Theaster Gates Artist Installation To Speculate Darkly Reinterprets Craft and Fosters Community
April 16, 2010 by All Art News
Filed under Artifacts & Decorative Arts
MILWAUKEE, WI.- Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, Jr. has reached out to area craftspeople and the African-American community to reinterpret for the present day the legacy of Dave Drake, a slave in antebellum South Carolina who famously adorned his pots with poetic couplets. The installation, titled To Speculate Darkly, will transform the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Decorative Arts Gallery from April 16 through August 1, 2010, into an engaging exploration into the significance of craft labor and race in America. To Speculate [...]