Mickalene Thomas contemporary women Alpha Nkuranga’s Born To Walk

Alpha Nkuranga’s Born To Walk took me on a journey

is rescued by the head of the Hunters' Association and brought to Poniktuk

introducing 52 of the province's artists and craftspeople and their highly professional yet dramatically different works

"This Side of Sad is as intimate as a best friend’s confession

seen by more than a million spectators

Mickalene Thomas contemporary women Alpha Nkuranga’s Born To WalkMickalene Thomas's vivid paintings, collages, and photographs explode off the wall. Their larger than life women stare back and down at the viewer, confronting them head on. Over the course of her prolific career, Thomas has created a body of work that expands notions of beauty, gender, sexuality, and race, offering a complex vision of what it means to be a Black woman. In Femmes Noires, Thomas moves breezily between pop culture and the long history