Tag: american art

  • Suchitra Mattai

    Suchitra Mattai

    Suchitra Mattai is a Guyanese-American artist of South Asian descent. Her multi-disciplinary work examines, and unravels, existing historical narratives. Mattai also embraces her distinct Indo-Caribbean heritage. Hoping that it strengthens her interaction with history, she specifically draws from her and her family’s experiences with colonization, migration, and gendered domesticity. What does this look like? Oftentimes,…

  • Minnie Adkins

    Minnie Adkins

    Minnie Adkins is a Kentucky-born American folk artist known for her playful carvings of animals. For her contributions to folk art, Adkins’ work is displayed in books, music, and several galleries within and across her home state. She also appears in the Day in the Country folk art fair, which she co-founded with her husband…