CARRIE MAE WEEMS Jordan Redd Bio Initially studied

CARRIE MAE WEEMS Jordan Redd

Bio • Initially studied modern dance • Education: – 1981: graduated with a B. A. from the California Institute of the Arts – 1984: M. F. A from University of California, San Diego – 1987: M. A. from the University of California, Berkley • In 1978 she began her first photographic project, called Environmental Profits • Weems was influenced by the work of Roy De. Carava • In 2014 she became the first African-American woman to have a retrospective at the Guggenheim

Photography projects/series’ • Family Pictures and Stories (1978) • Ain't Jokin’ (1987 -1988) • American Icons (1988 -1989) • Colored people (1989 -1990) • The Kitchen Table Series (1990) • Slave Coast (1993) • From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, (1995 -1996) • Not Manet's Type (1997) • Dreaming in Cuba (2001) • The Louisiana Project (2003) • The Museum Series (2006 -present) • African Jewels (2009)

“ There’s still sort of a dearth, a lack of representational images of women. And not, you know, like strong, powerful, and capable, that kind of bull****, but rather just images of black women in the world, in the domain of popular culture. I think it’s one of the reasons that Kitchen Table still proves to be so valuable, or invaluable, to so many women, and not just black women, but white women and Asian women; and not just women, but men as well, have really come to me about the importance of this work in their lives. I find it remarkable. -Carrie Mae Weems

African Jewels

The Louisiana project

From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried __

Work Cited • https: //www. britannica. com/biography/Carrie-Mae. Weems • http: //carriemaeweems. net/work. html “I do this not simply for me, but I do it for the larger cause of equality, that I’m interested in all aspects of equality, and when I feel as though women through my own experience are not being taken as seriously as others, then I think it’s necessary to speak up. I’m not always the most popular girl in the room [laughs], but I think that it’s important. ” • http: //hyperallergic. com/110763/carrie-mae-weemsbrings-change-to-the-guggenheim/ • http: //www. wmagazine. com/story/carrie-mae-weemskitchen-table-series-today-interview