Thesis Abstract

For my senior exhibition I want to bring awareness to the racial and gender inequalities that women of color face in the art world. When you go to art museums and galleries, you are more likely to see work by white artists. For my project I wanted to research and highlight some female artists who I never seen before, and whose work also explores themes of race and gender as well. I designed portrait posters that represent the women of color who are rarely seen in art. I also looked at different museums and their collections to see if there were big racial and gender gaps within the artists they exhibited. In my research I went to an art museum and found that female artists were in the minority, and women of color were an even smaller part of that group. I thought a good way to express my findings was to incorporate them into a booklet alongside photographs I had taken while in the museum.