Lore: What We Were Told | What We Saw | What We Tell Ourselves
Title
Lore: What We Were Told | What We Saw | What We Tell Ourselves
Creator
Black Women of Print
Curator: Tenekeya Word
Artists: Karen J. Revis, Deborah Grayson, Althea Murphy-Price, LaToya M. Hobbs, Tanekeya Word, and Stephanie M. Santana
Curator: Tenekeya Word
Artists: Karen J. Revis, Deborah Grayson, Althea Murphy-Price, LaToya M. Hobbs, Tanekeya Word, and Stephanie M. Santana
Date
2023
Format
fine art prints on paper
11 x 14 inches
11 x 14 inches
Type
print
Description
Black Women of Print continues to expand on personal, familial, spiritual, and creative legacies. Lore: What We Were Told | What We Saw | What We Tell Ourselves is a collection of emic narratives created by active founding members and Cohort II members.
Denotatively, lore is a particular body of knowledge or trandition the lore of Black heroines.
2: something that is learned:
a: traditional knowledge or belief of tribal lore
b: knowledge gained through study or experience ex: the lore of feminist art
3 archaic: something that is taught: Lesson
Each Black woman printmaker has approached the portfolio with varied devices, intertwining theory, myth, technical skills, materiality, etc. into a visual lore.
Denotatively, lore is a particular body of knowledge or trandition the lore of Black heroines.
2: something that is learned:
a: traditional knowledge or belief of tribal lore
b: knowledge gained through study or experience ex: the lore of feminist art
3 archaic: something that is taught: Lesson
Each Black woman printmaker has approached the portfolio with varied devices, intertwining theory, myth, technical skills, materiality, etc. into a visual lore.
Source
Ewing Gallery purchase
Publisher
Black Women of Print
