Title
Date of Award
5-5-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
School of Art
First Advisor
Melissa Oresky
Abstract
My studio practice explores themes of identity derived from the basic question of Langston Hughes, What does it mean to be a Black artist? My artwork draws from memory, Black Feminist literature, along with the aesthetics of the African diaspora and the Black Arts Movement. In this essay, I reexamine childhood experiences in my mother's hair salon; beauty rituals of U.S. Black women; and the consuming male gaze in Western art to explain how these influences manifest in the artwork of Black-\`BLAK\.
Recommended Citation
Keys, Venise, "Black-\`blak\" (2016). Theses and Dissertations. 511.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/511
DOI
http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2016.Keys.V
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Page Count
24
Comments
Imported from ProQuest Keys_ilstu_0092N_10766.pdf