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Black women artists are sensitive in ways that we don’t often explore in the collective imagination. Our artists have always historically had a pulse on the emotional undertones of the country and the political climate. Carrie Mae Weem’s artwork offers us visions of Black women in reflection and contemplation. How can we make space for us to feel and reflect rather than to react or respond at the speed of capitalist productivity? What are we moving through in this moment and who are we beyond the narratives created for us? As some things change many things stay the same. What is our constant?
Through image and text, film and performance, and her many convenings with individuals across a multitude of disciplines, Carrie Mae Weems has created a complex body of work that centers on her overarching commitment to helping us better understand our present moment by examining our collective past. Weems has received a multitude of awards, grants, and fellowships including the MacArthur “Genius” grant; US Department of State’s Medals of Arts; Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; the National Endowment of the Arts; and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, among many others. Major solo exhibitions of Carrie’s work include Carrie Mae Weems: The Museum Series, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2014), and Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, and traveled to: Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2013 - 2014. She lives in Syracuse, New York with her husband Jeffrey Hoone who is Executive Director of Light Work.
This conversation was streamed live on @visforvoices Instagram, follow for more information.
We are calling all Black women everywhere to submit art, songs, stories, visions by December 31 at visforvoices.com.
Black women artists are sensitive in ways that we don’t often explore in the collective imagination. Our artists have always historically had a pulse on the emotional undertones of the country and the political climate. Carrie Mae Weem’s artwork offers us visions of Black women in reflection and contemplation. How can we make space for us to feel and reflect rather than to react or respond at the speed of capitalist productivity? What are we moving through in this moment and who are we beyond the narratives created for us? As some things change many things stay the same. What is our constant?
Through image and text, film and performance, and her many convenings with individuals across a multitude of disciplines, Carrie Mae Weems has created a complex body of work that centers on her overarching commitment to helping us better understand our present moment by examining our collective past. Weems has received a multitude of awards, grants, and fellowships including the MacArthur “Genius” grant; US Department of State’s Medals of Arts; Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; the National Endowment of the Arts; and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, among many others. Major solo exhibitions of Carrie’s work include Carrie Mae Weems: The Museum Series, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2014), and Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, and traveled to: Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2013 - 2014. She lives in Syracuse, New York with her husband Jeffrey Hoone who is Executive Director of Light Work.
This conversation was streamed live on @visforvoices Instagram, follow for more information.
We are calling all Black women everywhere to submit art, songs, stories, visions by December 31 at visforvoices.com.
