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Simone Leigh's art consists mainly of sculptures and installations. Her works always concern Black women, their history, and their experience and strength. She is from Chicago and based in New York.
A new statue in Midtown has been generating a lot of discussion, praise and vitriol.
Hobbs’ art serves as a living altar to the multiplicity of Black women’s experiences. Calling the work “reverential,” her ...
Fine artist Latoya Hobbs is inspired by the ordinary yet remarkable happenings of Black women’s lives. Whether it’s the tender silence surrounding a mother cradling her child in bed ...
She met her first husband, Charles Wilbert White, while studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. When the couple moved to New York City in 1942, Catlett taught art at the George ...
By Ash Wu Elsa Honig Fine, an art historian who founded a feminist art journal and published influential textbooks on Black ... the new journal filled. “No one was publishing books on women ...