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mixed media assemblage artwork on a beige handkerchief featuring an assortment of small items including a heart filled with small metal spoons and knives, small hands inside a window, small fans, a fish, a magician, and pieces of gray blue lace.

Activity: Look Closely

Make your own work of art inspired by Betye Saar's work, The Fragility of Illusion.

La Caja de Arte de Betye Saar

Celebra el legado artístico de Betye Saar y aprende sobre su trabajo al hacer arte inspirado en cinco de sus obras de arte. Disponible en inglés y en español.

The Betye Saar Art Box

Celebrate Betye Saar's artistic legacy and learn more about her work as you make art inspired by five of her artworks. Available in English and Spanish.

Print on paper showing arrangement of squares; within each square there are strips of colored rectangles that are arranged asymmetrically in shades of red, blue, white, and black.

Object Story: African American Quilting

Contemporary African American quilt traditions and their transformation into new artforms.

Black and brown people wearing red, yellow, and white drape their bodies over the branches of a large tree.

Apariciones/Apparitions

"The body of the dancers, or phantoms, become sources of knowledge, and their gaze holds the viewer accountable, something that is too often missing from history and art; holding space in historically white spaces in ways that they have never been inhabited before.” -Carolina Caycedo, artist

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Nature as Artistic Inspiration

How are artists inspired by nature? How do artists combine observation and imagination to create artwork? 

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