Baltimore-based artist LaToya Hobbs was drawn to printmaking when she was a student at the University of Arkansas after a professor introduced her to Elizabeth Catlett, the late sculptor and ...
On the Fourth of July, in 1970, six American artists declared independence in an Echo Park loft, in Los Angeles. The occasion was the opening night of an exhibition devoted exclusively to the work of ...
Woodland’s Barn Gallery will host a new art exhibition that will focus on honoring Black women heroes, civil rights leaders and women who have been killed by the police. Art. In. Action. is a ...
In scale, it is small — barely 18 inches tall — but its message couldn’t have been more explosive when Los Angeles artist Betye Saar turned a vintage California wine jug, with a label featuring a ...
As a young girl, Elizabeth “Betty” Catlett—born in Washington, D.C., likely in 1915—spent a great deal of time with her grandparents, who had been born into slavery and who took care to teach the ...
As we enter International Black Women’s History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history, putting out powerful stories that depict Black women’s experiences, ...
The highlighted photograph within Shakira Hunt's installation, "Give Me My Flowers — Soft Pedals," embodies the essence of womanhood. (Courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum) From Philly and the Pa.
Pharrell Williams has a new art exhibit aimed at celebrating Black womanhood. Pharrell Williams is the mastermind behind a new art exhibition in Paris, France, which he curated “to be an homage to ...