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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.

Let's Spend Some Time Together, Number 2

Description: This collage features extreme perspective with the piers in yellow and orange moving from the center foreground straight to the horizon line depicted by the blue background meeting the black sky. In the left background area are several green geometric shapes that resemble buildings. A pink orb with a hole in the center floats in the left sky area while a purple one floats in the right hand portion of the sky area. Piercing each of these is a long hollow spear that spills tiny black, blue, white… more
Date: 1987
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

Life's Cycle

Description: The artwork depicts a partial circle of geometric shapes through which float some small oval shapes which float out of two vertical white containers. The ground of the piece is a gradation of pale blue to a darker blue at the top edge.
Date: 1985
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

Life's Cycle

Description: The textured artwork consists of pinks and blues predominately. Geometric shapes float on a blue woven background. Making a circular arc, partially seen, are some wedge shapes with pink tops and turquoise sides. At the far left are two cylindrical pink and purple shapes. Floating among the larger shapes are many small open ovals and open chevron shapes.
Date: 1986
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

Liqueur

Description: The cordial glass consists of two pieces which are similar in form. The ebony base holds the sterling silver vessel portion. At the top and bottom of the piece are similar thin silver bands.
Date: 1986
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

Liqueurs

Description: These two cordial glasses are designed in the shape of an angular animal's horn or cornucopia, one piece in wood acts as the stand and the smaller one in metal acts as the drinking vessel portion.
Date: 1986
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

Only Time Will Tell

Description: The blue and black horizontally woven background supports geometric structural type shapes that move through the space. A long purple shape pierces a pink triangular shape in the upper right portion of the work. The piece has the illusion of much depth and metal surfaces.
Date: 1985~
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

Purpleheart Set

Description: The purpleheart set consists of a bracelet, necklace and a pair of earrings. They are predominately made of a dark red wood and silver. The pieces consist of geometric shapes which are connected with silver caps and hinges.
Date: unknown
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

Roll

Description: The brooch consists of a triangular shape with a triangular shaped opening through which a coiled piece of copper twists and emerges and wraps the triangulalr piece.
Date: 1987~
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.

The Separation

Description: The screen print on fabric depicts in a range of blues and some pinks, stairs, blocks, bridges moving through space. Some small triangular shapes float in the upper half of the work.
Date: 1985~
Creator: Crowell-Hilde, Kaki D.
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