THE GREAT FRAME UP SUPPORTS AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS FEBRUARY FEATURE: CARRIE MAE WEEMS BY ANGELA M. JACKSON s a local custom frame retailer and art gallery, The Great Frame Up in West Des Moines is dedicated to supporting local artists in the community. This month we introduce our readers to Carrie Mae Weems she is considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists of our times. A “Let me say that my primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of Afro-Americans in our country.” More recently however, she expressed that “Black experience is not really the main point; rather, complex, dimensional, human experience and social inclusion ... is the real point.” - Carrie Mae Weems Carrie Mae Weems was born April 20, 1953. She is an American artist who works with text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video but is
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