Resist & Reclaim

This project will be an exhibition that will present the work and perspectives of 20 Black and Indigenous women and femme artists through the lens of sovereignty and liberation at the Goldstein Museum of Design (GMD). Resist and Reclaim aims to amplify, expand, and add nuance to Minnesota's cultural heritage by exploring the contemporary and historical impacts of the built and visual environments. Each artist will use varying forms of artistry such as screen printing, hand acrylic painting, fabrication, dye, crochet, cutting, shredding, beadwork, embellishments, and other 3D media on one of 20 second-hand denim jackets sustainably provided by b. Resale, a Black woman-owned thrift store. Denim jackets are used as a means to call back to liberation movements that used denim to highlight the issues of poverty of the Black working class and balance gender divides.