ALLEGORIES, RENDITIONS, AND A SMALL NATION OF WOMEN

Exhibition was held at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut

October 2021 - January 2022

The exhibition examines the way that African American portraits can reveal the machinations of elite Black and mixed-race 19th and early 20th-century women. Through this exhibition, the curators aim to visualize critical fabulation and depict the particular way in which these women sought full citizenship through self-making practices in post-emancipation U.S. They existed as Black renditions of constructions of Womanhood that never considered them, and they were a small burgeoning nation of women.