Tag: African American

The Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers

Quilts from three generations of African American makers in a remote Alabama community demonstrate great skill in deployment of form and colour and a strong collective aesthetic
Lonnie Holley – interview: ‘I started doing my work with a knife, fork and a spoon on sandstone’

Following a traumatic childhood, his art saved him, says Holley. Here he talks about the environment, the coronavirus – and why he’d love a Lonnie Holley museum near a landfill site
We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South

Through the work of more than 20 African American artists, this show explores the soul-stirring art of the American deep south, and the stories behind it
Lisa Corinne Davis: interview

Lisa Corinne Davis talks to Lilly Wei about her multilayered, map-like paintings, the complex relationship between race, culture and history, and her hope that her work will challenge preconceived notions of identity