Give form to Black expressions with artists Alisa Banks, Sauda Mitchell, Carletta Carrington Wilson
In fibers-based sculptural artist’s books and textile collages, Alisa Banks investigates connections between contemporary culture and the African diaspora, engaging ideas of the body, home, and land and referencing traditional craft forms through processes of twisting, knotting, crocheting, and sewing.
A printmaker, archivist, and educator, SCAD alum Sauda Mitchell (B.A., visual communication, 2013) uses QR code technology to connect viewers to archival repositories, exhibitions documentation, and aggregated data. Her artist’s books, prints, and multimedia works serve as a visual response and direct link to stories found deep within the archival landscape.
Using photography, assemblage, and textiles as modes of ancestral memory and code, Carletta Carrington Wilson re-imagines the plantation landscape as literature from which to interrogate notions of possession and seek the unknown.
Join the artists and Joël Díaz, director of the SCAD Museum of Art’s Evans Center for African American Studies, for a conversation on book making as a contemporary art form and the significance and importance of culturally relevant storytelling that offers new entryways into the intimate expressions of Black life.
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This event is open to the public.