Artists include legacy, emerging, mid-level and established artists. CHARLY PALMER offers drawings of heroines created for his current book, “The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families.” CHRIS MALONE uses clay, beads and other media to create a sculpture inspired by dancers Pearl Primus, Misty Copeland and Michaela DePrince. AYO SCOTT brings the story of the “Me Too” movement to life with a portrait of its founder, Tarana Burke. CARL JOE WILLIAMS introduces us to women who made a difference in his personal life with a tryptic of his mother, aunt and grandmother. FRANK FRAZIER’s latest work from his Civil Rights Shoe Polish Series is an Afrocentric depiction of protests for social justice.
Among the legacy artists whose work continues to set the bar and to influence those who follow, ELIZABETH CATLETT’s Mother and Son lithograph, SAMELLA LEWIS’ original sketches and GWEN KNIGHT’s serigraph, The Girl, offer differing views of what it means to be a woman and Black in America.