AH 290 - Creating Their Own Image:African-American Women Artists

Institution:

Pine Manor College - Closed

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Description:

Examines themes and traditions in the history of African-American women artists by exploring the ways black women traditionally use art to challenge social norms and raise the issues of gender and identity in their roles as writers, artists, and activists from the Colonial period to the present. Drawing on the works of artists Edmonia Lewis, Meta Warrick Fuller, Elizabeth Catlett, Betye Saar, Alison Saar, Zora Neal Hurston, Alice Walker and a cadre of other participants, the course will feature those who consciously imbued their work with a social and political agenda to create an alternative vision and commentary of how women of color are represented in American culture on a canvas of one's own making. Fall 2009 and Spring 2011. Group: I. Future scheduling of this course is contingent upon final approval.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pmc.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 731-7000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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