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Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Description: Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This view of the installation includes a small room in which a vanity with two chairs has a crown painted on the wall above. Words, directions, are written on the wall for the performers to the right of the vanity table.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Description: Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This detail view of the installation shows the directions and dialogue script written on the wall for the performers. A black dress hangs with a pair of white rubber boots beneath. A portion of the yellow vanity table is visible with one chair.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Description: Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Text in black covers the two walls shown in this view. Hanging from the ceiling is a two-part black form. Over the short wall, the chain link fence imagery can be seen. The wall text is titled, Queens.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Description: Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This portion of the installation has many elements. In the foreground is a black table with microscope and glass slides on it. In the background is a boxing ring with a gurney in the center on which is strapped down punching bag. Men's dress shirts and a mural of the "Stretchman" is on the rear wall.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Description: Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This portion of the installation includes a figure pierced with arrows and knives. The artist refers to him as the "wound" man. In the foreground, are two leg splints with suspended latex tubing.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Description: Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. This portion of the installation includes a frame in the shape of a satellite dish from which hangs many paper tags. The satellite dish shape is attached to a three tier stool. Behind the dish shape is chain-link fence type material.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan

Pages from a Quiet Book: A Societal Labyrinth

Description: Image of part of an art installation at the Salt Lake Art Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The boxing ring contains a gurney on which is a strapped down punching bag. A television monitor playing found footage of alligator gardens and Esther Williams hangs high from the ceiling.
Date: 1992/1994
Creator: Cheal, Susan

Generation Mess

Description: Each of the photographs in this group includes the black and white portrait of a young person layered with walls and words. These photographs were included in the exhibition Parallax Presents: Self-Conceptions, University of North Texas Fine Art Photography Club in September, 2012, in the Lightwell Gallery in the Art Building on the University of North Texas campus.
Date: 2012
Creator: Claes, Ashley

Woman and Nautilus

Description: The painting exhibits a woman in the center of the canvas. She is surrounded by a bare tree, curved and nestled geometric shapes that create a landscape. Some gray brick shapes are at the woman's left. At her feet is a large nautilus and she cups in her hands a small plant.
Date: 1932
Creator: Compton, Carl Benton
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Artist interviews and revisionist art history: women of African descent, critical practice and methods of rewriting dominant narratives

Description: Article reflecting on over ten years of conducting and collecting interviews with and by women artists of African descent in a variety of formats (e.g. narrative arts writing, academic research and documentary film/video) to note the specific ways that artists’ interviews help to rewrite art-historical narratives.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Cross, Lauren E.
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Skin Quilt Project

Description: This is an excerpt from the documentary, "The Skin Quilt Project," that focuses on skin color representation. The documentary features scholars, writers, and quilters from across the country, who discuss issues of skin-color politics in the African-American community. Through the stories of African-American quilters we are able to understand how the fellowship and practice of quilting has enriched peoples lives, and given them a sense of pride in their cultural heritage.
Date: 2010
Duration: 4 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Cross, Lauren E.

Brooch

Description: The silver and copper brooch is a triangular shape with a triangular shaped opening inside which is a coiled piece of metal with a second coil on one of the corners of the brooch. The surface is shiny and smooth.
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

Brooch and Earrings

Description: The earrings are made of silver circles pierced with off-centered circle cut-outs which are in turn pierced with curlicue ribbon pieces of metal. The brooch is a triangular shape with an opening of a similar triangular shape which is also in turn pierced with a curlicue ribbon of metal. Also on one corner of the brooch is a second curled metal piece.
Date: unknown
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

Do Ya Wanna Dance?

Description: The foreground is pink and the sky a darker pinkish red. In the foreground is a green table like form and leading to it is a pink and purple striped pathway leading from a blue platform. A yellow and orange cordial glass appears to be dancing with a purple cordial glass. These forms can be seen in this artist's three-dimensional works. Here the glasses appear particularly active. Three green cordial glass shapes are placed on the blue platform and one on the striped walkway. Several small geome… more
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

It's Not Always Black and White

Description: The geometric black, white and gray collage appears to depict a person afloat in the middle of a body of water. However, a shape like this artist has used before for a cordial glass sits atop a set of three steps in the foreground and receding into the distance are planks ranging from white to black. There are some cutouts in the platform that appear to be traps for the seated figure.
Date: 1988
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

It's Not Always Black and White

Description: A two-part shape that resembles this artist's three-dimensional cordial glasses stands in an interior into the floor of which is a rectangular cut out. Into this recess in the floor falls two small triangular shapes. Two windows are on the walls of the interior while a square shape is cut out of the ceiling. The artwork is made up of white, purplish grays and black.
Date: 1988
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
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