WHEN:
September 18, 2024-March 2, 2025
WHERE:
CAAM I 600 State Drive
Exposition Park
Los Angeles
California, 90037
TICKETS:
For more information and tickets visit the California African American Museum website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...Featuring thirty artists and artist collectives and four archives, this mixed media exhibition and accompanying catalogue examine the impact of George Washington Carver on contemporary art and science. George Washington Carver was a pioneer of plant based engineering and one of the nation's earliest proponents of sustainable agriculture. In the early 1900s, he built his Jesup Wagon, a moveable school to share soil and plant samples, equipment and other agricultural knowledge with Black farmers. Carver's then radical ideas including organic fertilizers, crop rotation and plant based medicines, bioplastics and construction materials are now recognized as the forerunners of modern farming techniques and conservation. A trained and practicing artist, Carver used natural materials such as peanut and clay derived dyes and paints in his many weavings and still life paintings. World Without End explores how contemporary artists and scientists working today engage with Carver's ideas and interests. Alongside contemporary artworks, including newly created works by five artists, the exhibition features rarely seen archival material, including Carver's paintings, drawings, laboratory equipment and notebooks. Both the exhibition and its forthcoming catalogue, which includes previously unpublished material documenting Carver's life and work at Tuskegee University, reframe and center Carver's lasting impact on art and science..."
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Terry Adkins
Ash Arder
Kevin Beasley Julie Beeler
Diedrick Brackens
Sheila Pree Bright John Cage
Colectivo Cambalache
Carolina Caycedo, Alonso Gil
Federico Guzmán
Robert Colescott Karon Davis
Abigail DeVille
Charles Gaines
Michelle Glass
Terrick Gutierrez
Mohamed Sleiman Labat
James Brandon Lewis,
Red Lily Quintet Candace Lin
Nour Mobarak
Mimi Onouha
William Padilla-Brown Alicia Piller
Judson Powell Noah Purifoy
Linda Dounia Rebeiz
Sam Shoemaker Tavares Strachan Henry Taylor
Hana Ward
Jack Whitten Amanda Williams
