Join the artists via Zoom for a panel discussion about the process of creating the work for the exhibit "Nine Artists | Nine Months | Nine Perspectives."
Thursday, August 26, 6:30-8:00p
Via Zoom
ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONNine Artists | Nine Months | Nine Perspectives: Birth of 2020 Visions
on view NOW -August 29, 2021
Featuring: Adjoa J. Burrowes, Julee Dickerson-Thompson, Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter, Michele Godwin, Francine Haskins, Pamela Harris Lawton,Gloria Patton, Gail Shaw-Clemons and Kamala Subramanian
This exhibition presents the conception, gestation, and birth of Project 2020, a collaborative artists’ books project nine Black women artists were compelled to create to transcend and transform the traumatic events of the year 2020—one of the most tumultuous in the last 100 years. Their responses, perspectives, and reflections were inspired by the continuous struggle for justice for BIPOC bodies, the effect of COVD-19 on the health and social welfare of marginalized people, the lack of response from the federal government, and the synergies created by socio-political grassroots movements like BLM and the election of the nation’s first BIPOC woman vice president. Artmaking became a transgressive act—their artivism, documenting their perspective and vision as mature Black women artists.
VIEWING DETAILS | GALLERY HOURS
Wednesday - Thursday from 10am - 8pm
Friday-Saturday from 10am - 6pm
Sunday from 12 - 5pm
Please note: Masks are required for entering Pyramid Atlantic.
This exhibition is made possible in part through support from the Maryland State Arts Council, The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Department of Parks and Recreation, Prince George’s County.
Art credit image above: Francine Haskins & Adjoa J. Burrowes
Photo credit image above: Stereovision Photography
