SKINNER MUSEUM: Closed
GiveArtist video: vanessa german is THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH, 2022
vanessa german (American, b. 1976)
vanessa german is THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH (2022)
Digital video, 10:13 min.
Directed by Chris Ivey
Collection of the artist, courtesy of Kasmin, New York
vanessa german is THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH, 2022, is a spirited hip hop and spoken word performative work that contextualizes artist vanessa german’s innovative engagement with the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.
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September 2, 2022 to May 28, 2023
vanessa german—THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH
vanessa german* (b. 1976) is an artist, activist, performer, and poet. THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH is german’s response to the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, an early 20th-century cabinet of curiosities at Mount Holyoke. For the exhibition, german began with a question: "...
September 28, 2021 to May 28, 2023
Skinner Museum 75
MHCAM celebrates the landmark bequest of the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum to the College in 1946 with back-to-back solo exhibitions: Lenka Clayton—Comedy Plus Tragedy (September 28, 2021 through May 29, 2022) and vanessa german—THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH (October 13, 2022 through May 28, 2023; previews began September 2, 2022).
