IN FOCUS
ON VIEW
What happened to Black womanhood in the 50 years since Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf transmuted Black women’s grief, endurance, strength, and resilience into collective testimony?
By Beverly Aarons
THE COLLECTIVE
Guest Writer Charlotte Watson Sherman travels to Bainbridge Island Museum of Art to view Carletta Carrington Wilson’s retrospective exhibit, Object Lessons, in which the artist explores memory, ancestry, and the power of objects.
In the opening of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Ntozake Shange speaks about the process of creating the work and her recognition that everything she wrote was simply to be, for colored girls. On September 19th, we'll make colored girls the center of our 4th Anniversary and hope you can join us for a beautiful day of art and celebration!
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