Happenings

Presented by the Hood Museum of Art, Black Womanhood: Icons, Images, and Ideologies of the African Body explores the history of the icons and stereotypes of black womanhood through a variety of material that depicts perspectives from the traditional African, Western colonial, and contemporary global spheres. The objects on display cover a broad range of media, numbering more than 100 sculptures, prints, postcards, paintings, textiles, and video installations. Subjects of the exhibition encompass beauty ideals, fertility and sexuality, maternity and motherhood, and women’s identities and social roles. A 370-page illustrated catalog accompanies the exhibition. Black Womanhood will move to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College in September and to the San Diego Museum of Art in January 2009.