Renderings: New Narratives and Reinterpretations

About the Work

Founded in 1972, the mission of Brandywine Workshop is to promote the creation, documentation, and preservation of a legacy of culturally diverse American art and ensuring the participation of multi-ethnic artists and audiences in the field of fine art printmaking and related technologies. Brandywine's programs provide world-class artists with support for professional development, and opportunities for students to receive mentoring and specialized training in printmaking, digital media, and collections management. We utilize our more than 1,300 print permanent collection, publications, video and paper archives to encourage collaborations and partnerships to provide preservation and promotion of culturally diverse artists...

Thus, Renderings shares much with prior scholarship and thinking about curatorial concepts that reflect upon the inspirations of contemporary artists. This exhibition offers Brandywine the opportunity to provide a continuum of exploring identity in the art of the African Diaspora where artists identity using a variety of racial and nationality factors. What is different today is that many young African diaspora artists attach a greater importance to narratives presented in archival and fashion photography, commercial media, and tourism advertising. Their artwork goes beyond the politics of race interpretations of queer culture and confronts issues of freedom and social justice...

This exhibition seeks to make connections between the growing interest in history reinterpreted, exploring new processes and multi-disciplinary approaches to creative expressions in which the narratives address diverse experiences and new information. It offers multiple opportunities for learning art, culture, history, and assessing social images in mass media by exploring the narratives or through creative art-making, lectures, panel discussions, workshops and classroom assignments that may be geared to the exhibition.

Allan L. Edmunds
President 
Brandywine Workshop and Archives