Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesSir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick […]
Mad Dash: 50 Years of Arts/Industry
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesJack Earl, one of the first Arts/Industry artists-in-residence, said the Arts/Industry residency in the Kohler Co. factory felt like a “mad dash at something.” Mad Dash: 50 Years of Arts/Industry is […]
Seeing Through Stone
San Jose Museum of Art 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA, United StatesThinking beyond exhibitions that are about prisons and instead oriented towards artists who help provide a vision–and a model–of abolition in practice, Seeing Through Stone highlights global networks of care […]
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women
Renwick Gallery Pennsylvania Ave. at 17th St. NW, Washington, DC, United StatesCotton, wool, polyester, silk — fiber is felt in nearly every aspect of our lives. The artists in Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women mastered and subverted the everyday material throughout […]
Mary Ann Peters: the edge becomes the center
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United StatesSeattle artist Mary Ann Peters (born 1949, Beaumont, Texas) has attended to overlooked narratives for almost forty years, interpreting her research through mediums including painting, sculpture, and installation. Peters unearths […]