suede instead of a harsh black.

Played by Scarlett Johansson in acid - washed jeans, a tart - ish fur coat and an unkempt black mop of hair, the woman is not human — one scene has her peeling the clothes from her own corpse before carrying on the work of her «predecessor» — but it is unclear exactly what she is, or for that matter what her purpose is.

As the lone African - American woman working at this law firm Robinson has had to work doubly hard in order to gain the respect she desires and she's not about to let the first charismatic, smooth - talking black guy convince her to undo all that hard work by going on a date with him.

Played by Scarlett Johansson in acid washed jeans, a tart - ish fur coat and unkempt black mop of hair, the woman is not human (one scene has her peeling the clothes from her own corpse before carrying on the work of her «predecessor») but it is unclear exactly what she is, or for that matter what her purpose is.

Black Panther is among the first films by the house of Marvel Studios which predominantly has a black cast and also shows a number of strong women of substance who work as the protagonist T'Challa's alBlack Panther is among the first films by the house of Marvel Studios which predominantly has a black cast and also shows a number of strong women of substance who work as the protagonist T'Challa's alblack cast and also shows a number of strong women of substance who work as the protagonist T'Challa's allies.

Co-created by Rae and Larry Wilmore, the HBO hit comedy about the two women navigating work and relationships in south Los Angeles explores the black female experience not really seen onscreen since UPN's Girlfriends.

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Directed by John Maclean - who Fassbender previously worked with on short films Man on a Motorcycle and Pitch Black Heist - Slow West tells the story of Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit - McPhee) who embarks on a quest across the American frontier to be reunited with the woman he loves.

A standalone Black Widow film directed by a woman is reportedly in the works, with Johansson expressing interest in reprising her role.

Newcomer Lupita Nyong» o was honored with the Best Breakthrough Performance Award at the 7th annual Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon for her work in critically acclaimed film, 12 Years a Slave, presented by fellow actress, Alfre Woodard.

The film The first American feature by an African - American lesbian, Dunye's «The Watermelon Woman» stars its director as a video - store clerk and aspiring filmmaker working on a project about a long - forgotten black actress of the 1930s.

As a Black woman working in education, Nicole Young's goal is to improve the quality of life for students of color by improving the quality of educational opportunities available to them.

* Agaat, by Marlene Van Niekerk, about South Africa from the 1940's to present time, and the relationship between a black servant and the woman she works for.

These disturbing pieces — definitely not for the squeamish — refer to the infamous work of Dr. J. Marion Sims, who, in the mid-19th century, pioneered the field of gynecology by experimenting on black women without anesthesia.

RADICALS II At the Brooklyn Museum in April, a smaller exhibition, «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 - 85,» organized by the museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, came with work by more than 40 artist - activists and a dynamite sourcebook - style catalog.

The following selections are drawn from two related bodies of work — the series Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968 — 2008 (2005 — 08), and Unbranded: A Century of White Women 1915 — 2015 (2015), which are the focus of the exhibition Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded currently on view at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.

Included in the exhibition are works by Marina Adams, Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, Lucas Blalock, Alex Dodge, Carroll Dunham, RJ Messineo, Beatriz Milhazes, Matt Mullican, Adam Novak, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Hanna Sandin, Robert Smithson, Joseph Stabilito, Ruth Vollmer, Peixuan Wang, and Jack Whitten.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is presenting works by 21 black women artists working in abstraction from the 1960s to the preWomen in the Arts is presenting works by 21 black women artists working in abstraction from the 1960s to the prewomen artists working in abstraction from the 1960s to the present.

Portraits: Black Women's Lives An exhibition with works by Sonia Boyce, Claudette Johnson, Maud Sulter and Ingrid Pollard.

Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists (September 6 — December 1, 2012) featured works by Chakaia Booker, Sonya Clark, Maya Freelon Asante, Maren Hassinger, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Joyce J. Scott, and Renée Stout.

The repurposing, by black rural women, of scraps of worn work clothes and other textile remnants into functional bedcovers became expressive, formally sophisticated testaments of the African American struggle.

According to Kathleen K. Desmond in her book, «Ideas About Art,» «Even in the 1986, revised edition only 19 illustrations of women's art (in black and white) appeared along with the 1,060 reproductions of work by men.

Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another — and within the larger history of abstract art — for the first time, revealing the artists» role as under - recognized leaders in abstraction.

I have always championed the contribution of black women and that's still very much part of what I do: In 2015, I curated a group show at Hollybush Gardens called «Carte de Visite», featuring work by three black women artists who wouldn't normally show there.

Boyce's exhibition «Scat: Sound and Collaboration,» presented by Iniva in 2013, focused on the significance of sound in art bringing together two immersive video works along with artefacts from the Devotional Collection, Boyce's archive of CDs, cassettes, vinyl records and other ephemera charting the history of black women in the music industry.

Brooklyn Museum's «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 - 85» reorients the conversation around race, feminism, political activism and art during the emergence of second - wave feminism by highlighting the often dismissed work of women artists of cWomen, 1965 - 85» reorients the conversation around race, feminism, political activism and art during the emergence of second - wave feminism by highlighting the often dismissed work of women artists of cwomen artists of color.

