TANEKEYA WORD creates mixed media work: drawings, paintings, and prints that center around her understanding of the world as a Black woman artist and scholar. This series of unique/limited prints on view are an homage to Emma Amos and Alice Walker. Word uses the margins of the paper to symbolize the struggle of Black women who are being left behind on the sidelines due to continual oppression. Her works focus on Black interiority, material culture, the value of Black women artists’ perspectives, and the promise to continue the fight for equality.
Tanekeya Word (b. Clarksdale, MS) received her BA from Howard University, her MA from Management American University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Madison, Madison, WI; and more. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, D.C.; and more.
