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Museum of Glass: Black artist Mildred Howard (museum exhibition) [1]
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Date: 2025-01-29
The Museum of Glass (MOG) in Tacoma, Washington held a special exhibition, A Two-Way Mirror, featuring contemporary Black artists who have used glass to create work that deconstructs social, cultural, gender, and racial identity concerns.
According to MOG:
“In this exhibition, we explore the historical representation of Black people through the medium of glass, ranging from work that borrows the abstraction of African art by exploiting the sophistication of its planar shifts to the production of traditional glass fetish objects like blackamoor pieces. The perception of self is always warring with that of the outside. Glass art has been predominantly devoid of access for historically marginalized people. This was in large part due to the cost of production, racial oppression, and the class division between artist and artisan. This exhibition cannot rectify this but can explore inequity of this history and offer works by artists of African descent that tell their own stories.”
The title of the exhibition, A Two Way Mirror, was inspired by the theory of double consciousness presented by W.E.B. Du Bois in his seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk.
According to MOG:
“Glass is a medium that reflects not only the inner truths of both the viewers and makers, but that of western society as a whole and all the clandestine and muddied histories that lie within its core. The beautiful parts, abject parts, resilient parts, and the opaque all make themselves more evident as the viewer continues to stare through the glass.”
Shown below is Movement IV: Sonata in Eight Notes, made in 2021 by Mildred Howard (1945 - ) with glass bottles, wood, and glue.
Note: these photos were taken on July 12, 2024.
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