COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Transforming Hate: An Artist's Book
Creator:
Sligh, Clarissa T.
Description:
Perfect bound in an illustrated paper wrapper with flaps. Issued in a die-cut, four-flap paper wrapper with a gold foil origami crane inserted into a slot on the front. Printed in four colors using offset lithography. Limited edition of 1000 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. Foreword: "This book evolved from a project for which I folded origami cranes from pages of white supremacist books for the exhibition, 'Speaking volumes: transforming hate.' It was organized by the Montana Human Rights Network and the Holter Art Museum in Helena, Montana and opened in 2008. The process of making this book came later. I was trying to look at what it was like for me to turn hateful words into a beautiful art object. What actually evolved from that exploration helped me understand more fully the many levels of oppression and violence at the intersections of race, gender, class and sexual orientation ... We make decisions about who gets to have rights and who is marginalized in our society. From the place I now stand, I can see the courage and strength of my grandmother and mother and the path they made for me. I ask the viewer to question her or his perceptions about history, reality, identity and voice."
Subject:
African American women
Subject:
Artists, Black
Subject:
Autobiographical memory in art
Subject:
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Subject:
Genealogy
Subject:
Racism in art
Subject:
Women artists
Date:
2016
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
108 unnumbered pages (including covers) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Offset lithography
Format/Medium:
Origami (paperworking process)
Format/Medium:
Perfect binding (process)
Format/Medium:
Wrappers
Source:
Transforming Hate: An Artist's Book, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Identifier:
b15615303
Identifier:
i3844179
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
SCAD Location:
SCAD Library (Atlanta)
