COVID-19 PAGES Featured Artist – GAIL SHAW-CLEMONS
Gail Shaw-Clemons is a printmaker and mixed-media and artist-activist born in Washington, DC. She earned her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Maryland specializing in stone lithography. She went on to teach art for 24 years at the United Nations International School in NY and retired in 2014 returning to DC, where she currently resides.
With residencies in Africa, Sweden, Ireland, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico she spent summers away making art. She has exhibited extensively with work in collections as far away as China, Brazil, and Sweden. Her work is represented in collections at the Library of Congress, Ballenglen Museum of Ireland, DC Commission on the arts and humanities, and the National Women’s Museum to name a few.
Her submission for COVID-19 Pages is a series called “We Wear the Mask.”
[The] series “We Wear the Mask” was inspired by Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem that speaks to the “metaphoric mask” that [our] ancestors had to wear to disguise their feelings and disappointment while negotiating through a racist American society. Since COVID 19 we all wear the mask.
To visit the exhibition, click here: https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org/covid-19-pages-exhibit/
