Sherald, who has a solo show at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, shares her reasons for painting and what’s next for her career.
Author Archives: Rikki Byrd
Rikki Byrd is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches courses on the intersection of fashion and race. She is also the co-editor of the Fashion and Race Syllabus.
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Mickalene Thomas Makes Black Women the Protagonists of Their Own Stories
Positioning black women — artists, actresses, characters, and her own family — as mentors and muses, and as heroic figures in a lineage of their own, Thomas overrides oppressive narratives.