Search Searching Art21…. Welcome to your watchlist Look for the plus icon next to videos throughout the site to add them here. Save videos to watch later, or make a selection to play back-to-back using the autoplay feature. Carrie Mae Weems. Read more. Videos Carrie Mae Weems in "Compassion". Season 5 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century". Themes Medium. Carrie Mae Weems born April 20, is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography.
She achieved prominence through her early s photographic project The Kitchen Table Series. Her photographs, films and videos focus on serious issues facing African Americans today, including racism, sexism, politics and personal identity. She once said, "Let me say that my primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of Afro-Americans in the country.
Weems is Artist in residence at Syracuse University. Spotted a problem? Enter your The HistoryMakers username. Enter the password that accompanies your username. From to , she participated in the graduate program in folklore at the University of California, Berkeley. In , Weems completed her first collection of photographs, text, and spoken word entitled, Family Pictures and Stories. She has since created a plethora of books tackling numerous issues, and her most recent project Grace Notes: Reflections for Now , explores the role of grace in the pursuit of democracy.
Throughout her three-decade career, Weems has been an artist in residence and visiting professor at numerous locations. She has been recognized by several institutions and awarded multiple honorary degrees. In January of , a year retrospective of Weems works was featured at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, marking the first solo exhibition featured at the museum by an African American woman.
Weems was also presented with one of the first U.
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