Wed 12/9 @ 7PM
The current exhibit at Artists Archives of the Western Reserve on view through Friday, January 16, 2021, draws on a major exhibit they mounted last year. SeenUNseen featured a major collection of African-American art from Atlanta, augments by the work of 32 Cleveland-area artists. The new exhibit About Body/About Face focuses on seven of the local artists who were in that show, honing in on figurative works that depict African-American subjects in paintings, drawings, photography, mosaics and textiles.
“How we are represented in culture not only reflects our realities, it creates them,” they remind us. “This is particularly true for people of color in America. Vilified, exotified and commodified, for centuries black bodies have been treated as screens, a place to project white desires with little or hostile regard for their own experience.” So AAWR is giving space for these black artists to speak about their own bodies in their own artistic voices.
Three of those artists will be speaking in their own voices during the second of two artist talks: Lawrence Baker, who creates portraits of everyday people; textile artist Tony Williams, and Amanda D. King, founder of the education/art nonprofit Shooting Without Bullets, who is showing a section of her collaborative piece with photographer Matthew Chasney.
They’ll discuss their inspirations and processes as well as issues of identity and representation. It’s free. Register to join the Zoom meeting here.
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