This project is funded in part by a grant from Humanities Tennessee, an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arts & Culture Alliance, Knox County, the Department of the Treasury, Jerry’s Artarama, and UTK co-sponsorship from the Denbo Center for the Humanities & the Arts, the Department of Africana Studies, Multicultural Student Life, the College of Arts and Sciences’ Haines-Morris Grant, and the School of Art Programming Committee.
AUGUST 30 – OCTOBER 17, 2024
Lore: What We Were Told | What We Saw | What We Tell Ourselves is the sophomore portfolio from Black Women of Print. With Lore, contributing artists continue to expand on personal, familial, spiritual, and creative legacies. The prints are a collection of emic narratives created by active founding members and Cohort II members.
Denotatively, lore is a particular body of knowledge or tradition the lore of Black heroines
1: the lore of Black heroines
2: something that is learned: a: traditional knowledge or belief tribal lore; b: knowledge gained through study or experience ex: the lore of feminist art
3 archaic: something that is taught: Lesson
Each Black woman printmaker has approached the portfolio with varied devices, materiality, etc. into a visual lore.
Artists include founder, Tanekeya Word, founding members LaToya Hobbs and Stephanie Santana, and Cohort II members, Dr. Deborah Grayson, Althea-Murphy Price, and Karen J. Revis.
Lore was curated by Tanekeya Word, founder of Black Women of Print.
First Friday Receptions
September 5, 2024
October 4, 2024
5-9PM | UT Downtown Gallery
We hope to see you at one or both of our First Friday events! First Friday events are free and open to the public.
Stephanie Santana, When Called Upon / Gathering in the Wake
Panel Discussion
September 16, 2024
5:30PM | McCarty Auditorium, School of Art
Art + Architecture Building, UT campus
Join us for a panel discussion with Black Women of Print members, Althea Murphy-Price, Karen J. Revis, and Tanekeya Word.
This presentation is in collaboration with the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts and is part of their Distinguished Lecture Series.
Artist Lecture | LaToya Hobbs
September 26, 2024
5:30PM | McCarty Auditorium, School of Art
Art + Architecture Building, UT campus
This lecture is sponsored by the School of Art Programming Committee.
This is a hybrid event. Click here to register for the Zoom if you are unable to attend in person!
Black Creatives Meetup | Meet Us at the Gallery
October 3, 2024
6:00 – 7:30PM | UT Downtown Gallery
We’re excited so excited to explore this exhibition together, and will be joined virtually by exhibition curator & founder of Black Women in Print, Tanekeya Word! Plan for an evening that includes a full gallery walkthrough, community conversation and locally made refreshments!
About Black Women of Print
Black Women of Print was founded in October 2018 by Tanekeya Word, a Black woman, visual artist, art educator, scholar and fine art printmaker who resides in Milwaukee, WI. Word was interested in creating an equitable safe place for Black women printmakers who were underrepresented in the discipline of printmaking, a space that is eulogized as democratic.
Black Women of Print offers a counternarrative that decolonizes our highest proficiency level title from the traditional Eurocentric usage of the term master, rooted in trade/union print labor, to the term Established. Established Black women printmakers have brought into being an expansive body of work—personal or through artistic collaboration. We understand that our praxis is not superior to our peers. We are representations of one way to expand knowledge in the discipline of printmaking.
Black Women of Print creates discourse on past, present and future representations of Black women printmakers for equity in printmaking through digital content, institutional and media partnerships, panels, webinars, art lectures, annual portfolios and exhibitions.
LaToya M. Hobbs, In Need of Rest