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Book of the Month: This Long Thread by Jen Hewett
This Long Thread celebrates and amplifies the vast creativity and contributions of women of color in textile art and craft - stories that are so often underrepresented in mainstream media. This story-based book is full of stunningly thoughtful and varied array of interviews, first-person essays, and artist profiles.
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This volume features new watercolor works on paper and assemblages by Betye Saar (born 1926) that incorporate the artist’s personal collection of Black dolls. These watercolors showcase the artist’s experimentation with vivid color and layered techniques, and her new interest in flat shapes. While Saar has previously used painting in her mixed-media collages, this is the first publication to focus on her watercolor works on paper. “Watercolor is something that children use, so I decided, maybe I’ll paint something about children, maybe I’ll paint the dolls,” Saar says. Referencing the underrepresented history of Black dolls through Saar’s artistic lens, this catalog distills several intersecting themes, imagery and objects in Saar’s oeuvre, highlighting her prominent usage and reinvention of Black imagery. It contains 90 color images, including early assemblage works that feature Black dolls, such as Gris-Gris Box (1972) and Mti (1973), plus early sketchbooks and a curated selection of Saar’s Black doll collection. It also includes original essays by Rachel Federman, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, and Katherine Jentleson, Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art, and an interview with the artist by her granddaughter, Maddy Inez Leeser.
Foreward by Julie Roberts, Text by Katherine Jentleson and Rachel Federman, Artwork by Betye Saar.
Published by Roberts Projects 11/1/2022
Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 223 pgs / 178 color / 9 bw.
ISBN 9781733664769