Clarissa Sligh
| Clarissa Sligh | |
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| Born |
1939 Washington, DC |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Website |
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Clarissa Sligh (1939, Washington DC) is an African American artist, based in Asheville, North Carolina.
Her work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Jewish Museum in New York City, and at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Her work has also been displayed at the National African American Museum Project, at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
Biography
Clarissa Sligh has fought against racism all her life. In 1955, at the age of 15, she was the lead plaintiff in a school desegregation case in Virginia.[1][2]
Education
Clarissa Sligh attended the traditionally African-American Hampton Institute, in Hampton, Virginia, where she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1961.
She continued her education in an artistic vein, earning a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts in 1972 from Howard University in Washington DC, and an MBA in 1973 from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Finally, she earned her master's of fine arts degree in Visual Arts from Howard University in 1999.
Field of Work
According to Carla Williams, Sligh's work reflects about our perceptions of normality and our roles in different frameworks such as family, society, gender and ethnic groups. As C. Williams says "In school readers from her childhood, Sligh discovered the model from which to confront the realities of her own life. "[3]
Coast to Coast National Women Artists of Color Projects
In 1988, Sligh co-founded the Coast-to-Coast National Women Artists of Color Projects with Faith Ringgold.[4] From 1988 to 1996, this organization exhibited the works of African American women across the United States.[5]
Books
- What’s Happening With Momma?, Women’s Studio Workshop Press, 1988[6]
- Reading Dick and Jane with Me, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1989[2]
- Voyage(r): A Tourist Map to Japan, Nexus Press, 2000
- Wrongly Bodied Two, Women’s Studio Workshop Press, 2004
- It Wasn’t Little Rock, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2005[2]
- Wrongly Bodied: Documenting Transition from Female to Male, self-published with the Leeway Foundation, 2009
References
- ↑ Art Talk with Clarissa Sligh National Endowment for the Arts, March 6, 2012
- 1 2 3 A Thousand Reasons Why Verve Magazine, December 2, 2013
- ↑ Williams, Carla (1995). "Reading Deeper: The Legacy of Dick and Jane in the Work of Clarissa Sligh" (PDF). Image 38 (3/4): 3.
- ↑ "Donor Spotlight: Clarissa Sligh". wsworkshop.org. 26 March 2009. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ↑ Works by Women to go on Display in Wooster Toledo Blade, August 21, 1991
- ↑ ART REVIEW; Pictures in Children's Books, From Cherubs to Divided Faces New York Times, August 18, 1995