Full Description
This book documents the evolution of the Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum exhibition, from its beginnings in a class assignment, development into a graduate level seminar topic, and physical launch as an exhibition in two venues on the Rutgers University - New Brunswick campus. The student-curated exhibition was the first time the university had conducted a comprehensive and methodical review of its holdings of art by Black women artists. Rutgers students' passion, interest, and research filled holes in the university's records. The book offers strategies for addressing holes in curriculum and strengthening classes to reach university-wide core requirements while also serving student instruction in collections research, visual literacy, object-based analysis, public interpretation, and applied learning. Most significantly, Collective Yearning celebrates the excellent student work manifested in the exhibition.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1: Teaching to Transgress
Chapter 2: Echoes: Speaking from the Treshold
Chapter 3: "Pass the Mic:" A Conversation with Student Curators
Part II
Chapter 4: Self-Making and Identity
Chapter 5: The Brodsky Center and Rutgers Print Collaborative
Chapter 6: Process and Materiality
Chapter 7: The Art of Storytelling
Chapter 8: Alchemy and Spirituality
Conclusion: Seeing Ourselves
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Artist Biographies
Art Analysis Worksheet
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
