Empowerment
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview

Empowerment
Susan Earle, curator
Celka Straughn, curator
Kristina Walker, curator
Angela Watts, curator
Celka Straughn, curator
Kristina Walker, curator
Angela Watts, curator
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Empowerment explores ways that art can speak to, question, and subvert various forms of social, institutional, and individual power.
Works of art

late 1800s, Edo period (1600–1868)

unrecorded Chokwe artist
late 1800s–1914

unrecorded Hawazma artist
circa 1979

late 1900s

Michael Mxakaza (active early 2000s)
2005

circa 1970

unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist
1982

unrecorded Achomawi, Northern Maidu, or Shasta artist
late 1800s–early 1900s

Richard Emile Miller (1875–1943)
circa 1910

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851–1938)
circa 1910

Studio of Domenico and Valore Casini
1610–1628

1868–1880

Stephens
1940–1975

Hisi Quotskuyva Nampeyo (born 1964)
late 1900s

early 1900s

Teresita Romero (1894–1991, active 1910s–1960s)
late 1900s–1979

1985–1995

1985–1995

1985–1995

1985–1995

Margaret Trujillo (born 1932)
circa 1979

1950s

unrecorded Igbo artist
1925–1990

Tom Knechtel (born 1952)
1987

Frantz Beauvoir
1974

Edith Stephane
circa 1970

Felicia Fragua Curley (born 1964, active 1978–present)
late 1900s

June Pino Cheromiah (born 1963, active 1985–present)
circa 1990s

Frances Suina (1902–1992, active 1930–1980s)
circa 1970s

Rachel Namingha Nampeyo (1903–1985)
mid-late 1900s

Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo (1924–2008)
mid-late 1900s

1933

circa 1655

Edo period (1600–1868)

circa 1971

Gilbert Minthorn
mid 1900s

Fah Ambers (born 1955, active 1976–present)
circa 1976

circa 1860

Reliable Brothers
mid 1900s

The Clarke Tinwhistle Company
mid 1900s

mid 1900s

late 1800s

mid 1800s

late 1800s–1994

circa 1963

mid-late 1900s

circa 1969

circa 1970

mid 1900s

unrecorded Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian) artist
circa 1970

unrecorded Australian Aboriginal artist
mid-late 1900s

unrecorded Abelam artist
mid 1900s

unrecorded Tonga artist
early-mid 1900s

early-mid 1900s

late 1800s–1987

1960s

late 1900s

1988–1989

1930

cast 1894, modeled 1890

unrecorded Chokwe artist
late 1800s–1914

unrecorded Bini artist
mid-late 1900s

1959

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806)
circa 1782

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
1882

Arlie Regier (1931–2014)
1995

1914

unrecorded Diné (Navajo) artist
1940s–1950s

1975–1985

1900s

circa 1961

circa 1970

late 1800s–1977

circa 1915–1920

1908–1911

early-mid 1800s

circa 1968

Augusta Savage (1892–1962)
circa 1939–1940

Joyce J. Scott (born 1948)
1994–1999

Richard Mawdsley (born 1945)
1995–1999

1992–1993

Clementine Hunter (1886–1988)
circa 1958

unrecorded Bini artist
late 1800s–1975

Luke Watson (died 1948)
1937

early 1900s

Juan Palomino
mid-late 1900s

unrecorded Akimel O'odham (Pima) artist
late 1800s–early 1900s

unrecorded Tohono O'odham (Papago) artist
mid 1900s

unrecorded Musqueam artist
late 1800s–early 1900s

Melania Mazinyani
1988–1996

circa 1390–1400

Andreas Michel (active 1600s)
circa 1620

early 1900s, Meiji period (1868–1912)

mid 1200s