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Empowerment

Susan Earle, curator
Celka Straughn, curator
Kristina Walker, curator
Angela Watts, curator

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Empowerment explores ways that art can speak to, question, and subvert various forms of social, institutional, and individual power.

Works of art

簪 kanzashi (hair ornament)

unrecorded Chokwe artist, men's comb

unrecorded Hawazma artist, hair pick with Black fist

Ada Bosin (1903–1980), beaded snood with medallion

Hollis Sigler (1948–2001), Haunted by the Ghosts of Our Own Making

David V. Lee (1948–1996), Mother Earth

Chizuko Yoshida (1924–2017), Seascape (Winter Sea Prose)

Michael Mxakaza (active early 2000s), picture made from recycled materials

Max H. Gerbier (born 1951), End of Day

unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist, woven food cover

unrecorded Achomawi, Northern Maidu, or Shasta artist, basket

Somi (born 1978), Cause de la pollution (The Cause of Pollution)

Richard Emile Miller (1875–1943), La Toilette

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851–1938), Green and Gold

Studio of Domenico and Valore Casini, Maria Maddalena, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), La Pia de' Tolomei

Stephens, Portrait of Charlotte Sullivan

Hisi Quotskuyva Nampeyo (born 1964), bowl

Ulrick Jean-Pierre (born 1955), Marie Laveau

Ryan RedCorn (born 1979), Portrait of Chantelle Keshaye Pahtayken & Shay Pahtayken, Plains Cree

Jeanne Rij-Rousseau (1870–1956), Le Parc

Nampeyo of Hano (1859–1942, active 1880–1940), jar

Teresita Romero (1894–1991, active 1910s–1960s), mother and child figure

skeleton with guitar

skeleton with clarinet

skeleton with guitar

skeleton with accordion

Margaret Trujillo (born 1932), storyteller figure

Fannie Nampeyo (1900 or 1904–1987, active 1920–1987), pot

unrecorded Igbo artist, udu (pot-drum)

Tom Knechtel (born 1952), Diaspora

Kehinde Wiley (born 1977); Cerealart Projects LLC, St. Francis of Adelaide

Frantz Beauvoir, Erzuli as Piper

Salnave Philippe-Auguste (1908–1989, active 1958–1989), Colère (Anger)

Edith Stephane, mother and children

Moke Fils (born 1968, active 1986–present), Course au pouvoir (Race for Power)

Felicia Fragua Curley (born 1964, active 1978–present), coyote storyteller figure

June Pino Cheromiah (born 1963, active 1985–present), olla with flute player designs

Frances Suina (1902–1992, active 1930–1980s), male storyteller figure

Du Kun (born 1981), 電音禪境 (Zen Temple of Techno)

Marjorie Schick (1941–2017), Night Bloom

Rachel Namingha Nampeyo (1903–1985), jar with migration pattern

Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo (1924–2008), seed jar

Grant Wood (1891–1942), Near Sundown

David Teniers II (1610–1690), The Deluge

hairpin (kanzashi) with turtle

Richard Fool Bull (1887–1976), pib-be-gwun (flute)

Gilbert Minthorn, purification whistle

Fah Ambers (born 1955, active 1976–present), Hamatsa whistle (metses)

Reliable Brothers, ceramic flute

The Clarke Tinwhistle Company, penny whistle

Johannes Adler, alto recorder

George Cloos, flute in C

dvojnice (shepherd's flute)

sylfa floyte (flute)

rondador (flute)

unrecorded Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) artist, ohe hano ihu

unrecorded Australian Aboriginal artist, didgeridoo

unrecorded Abelam artist, crop blessing flute

unrecorded Tonga artist, nyele (horn)

walking stick flute

David V. Lee (1948–1996), Father Sky

Kay WalkingStick (born 1935), Winter Flight

Elva Nampeyo (1926–1985, active 1940–1985), bowl

Robert Carston Arneson (1930–1992), Forge

Frederick William MacMonnies (1863–1934), Pan of Rohallion

unrecorded Chokwe artist, sansa (thumb piano)

unrecorded Bini artist, oba (king) figure

Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807), Calypso Contemplating the Departure of Ulysses

Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989), Arena

Benjamin West (1738–1820), The Inspiration of the Prophet Isaiah

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), Portrait of a Young Boy

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Sargent Curtis

Arlie Regier (1931–2014), Prairie Steelscape

Roger Shimomura (born 1939), Sansei Woman

Otto Dix (1891–1969), self-portraits

unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist, Yei rug

slompret (trumpet) with mouthpiece

shakuhachi (flute)

Nampeyo of Hano (1859–1942, active 1880–1940); Annie Healing Nampeyo (Queuchawa) (1884–1968, active 1900–1930s), bowl

Bernard Séjourné (1947–1994), Asefi (enough daughters)

Alfi-Alfa (born 1967), Les femmes libres, or Les Fioti Fioti (Women at Liberty, or Free Women)

Beatrice Mandelman (1912–1998), untitled (dressmakers form and skull)

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley

Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962), Shepherd

The Muse of Music

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675–1741), Achilles Discovered with the Daughters of Lycomedes

micromosaic of an amphora with flowers

Harry Bertoia (1915–1978), untitled (sounding sculpture)

Ruth Harris Bohan (1891–1981), Hilda and Studio Light

Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007), Chaotic Lip

Augusta Savage (1892–1962), Portrait of Hugh Samson

Joyce J. Scott (born 1948), Caffeine

Richard Mawdsley (born 1945), Alpha-Omega: Water Tower #5

Petah Coyne (born 1953), Untitled #751 (Craig's Piece)

Wendell Castle (1932–2018), Hanging in the Balance

Albert Bloch (1882–1961), Frieze for a Music Room

Clementine Hunter (1886–1988), untitled (scenes of life)

unrecorded Bini artist, commemorative head of an Iyoba (Queen Mother)

Luke Watson (died 1948), totem pole

Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Seventh Decade Garden IX-X

miniature painting of Krishna with milkmaids

Jorge Daher Guerra (1926–2012), serpent shaped triple vertical whistle

Juan Palomino, quena

Yelimane Fall (born 1945), #28 - That the revelation of incertitude made (by God) to the Intercessor (the Prophet) be my shield against persecution and harm.

unrecorded Akimel O'odham (Pima) artist, basket

unrecorded Tohono O'odham (Papago) artist, basket

unrecorded Musqueam artist, berry basket

Melania Mazinyani, Child Taken by Mermaid

Rose Frances Good Kretsinger (1886–1963), French Basket quilt, or Ivory Basket quilt

cloth with fish design

standing bearded pleurant or prophet

Andreas Michel (active 1600s), lobed cup with floral engravings

chasse reliquary