March 2024 public tour resource page
Our public tour for March 2024 is Women in Art, and it is an in-gallery tour (Cross Currents).
Self-guided tour flyer (contains Myrlande Constant, Elisabeth Osborne, Yayoi Kusama):
Women’s History Self Guided Tour_2024
General resources about women artists and contemporary art:
From Khan Academy: Where are the women artists?
Introduction to Contemporary Art
Gallery 255:
Check out Valeria Piccoli’s training on G255
From the Indigo Arts Gallery, a bio and more information on vodou flags: Myrlande Constant artist
Graciela Iturbide: Artist Profile
From the Guardian: Mexico’s poetic gaze: Graciela Iturbide at 80 – in pictures
Elsa Gramcko: Hyperallergic review of an exhibition, The Gap Between Things and Their Names
ELSA GRAMCKO: THE INVISIBLE PLOT OF THINGS (in this article, check out the photo of Gramcko with her painting, No. 6!)
More information on No. 6, by Gramcko
Sonia Gomes, interview in Frieze: Sonia Gomes Responds to Her Materials
From the Pace Gallery, a video: Of Seams and Stories: The Art of Sonia Gomes
From the Guggenheim, a description of a similar work from the Torções (Twistings) series by Sonia Gomes.
From the National Museum of Women in the Arts: Fabric of History: Sonia Gomes
Gallery 236/250:
From your colleague Ramaa Bhasin, Odundo’s “A Dialogue with Objects”
Article about Odundo’s work: The Shifting Resonances of Magdalene Odundo’s Vessels on the Global Stage
Article about Wodaabe Embroidery
Amazigh (Berber) carpet (G250)
Ait Ouagharda, Berber carpet (G250)
Regions and Types of Moroccan carpets
Bamana mudcloth Metropolitan Museum
From Rose Stanley Gilbert, a video: How Rug Weavers In Morocco Are Working Together To Fight For A Fair Wage
Gallery 303:
Video: Nora Naranjo-Morse: Potter & Poet
Dyani White Hawk: Essay from the MacArthur Foundation
Dyani White Hawk: “Takes Care of Them” by Dyani White Hawk, 2019 – Press Process video from Highpoint
Hearts of Our People — Artist Profile: Dyani White Hawk
Sheila Hicks: Video from MoMA: Sheila Hicks: Pillar of Inquiry | ARTIST STORIES
Sheila Hicks: From the NYT, A Career Woven From Life
Aliza Nisenbaum: From Mia website, a video: A Place We Share, Aliza Nisenbaum
Aliza Nisenbaum: From ArtForum, a video discussing work at Mia: ALIZA NISENBAUM TALKS ABOUT HER WORK
Mimi Gross: The Radiant Fearlessness of Mimi Gross
Mimi Gross at Eric Firestone Gallery
Critical Eye: Mimi Gross in Her World
Gallery 375–and also feel free to walk into G374, with the new reinstallation:
From the Tate: An Introduction to Yayoi Kusama
A bio of artist Elizabeth Osborne, written by Curator Bob Cozzolino.
Wangechi Mutu (G374): Essay on the artist from Khan Academy
Shinique Smith (G374): Shinique Smith and the Politics of Fabric