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Tag Archives: Carletta Carrington Wilson

1. Breathe! at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and several provocative new shows at the Henry Art Gallery

   Provocative artists in several shows at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and the Henry Art Gallery

   This entry was posted on April 14, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized.

   Tags: ", "Illustrating Injustice, "Plural Possibilities and the Female Body, "We Own Our Work", Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, bambitchell: Bugs and Beasts Before the Law, Beth Theilen, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry, Danny Lyon, Donald Byrd, Firelei Baez, Fred hagstrom, Henry Art Gallery, Honore Daumier, Hostile Terrain, Humaira Abid, Linda Wolf, Michelle Kumata, Ria Brodell, Roger Shimomura, The Power of Print", Washington State History Museum

2. Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Suffering

   The Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) WHAT STORY WOULD THE UNINTENDED BENEFICIARIES TELL (WSWUBT), which closes in two days, is a wonderful small selection of artists addressing the suffrage amendment and who was left out. The artists include Carletta Carrington Wilson with a selection from her incredible Letter to a Laundress series that I have […]

   This entry was posted on October 22, 2020 and is filed under African American history, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Black Art, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Feminism, Uncategorized.

   Tags: Bonnie Parker, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Charly Carlos Palmer, Humaria Abid, Monyee Chau

3. Carletta Carrington Wilson’s “letter to a laundress”

           Carletta Carrington Wilson addresses her  “letter to a laundress”  to her great great grandmother, but her profound photo/poem installation currently on view at the Kittredge Gallery in Tacoma  (only until September 29) honors the work of all those who, in her words, “took in wash.”   She found photographs of anonymous […]

   This entry was posted on September 7, 2018 and is filed under African American fiction, African American history, American Art, Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Civil War, ecology, Uncategorized.

   Tags: "Letter to a Laundress" lynching, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Dorothea Lange, FSA photographers, Jack Delano, laundresses, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee

4. Carletta Carrington Wilson “Unchain My Heart”

     At the outset of her poetic presentation, Carletta Carrington Wilson declared that her exhibition “Unchain My Heart” (listen!) is a testament to mystery. Her exhibition at Art Xchange Gallery included selections from three series of works, “constellation of shadows and leaves” (2006) “Orange You Mingus” (2008-9), and “book of the bound” (2011-12). The artist explained […]

   This entry was posted on April 5, 2014 and is filed under African American fiction, Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Black Art, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized.

   Tags: African American Art, Art xchange gallery, Carletta Carrington Wilson, fabric art, poetry, slavery

5. Constructing Black History: The Present and the Absent

   Deborah Willis gives us a glimpse of the rich history of African American photography. Carletta Carrington Wilson reminds us of the silences of slaves with her extraordinary “bound books” and poetry.

   This entry was posted on December 27, 2012 and is filed under Arican American history, Women Artists.

   Tags: "book of the bound" Northwest African American Museum, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Deborah Willis, Florestine Collins, Germaine Krull, slave trade, Zora Neale Hurston

6. Carletta Carrington Wilson’s “Poem of Stone and Bone”

   Carletta Carrington Wilson’s Installation and poetry Poem of Stone and Bone

   This entry was posted on August 2, 2011 and is filed under Carletta Carrington Wilson.

   Tags: "Poem of Stone and Bone", African American Art, Carletta Carrington Wilson, James Washington, James Washington Foundation

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