Introduction

This module takes you around the globe and study women artists of the late-twentieth to twenty-first centuries. We examine art and identity and the international voices of women making art worldwide.

Consider this: What is the difference between migration and diaspora? Migration may be defined as "the movement of persons from one country or locality to another." Diaspora may be defined as "the forcing of any people or ethnic population to leave their traditional homelands, the dispersal of such people, and the ensuing developments in their culture." These two scenarios are important to a deeper understanding of the women artists and works we'll explore this week.

Topics

• worlds together--worlds apart
• international women artists
• unusual methods and materials
• crossing the cultural divides
• personal visions, global concerns
• anti-war art by women–Mona Hatoum, Doris Salcedo
• Sheela Gowda–installation artist and political activist
• Mella Jaarsma–social activist artist, "What it's like to wear another’s skin"

Outcomes

By end of this module, you should able to

• List the women artists of these eras
• recognize the styles produced within the eras and discuss about the influences
• project where women artists are heading beyond post-modernism
• discuss the zeitgeist of the times in a variety of regions outside of one’s own
• examine the popular culture, craft, and decoration that characterize younger North American female artists today

Women in World History

In this section of Women in World History, international contemporary women artists and influential cultural issues are discussed.

Kara Walker

• A review of Kara Walkers Sugar Baby sphinx: This is a NY Times review of Kara Walker’s Sugar Baby sphinx. The review includes a slideshow of this and some of her earlier works.

• From Helga Crane to KAra Walker: The African American Female, Artist