Theaster Gates : Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories : reflections / Daisy Desrosiers, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gates, Theaster, 1973- artist.

Desrosiers, Daisy, editor.

Colby College. Art Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gates, Theaster, 1973---Exhibitions.

Gates, Theaster.

Gates, Theaster, 1973-.

African American artists--Exhibitions.

African American artists.

Women, Black, in art--Exhibitions.

Women, Black, in art.

Installations (Art)--United States.

Installations (Art).

Exhibitions.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories

Place of Publication:

Waterville, Maine : Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College Museum of Art ; New York : DelMonico Books, 2021.

Summary:

"This book features essays and other reflections commissioned in response to the Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories, a monumental participatory work by Theaster Gates (born 1973). The Cabinet includes nearly 3,000 framed images of women from the Johnson Publishing Company archive, and highlights from the collection appear in this edited volume. Founded in 1942, Chicago-based Johnson Publishing chronicled the lives of Black Americans for more than seven decades through the magazines Ebony and Jet. Composed from arguably the most important archive of American Black visual culture in the 20th century, Gates' work centers the essential and too often unsung role of women in this history. When the Cabinet was exhibited at the Colby College Museum of Art, 12 women from a wide range of disciplines (including archivists, legal scholars, anthropologists and librarians, as well as curators, visual artists, filmmakers, writers and art historians) were invited to reflect on a work that brings a sisterhood of images to light."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Foreword / Jacqueline Terrassa

Preface / Daisy Desrosiers

Introduction / Theaster Gates

Parents, take your children to Theaster Gates's Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories / Krista Aronson

A Black woman's ephemera, an archival reflection / Dorothy Berry

Reflections on the resilience of Black women / Danielle M. Conway

Heart of the matter / Elizabeth Finch

Ebony, Jet, and the gift of second sight: Theaster Gates's Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories as a miraculous moment / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes

Hundreds of boats were used to bring people from their flooded homes to safety / Lareese Hall

Personal reflections on Theaster Gates's Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories / Lynn McKinley-Grant

A catalog of artifacts and unrealized ideas: a response / Erin Murphy

Reach / Asma Naeem

Chords of reverence / Ellen Y. Tani

Hu: a series of poetic episodes in response to Theaster Gates's Facsimile cabinet of women origin stories / Arisa White

Cabinet playlist / Briana Williams.

ISBN:

9781636810089

163681008X

OCLC:

1274118178