6 p.m.
SCAD Museum of Art
601 Turner Blvd.
Savannah, Georgia
This in-person and online event is free and open to the public.
As members of the Black Women of Print Collective, Tanekeya Word, LaToya Hobbs, Stephanie Santana, and Ann Johnson showcase the exuberance and expansiveness of Black culture through contemporary printmaking. Join the Black Women of Print Collective in conversation as they illuminate representations of Black interiority and discuss art as a democratic space.
Nestled at the intersection of Blackness and womanhood, the Black Women of Print Collective has cultivated a space that centers Black women as the drivers of their own stories, choosing marginality as a springboard for imaginative possibilities and resistance.
This conversation is moderated by Joël Díaz, director of the SCAD Museum of Art’s Evans Center for African American Studies, and held online and in person in the SCAD MOA theater.
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About the artists
Multimedia artist and scholar Tanekeya Word (b. 1983, Clarskdale, Miss.) is the founder of the Black Women of Print Collective. Word centers her scholarship on the exploration of subaltern spaces: Black interiority in the U.S. and connections to identity, history, memory, and re-memory. Her work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others.
LaToya Hobbs (b. 1983, Little Rock, Ark.) focuses her work on figurative imagery that addresses ideas of beauty, cultural identity, and womanhood as they relate to women of the African Diaspora. Hobbs has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek; Community Folk Art Center, Syracuse, New York; and the Sophia Wanamaker Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Stephanie Santana (b. 1984, Los Angeles) is a textile artist, fine art printmaker, illustrator, and designer based in Brooklyn. Using family archives, Santana engages themes of interiority, identity, and cultural preservation through printmaking, hand embroidery, and quilting techniques that connect her practice to an ancestral lineage of Black women artists and makers. Her illustrations have been featured in the film An Oversimplification of Her Beauty and commissioned by clients like Apple, Nike, and Well-Read Black Girl.
Interdisciplinary artist Ann Johnson (b. London) has been featured in The New York Times and the International Review of African American Art and has exhibited her work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; and Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas. Johnson’s series It Is the Not Knowing That Burns My Soul, which examines the “Black Indian,” was featured in the IndiVisible exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and accompanying catalogue. Johnson is represented by Hooks-Epstein Galleries in Houston and Spillman Blackwell Fine Art in New Orleans.