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Edmonia Lewis

Posted inOpinion

Why the Word “Forgotten” Isn’t Helping Women Artists

Avatar photo by Hall W. Rockefeller February 15, 2022February 15, 2022

This word expresses a passivity that obscures the reality of these women’s stories. I prefer the more accurate “erased.”

Posted inNews

Edmonia Lewis, Prominent Black and Ojibwe Sculptor, Gets Her Own USPS Stamp

by Hakim Bishara January 4, 2022January 7, 2022

The stamp will debut on January 26 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Posted inArt

The Decades-Long Quest to Find and Honor Edmonia Lewis’s Grave

by Talia Lavin March 28, 2018March 28, 2018

The fate of the pioneering black female sculptor was long obscure — but years of sleuthing, by a coalition of the curious and devoted, has changed that.

Posted inArt

Fred Wilson Teaches Us How to Pay Attention

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 14, 2017February 13, 2017

In the artist’s intervention at Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum, white and black bodies suggest a deeper, racialized meaning.

Posted inArt

Three Museums Come Together to Tell a History of African American Art

by Janet Tyson March 16, 2016

MUSKEGON, Mich. — Common Ground, the Muskegon Museum of Art’s current exhibition of African American art, combines works from three regional Michigan collections: the Muskegon museum, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, and the Flint Institute of Arts.

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