Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer after the city became a

after the city became a flashpoint for nationwide protests touching on much larger issues of race

and many others

It is incredible that so much of my community’s history and material culture is kept in the vaults of these institutions hundreds of miles away from their source

trees—haunts in reverberations of earlier lives that approach abstracted memories of emotional reality

Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer after the city became aBetye Saar (b. 1926) is an artist whose assemblages tell visual stories and convey powerful political messages. A leading figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, she works with found objectsmany of which she gathers on her extensive travelsto explore themes like symbolic mysticism, feminism, racism, and Eurocentric chauvinism. Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer sheds new light on Saars unique creative process, her trips around the world, and the