The Black Woman is God (TBWIG) celebrates the Black female presence as the highest spiritual form – God, and challenges viewers to do the same. Artists bring history and culture alive by refocusing the audience on where humanity really began--the womb of the African woman through musical, performing, and visual artists.
Karen Seneferu
THE BLACK WOMAN IS GOD
In 2021, The Black Woman is God virtual exhibition will assert that celebrating Black women is essential to building a more just society and a sustainable future. The project will explore the intersectionality of race, age, and gender and will dismantle stereotypes of Black women. TBWG will reach out across global communities to reclaim physical space historically denied Black women artists. In doing so, generations will reclaim the legacy of Black women artists.
TBWIG exhibitions reconfigure communal trauma, employing African, Diaspora traditions and practices, connecting dance forms rooted in cultural, historical and cosmological recognition in public spaces with recognizable African motifs embedded in the form. The program will provide a bridge to the meaning of the expressions, exploring the deep cultural connections of the artists to their work. The mission is to assert that we are moving beyond embattled ideologies and communities toward African spiritual growth.
The community connections will address the varying artistic mediums of visual and performing arts, workshops, and artist talks all designed to re-remember that Black people are the first human beings that have contribute to global society- beyond African culture.
The 2020 Black Woman is God exhibition will explore the intersectionality of race, age, and gender and will examine Black women's contributions as artists, healers, and social change-makers. The exhibition will feature over 80 new works by Black women employing painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film/video, mixed, new media, and performance, showing that when Black women create, they are God.
