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Kentucky’s Black Craft Trail and the Unequal Path from Berea College to Lincoln Institute

Avatar photoAvatar photo by E. Gale Greenlee and N.E. Brown June 15, 2023July 11, 2023

The relationship between Berea College and Lincoln Institute is marked by racism, “benevolent” White donors, and Black educators who equipped Black youth with skills in industrial trades.

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The Miraculous Life of an Early Black American Abolitionist and Craftsman

Avatar photo by Xenobia Bailey June 15, 2023August 15, 2023

James Forten was a decolonizer, feminist, father, husband, and craftsman extraordinaire, an organizer, a leader of the elite free community of African Americans.

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Indo California’s Largely Overlooked Craft History

Avatar photo by Jeffrey Gan June 15, 2023July 11, 2023

In backyards, buffets, and barbecues across California, Indo artists and organizers are attempting to record, preserve, and further California Indo culture.

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Cherokee Craftspeople Are Stronger Together

Avatar photo by Siera Hyte June 15, 2023July 11, 2023

Teaching traditional Cherokee craft has always been, and will always be, a political act, central to the work of holding onto one another.

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Remembering a Giant of Japanese Painting

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford June 13, 2023June 13, 2023

Nearly 50 years after Setsuko Mitsuhashi’s early death, her legacy lives on and in the hearts of anyone who sees her art.

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Trompe L’oeil With a Touch of BDSM

by John Yau June 7, 2023June 7, 2023

Sarah Palmer melds a formal device of trompe l’oeil with her content, which largely relates to the objectification of women and how women choose to present or stage themselves.

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Anatomy of a Disputed Emancipation Monument

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer May 23, 2023July 6, 2023

The Chazen Museum of Art in Wisconsin didn’t quite know what to do with a controversial emancipation statue of Abraham Lincoln in its collection until Sanford Biggers stepped in with an idea.

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Seeking Histories and Futures in Soil 

Avatar photo by Yota Batsaki May 21, 2023May 19, 2023

Today’s artists often refrain from imprinting their vision upon the land, instead bringing the soil into the gallery as an archive of nature-human interactions.

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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith on Her Life’s Journey in Art

Avatar photo by Erin Joyce May 16, 2023July 6, 2023

“In this long journey, it is step by step, hand over hand, something like climbing a rope,” she tells Hyperallergic in an interview. 

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Lois Dodd’s Life in Nature

Avatar photo by Faye Hirsch May 10, 2023May 11, 2023

From the mid-1960s, when Dodd first took her Masonite panels outdoors to paint, her production has been shaped by observation.

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Painting the World on an Egg

Avatar photo by Samson Martirosyan April 30, 2023May 3, 2023

Yakov Zargaryan’s collection of painted eggs comprises about 1,200 eggs painted by 940 artists from more than 100 cities in 52 countries.

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The Untold History of Japan’s Women Artists

Avatar photo by Kealey Boyd April 25, 2023April 26, 2023

Her Brush is kin with the growing number of women-only presentations that reveal a fact hiding in plain sight­­: great women artists existed everywhere at all times.

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