Women Artists, Culture and Community

A GROUP EXHIBITION OF BLACK WOMEN ARTISTS Women Artists, Culture and Community

December 1 until December 31, 2022

The impact of Covid-19 and the protests that followed over the state of Black Lives brought more awareness of the fragility of Black life and expanded an examination Black Women’s lives, their way of building Culture and Community.  This exhibition of captures work from four artists who in real time are codifying the way Black Women are building Art using Culture and Community as an essay of their lives. From mixef media Harlem based Taeesha Muhammad who exposes the daily lives of Muslims in New York to photographer Kay Hickman who captures the ordinary and extraordinary lives of Black Brooklynites in the streets to Sika Foyer’s practice of drawing on paper, quilting fabrics and tying sticks as a connection to her African culture and Koren Martin’s photo essay on Philadelphia. Black Artists live and work in communities and produce works from extraordinary to every day and this exhibition dive deeply into the ideas, stories and the way to create work in these unusual times.

LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

TAEESHA MUHAMMAD, KAY HICKMAN, SIKA FOYER AND KOREN MARTIN.