Alison Saar reflects on artistic inheritance and the Driskell Prize

THE STORY, IN BRIEF

In a Hyperallergic interview, Alison Saar reflected on the family, historical research and material experimentation behind a practice centred on Black women and girls. The feature marked her recognition as the twentieth David C. Driskell Prize recipient at Atlanta’s High Museum. Saar connected her sculptures’ reclaimed tools and agricultural imagery to resistance, while stressing the mutual importance of artists and scholars in sustaining African American art.

Summarised from Hyperallergic · Jasmine Weber. AFROSCOPE Daily has not independently reported this story.