This word expresses a passivity that obscures the reality of these women’s stories. I prefer the more accurate “erased.”
Edmonia Lewis
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Edmonia Lewis, Prominent Black and Ojibwe Sculptor, Gets Her Own USPS Stamp
The stamp will debut on January 26 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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The Decades-Long Quest to Find and Honor Edmonia Lewis’s Grave
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.
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Fred Wilson Teaches Us How to Pay Attention
In the artist’s intervention at Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum, white and black bodies suggest a deeper, racialized meaning.
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Three Museums Come Together to Tell a History of African American Art
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.