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born 1953 United States
Carrie Mae Weems (born April 20, 1953) is an American artist working in text, fabric, audio, digital images and installation video, and is best known for her photography.
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I just feel that I need to work at things that matter to me, that uplift me, that inspire me, that carry me.
Let me say that my primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of Afro-Americans in our country.
Showing in major institutions has given me the privilege to widen the field, not just for other artists, but for a public looking for signs of themselves.
It’s taken 40 years for people to catch up with the depth of the project.
We do have the possibility to live a considered life.
Family Pictures and Stories’ is only now really beginning to be shown in a very serious way.
I have a platform to share certain kinds of ideas.
I never think that I’m doing anything that is important.
There’s something grand in the knowing and the creating of ourselves, and something grander still about how we know and create our personal histories.
The MFA program as a course of study, extending one’s education in the arts, was fairly new.
any of the discussions continue to happen around notions of the black artist, as opposed to the best artist. We are still sidelined in a very particular way.
To feel comfortable in the world, to know you have a right to be, I can’t even begin to say how important that is for me and for everyone.
To have somebody in your corner who simply believes in you and encourages you to go for your dreams, regardless of whether they get it or not, that’s a blessing.
It’s been a constant theme in the work I make, and I’m sure it’s borne from the lessons and the life I lived as a young person.
Ultimately, I’m an artist who’s simply asking myself a set of questions about the time and the moment in which we live and its meaning and implications.
As much as I found that I was helping them, they were helping me as much as I was helping them. I’m not simply the giver. I’m also the receiver.
Most young people have no idea what it means to be an artist other than they’re in their studios making paintings or drawings or photographs or videos; but to be an artist is a lot more complicated than that.
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