Alison Saar

CTL-E-4400 · Person · artist · 1980s-present

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Los Angeles-based sculptor and installation artist (b. 1956); MFA, Otis Art Institute, 1981. Work explores the African diaspora and Black women's identity. Created the Monument to the Great Northern Migration (Chicago, 1996) and Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial (Harlem, 2008).

Notes

RELP101 supporting entity: artist of CTL-E-0874.

Relationships

Bronzeville — associated with
Alison Saar's Monument to the Great Northern Migration (installed 1996) stands at the entrance to Bronzeville's historic district, at 26th and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Harriet Tubman — related to
Saar designed 'Swing Low,' the Harriet Tubman Memorial dedicated in Harlem in 2008, the first public sculpture of an African American woman in New York City.

Sources

Hyperallergic - Alison Saar interview. https://hyperallergic.com/meet-las-art-community-alison-saar-on-her-harriet-tubman-monument-and-finding-inspiration/

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