Ads Imitate Life features work from three celebrated series by Thomas, titled: Branded, Unbranded: Reflections in Black Corporate America and Unbranded White Woman, allowing for an in - depth investigation into the visual language strategies of advertising and the cultural stereotypes in which they are rooted.

Another work in the same series places naked pole - dancing black women amidst police guns and protesting figures, a murky scene perhaps inspired by the tear - gas clashes that took place in Ferguson, Missouri last summer.

Organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, Magnetic Fields is the first U.S. exhibition to place abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another.

While her work would remain unknown for the entirety of her life, today she is widely celebrated for her black - and - white depictions of young women, frequently in the nude and blurred by slow shutter speed and long exposure.

Clark was more recently included in Radical Women: Latin American Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2018) and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2017), Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2017); The Other Transatlantic, MoMA Warsaw, MMK Musuem fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2017); Being Modern: MoMA in Paris, 1929 - 2017, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris (2017); Modern Art and St Ives, Tate St Ives (2017); The Shadow of Color, curated by Rita Kersting, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2016/2017); Making and Unmaking, curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); Life Itself, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2016); Adventures of the Black Square, Abstract Art and Society 1915 - 2015, curated by Iwona Blazwick and Magnus Petersens, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2015).

Last month Nengudi was honored at the United States Artists (USA) Assembly, after recieving a fellowship by USA in 2016, and this month Nengudi's work will be featured in the Brooklyn Museum's «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women Artists, 1965 - 85,» opening April 21st.

Co-curated with Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, «Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970» (2008) presented work by 40 women artists from Australia, Cuba, Europe, Kenya, South Africa, and the United StWomen Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970» (2008) presented work by 40 women artists from Australia, Cuba, Europe, Kenya, South Africa, and the United Stwomen artists from Australia, Cuba, Europe, Kenya, South Africa, and the United States.

After her husband died, Stern consigned a portion of their collection, including many works by black artists, among them David Hammons (above), Wangechi Mutu (below), Simone Leigh, Yinka Shonibare, and Lynette Yiadom Boakye, whose painting of five black women in white dresses sold for more than $ 1.5 million, setting an artist record.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: 2018 Open SpacesKansas City, MO 2018 Color of the Year Presented by Pantone and X-RiteUrban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2017 Solar Flair: Celestial Bodies in MotionAlbrecht Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO 2017Light and ShadowMildred M. Cox Gallery Kemper Center for the Arts William Woods University, Fulton, MO 2017The 19th Annual National Juried Competition,: «Works of Paper» 2017Long Beach Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ 2017 - 2018 Teardrops That Wound: the Absurdity of War, George Tsutakawa Art Gallery, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian and Pacific American Experience, Commission Work «Break Into Blossom», In collaboration with Phong Nguyen and Justin Shaw 2016 Vision: An Artist's Perspective, Gutfeund Cornett Art Kaleid Gallery San Jose, CA 2016 Novus Conceptum, Hannah Bacol Busch Gallery Bellaire, TX 2015 Generations: Forty Hues Between Black and White, OCCCA (Orange County Center for Contemporary Art), Santa Ana, CA 2015 Somewhere Between Black and White, Fiber Art Network, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 2015 Old Enough To Know Better, Cranes Art Gallery 105, Philadelphia, PA 2014 The 2nd Annual Juried Artist's Book Exhibition, WoCA Projects, Fort Worth, Texas 2014 The Living Mark Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland OR 2014 Subconscious, Flow Art Gallery, St Louis MO 2014 A Dream and a Memory, St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis MO 2013 Missouri 50, Fine Art Building Sedalia, MO 2013 Art / Identity, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA 2013 26th Annual Women's Work, Old Court House, Woodstock, IL 2012 Contemporary Women Artists XVI, Saint Louis University Art Museum, St. Louis MO 2012 UCM Faculty Show, UCM Gallery of Art and Design, Warrensburg, MO 2012 Color!

Curated by Daniella Rose King Opening Reception: June 11, 2017, 3 - 6 pm LaKela Brown Nontsikelelo Mutiti Sam Vernon Patrice Renee Washington Lachell Workman We Buy Gold presents THREE.: On Visibility and Camouflage, works from Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter, opening on Sunday, June 11th from 3 - 6 pm at 387A Nostrand Avenue in Bed - Stuy, Brooklyn.

Goodman's legacy was unique: it was founded by a woman in 1966 — a time when very few women were owning and running businesses — and had provided a platform for black artists to exhibit their work despite apartheid laws against this.

Works by AfriCOBRA artists are featured in group exhibitions including «Soul of a Nation,» «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 — 85,» and «Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement.»

Working in very different contexts during a period of global political and aesthetic foment, the artists here are united — like the women in the Brooklyn Museum's equally ground - breaking recent survey «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965 — 85» — by their doubly marginalized posiwomen in the Brooklyn Museum's equally ground - breaking recent survey «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965 — 85» — by their doubly marginalized posiWomen 1965 — 85» — by their doubly marginalized position.

The graphic work by Bourgeois presents isolated body parts, animal and insect imagery, breastfeeding women and anthropomorphic furniture in black and white as well as primary colors with mastery of line and a sculptor's sense of depth and gravity.