The original TBWIG exhibition has challenged patriarchal constructions of Black femininity; each has a visual arts exhibition, interpretive panel discussions, artists’ talks, and contextualizing performances that investigate how black women artists produce art, dance, sculpture, and ritual as the highest form of knowledge.
Ebony Dallas
This soft opening is June 29th in a storefront at 251 Post Street, Union Square.
The submission deadline is June 19th.
The exhibition theme this year for 2023 is MOTHERHOOD. We will discuss what MOTHERHOOD means to us. We will investigate the social conditions that profoundly impact Black mothers, and Black mother figures who work towards a collective resistance against a systemically violent society: black mothers gynecologically experimented upon, dating back to slavery, black mothers trafficked and raped, disrupting their ability to claim their own bodies and become caregivers to their children, black mothers incarcerated, addicted forcing them to be absent from themselves and their children, Black mothers so impacted by society, they lose their minds, their homes, and their families, Black mothers who fear for their children while reminding them that their lives have endless possibilities, and Black mothers that assume the roles of MOTHERHOOD without having children or recognition. What are the ways we as artists can honor all the ways Black mothers show up in our Community so that we can move towards healing generational trauma, and in doing so, we create art as ritual practices that heal us through our divine feminine selves?
Please click the link and fill out the application as soon as possible.
Those who fill it out will automatically be placed in the main exhibition on October 19, 2023.
The honorarium for this exhibit is $300.
Thank you in advance for participating in this powerful exhibit. I look forward to seeing all of your work.
Karen Seneferu
Founder and Executive Director
The Black Woman Is God
