In conjunction with the Walker Art Center’s newly opened exhibition Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) created a postcard project to encourage visitors to respond to Kara Walker’s challenging work. The postcard invites visitors to reply verbally or visually to one of three prompts:
What are you suppressing?
What does power look like?
Retell a history
To weigh in on the exhibition and share your musings, pick up a postcard from the Bazinet Lobby and create your reply on the back. Responses will be selected by WACTAC and posted on the Walker blog.
Many of the responses in this installment are from a 1-3 grade Art Lab from Whittier Elementary School. Although they didn’t see the Kara Walker exhibition, they were able to relate to the questions on the postcards.
By Arnaundia
By Terrance Berglund
By Elizabeth Gonzales
By Minnie
By Don Siegel
I have a family tree,and found that I also have an African great-great grandmother who bore her children from a white man named Joel J. Walker , born Feb.11,1799 in Madison County, Kentucky. Her name was Jane Embry. She was a mulatto slave woman. I think about what her life must have been like. On my list of possible relatives, there are many with the name of Walker. I’d be interested in shareing the information going back to 1727 and learning more about the time period of Janes’ life. Nothing was ever mentioned from my fathers side of the family, I belive he did not know of his African heritage. I hope this brings some feed back.
Comment by Dottie Moreno — April 4, 2007 @ 11:32 pm
Dottie, thanks for sharing part of your personal history. It goes to show just how mutual our seemingly divided histories have actually been.
Comment by Katherine Rochester — April 17, 2007 @ 4:42 pm
Dottie,
I actually have a lot of information on Jane’s children – drop me a note at kburtner@swbell.net.
Comment by Keith Burtner — May 16, 2008 @ 1:04 am
Keith, I would be interested in the information that you have on Jane’s children as well. Please feel free to email be at jillian.mast@yahoo.com
Comment by Jill Mast — July 5, 2008 @ 6:05 pm