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Artist Talk: Tanekeya Word

September 26, 6:15 pm7:45 pm

In-person

Learn about Black Women of Print and the two portfolios published by the collective of printmakers in the Museum’s collection from founder Tanekeya Word. After the talk, join a behind-the-scenes viewing of the portfolios Continuum and Lore: What We Were Told | What We Saw | What We Tell Ourselves in the Herzfeld Photography, Print, and Drawing Study Center, and enjoy refreshments in Windhover Hall hosted by Milwaukee Art Museum’s African American Art Alliance and Print Forum.

Space is limited for the viewing; reserve your spot by emailing community@mam.org by September 19.

 

Event Lineup

6:15–6:45 p.m. | Artist Talk with Tanekeya Word in Lubar Auditorium
6:45–7:45 p.m. | Print viewing in the Herzfeld Study Center and reception in Windhover Hall. Groups will rotate for two half-hour viewings.

 

About the Artist

Tanekeya Word creates multimedia visual art on paper—drawings, paintings, narrative forms, and fine art prints—that centers the everyday fantastical lives of Black women and girls. Presented in quotidian object scale, no larger than the human body, her works are serialized with focus on Black geographies, literature, material culture, and nature in harmony with the Black body.

Word is the founder of Black Women of Print, a homeplace for Black women printmakers. She holds a BA in English/Afro American Studies from Howard University and a MA in Arts Management from American University. Word is a doctoral student in Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Word’s dissertation (2024) is entitled: Black Womanhood + Black Aesthetics in Art Education.

Tanekeya Word has participated in national exhibitions and her work is held in private and public collections such as Milwaukee Art Museum, The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Research Institute, etc.

 

Image: Photo by Margaret Muza Photography