Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise

Drawing from Maya Angelou’s 1978 verse, Still I Rise uses female portraiture to re-imagine more nuanced portrayals of women, with a focus on women of color. Artists Genevieve Gaignard, Deborah Roberts, Tim Okamura, and E2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien) explore female power, social privilege, and misogyny through existing works and commissions. The exhibition, on view in Kidspace beginning June 22, 2019, includes Roberts’ found-material collage and photography, a site-specific work by Gaignard, Kleinveld and Julien’s perception-changing photos, and a massive interactive installation by Tim Okamura. Still I Rise offers counterpoints to the ways the female subject is often represented and inserts gender and race in unexpected ways and surprising contexts.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.