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This exhibition was created as an assessment tool for students enrolled in Black Women Writers at Metropolitan State College of Denver. Each mask is a visual analysis of the novels the students are required to read. This body of work insists that students challenge their notion of what it means to "read".
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This body of work unites Akan akua'ma figures and Akan adinkra symbols--life and death--together to bear witness to women's resiliency, their relationship with ancestors, and their commitment to life's longing for itself.
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"Sequels" and "Early Editions" explores the intersection between African American women writers' fiction and aesthetic visual communications represented as masks.
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This on-going series offers me an opportunity to explore masks as a gateway to ancient and contemporary spiritual lessons and truth.
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�Spirits in the Trees" explores bottle trees as a site for the living and dead family members to commune, and it ponders the relationship between family trees and trees of life.
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The series �Akua�s Children� is a study of akua�ba (plural akua�ma) figures�Asante abstract or, less commonly, naturalistic nude black wooden figures with flat disc-like heads that are expressions of fertility and beauty.
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