Comments on: Reflections on a transformative year http://artmatters.ca/wp/2008/12/reflections-on-a-transformative-year/ The Art Gallery of Ontario Blog Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michele Wallace http://artmatters.ca/wp/2008/12/reflections-on-a-transformative-year/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Michele Wallace Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:30:15 +0000 http://artmatters.ca/wordpress/?p=196#comment-176 I wish to comment on your exhibition of Faith Ringgold's mural "Die" (1967), which is being featured at your museum and which is featured in a post with picture on the contemporary 1960s art on the AGO site. I have written a short piece about "Die" as well as a notice concerning your exhibition of this painting on my blog at mjsoulpictures.blogspot.com. I am Faith's daughter Michele Wallace and thrilled by your exhibition of this important painting. I've got a link to your page exhibiting the painting and your comment, which was somewhat disappointing in its lack of recognition of the true sequence of events leading up to the racial and cultural developments of the 60s in the United States. It's true much mainstream art of the 60s was not political but it is also not true that African American art was predominantly not political. Almost all revolutionary politics of the 60s in the United States stemmed directly from the activism of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s, i.e. Rosa Parks, the Emmett Till incident, Martin Luther King's leadership of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Brown vs. the Board of Education Supreme Court Decision ending the legal segregation of the American schools. You can find my particular comment on Die at http://mjsoulpictures.blogspot.com/2009/01/american-people-die-1967-by-faith.html and lots more on art and politics on the site in general. Dr. Michele Wallace, Professor of English, Women's Studies and Cinema Studies, the City College of New York the CUNY Graduate Center I wish to comment on your exhibition of Faith Ringgold’s mural “Die” (1967), which is being featured at your museum and which is featured in a post with picture on the contemporary 1960s art on the AGO site.

I have written a short piece about “Die” as well as a notice concerning your exhibition of this painting on my blog at mjsoulpictures.blogspot.com.

I am Faith’s daughter Michele Wallace and thrilled by your exhibition of this important painting.

I’ve got a link to your page exhibiting the painting and your comment, which was somewhat disappointing in its lack of recognition of the true sequence of events leading up to the racial and cultural developments of the 60s in the United States. It’s true much mainstream art of the 60s was not political but it is also not true that African American art was predominantly not political. Almost all revolutionary politics of the 60s in the United States stemmed directly from the activism of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s, i.e. Rosa Parks, the Emmett Till incident, Martin Luther King’s leadership of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Brown vs. the Board of Education Supreme Court Decision ending the legal segregation of the American schools.

You can find my particular comment on Die at http://mjsoulpictures.blogspot.com/2009/01/american-people-die-1967-by-faith.html and lots more on art and politics on the site in general.

Dr. Michele Wallace, Professor of English, Women’s Studies and Cinema Studies, the City College of New York the CUNY Graduate Center

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