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Skeena Reece is a renowned Canadian First Nations artist whose multi-disciplinary practice includes such genres as performance art, photography, and video art. Reece's work uses humor and critique to take back power in indigenous communities. Of Cree, Tsimshian, and Gitksan descent, Reece considers issues of cultural heritage, resistance, and the harm of settler colonialism. This volume documents Reece's solo exhibition Honey and Sweetgrass held at James Madison University in 2021 and features an interview with Reece as well as critical essays on her work.

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Exuberance celebrates African American painters and challenges commonly held mindsets about abstract art and who makes it. This focused presentation of paintings features a range of works from the 1950s to present day, forging cross-generational dialogues about racial identity, dynamics of color and of pattern, as well as space, rhythm, and movement. Featured artists include Charles Burwell, Nanette Carter, Lisa Corinne Davis, Lamerol Gatewood, Rico Gatson, Felrath Hines, Norman Lewis, Erika Ranee, Ronald Walton, Benjamin Wigfall, and Susan Zurbrigg.

This beautifully illustrated publication documents artist Nekisha Durrett's immersive exhibition True Grit at James Madison University's Duke Gallery. With the words "Watch Me Bless This House" spelled out in 14-foot-high panels crusted with the red clay from her home base of Washington, D.C., Durrett's installation inverts the association of true grit with the macho swagger and "frontier justice" in the Western film of the same title and instead honors the power of place-making, African American resistance to genocide, and the strength of family matriarchs who understand an altogether...