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Screenshot of a frame from the Bea Nettles talk at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY in 1974. It shows a self portrait of the artist in a star covered dress, holding her skirt out to the sides. It is hand-colored in blue tones like night and sky.
Jan 27, 2021
Bea Nettles: 1974 Artist Talk at Visual Studies Workshop
Chet La More, Civilians, ca. 1937. Lithograph. Allocated by the US Government, Commissioned through the New Deal art projects, 1943-4-231.
Dec 22, 2020
Pressing Issues Artwork Highlight | Chet La More's "Civilians"
Black and white print of a woman whose face is in shadow slumped over a sewing machine. Her body posture shows exhaustion.
Dec 22, 2020
Pressing Issues Artwork Highlight | Riva Helfond's "Custom Made"
Black and white print that depicts a huddled family carrying their belongings through a desolate, dark landscape. They are robed/veiled and are so close that it's hard to distinguish individual people.
Dec 22, 2020
Pressing Issues Artwork Hiighlight | Joseph Leboit's "Refugees"
Ida Abelman, My Father Reminisces, 1937. Lithograph. Allocated by the US Government, Commissioned through the New Deal art projects, 1943-4-1.
Dec 21, 2020
Pressing Issues Artwork Highlight | Ida Abelman's "My Father Reminisces"
Grid of faces of zoom participants for the virtual opening celebration for Bea Nettles Harvest of Memory. 25 faces are pictured in a grid format.
Dec 18, 2020
Virtual Opening for Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory
Grid of images of headstones taken in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Champaign, Illinois by artist Bea Nettles. The images were taken while she was an MFA student at the University of Illinois.
Nov 17, 2020
Mt. Hope Cemetery Walking Tour with Bea Nettles and David Hays
Image of a black and white print that shows a large sewing machine with protesters at the left side, workers underneath being crushed, and capitalists on the right profiting on the exploitation of the workers. The print is by Ida Abelman.
Oct 22, 2020
Pressing Issues: Women and Labor in the 1930s
Oct 15, 2020
Sowei: The Art of Women's Power
Image of a small open book with text on the left side and a photograph of a woman on the right hand page. She has her body turned to the right but her head is turned to face the viewer. She wears a dress and her hair is up.
Oct 15, 2020
Bea Nettles | The Imaginary Blowtorch
Image of an open book with test of a story on the right hand page. The image at the top of the book, small enough to fit in a human hand, is of a woman's torso with a string bikini.
Oct 15, 2020
Bea Nettles | The Nymph of the Highlands
video still of a chi wara mask from Mali. It is a wooden sculpture of a hybrid creature with a horse's face and horns
Oct 8, 2020
Chi Wara Today