{"id":320,"date":"2020-12-08T15:51:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/?page_id=320"},"modified":"2020-12-16T17:17:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:17:12","slug":"alison-saar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/alison-saar\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Saar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-520\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Alison_Saar_Lecture__wd-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Alison_Saar_Lecture__wd-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Alison_Saar_Lecture__wd-768x304.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Alison_Saar_Lecture__wd.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alison Saar is a contemporary mixed media, sculpture, printer, and installation artist. Born in 1956 in L.A. to Betty Saar, a well known African-American printer and installation artist, and Richar Saar, who worked in ceramics, Alison Saar grew up surrounded by the arts.\u00a0 Saar graduated from Scripps college and later received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design.\u00a0 She works with themes of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the African diaspora, the way the body connects to identity, spirituality, and the experience of powerful women complicated by race and gender.\u00a0 Much of her work is inspired by the Greek, Roman, and African mythology she learned about in college.\u00a0 Saar has received many awards and has been featured in many museums for her work which spans across multiple mediums and is informed by her multicultural experience and the experience of other marginalized groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Female Nude features one of her works<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-352\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-352\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-300x232.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-1024x793.png 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-768x595.png 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM-1536x1189.png 1536w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/414\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.06.24-PM.png 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saar, Alison<br \/>Compton Nocturne<br \/>2012<br \/>Color Lithograph<br \/>19 \u00bc x 25 in<br \/>National Museum of Women in the Arts,<br \/>Promised gift of Steven Scott, Baltimore<br \/>Compton Nocturne<br \/>2012<br \/>Color Lithograph<br \/>19 \u00bc x 25 in<br \/>National Museum of Women in the Arts, Promised gift of Steven Scott, Baltimore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the artist:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2019 Saar Keynote\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d6K8BzGEtMk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/journalnow.com\/entertainment\/arts\/revealing-reflections-alison-saar-s-prints-and-sculptures-make-bold-statements-at-the-weatherspoon\/article_6dc798ac-8fd0-5f8c-8e90-ff17bec9098b.html<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.toledomuseum.org\/art\/exhibitions\/mirror-mirror-prints-alison-saar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Alison Saar is a contemporary mixed media, sculpture, printer, and installation artist. Born in 1956 in L.A. to Betty Saar, a well known African-American printer and installation artist, and Richar Saar, who worked in ceramics, Alison Saar grew up surrounded by the arts.\u00a0 Saar graduated from Scripps college and later received her MFA from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/alison-saar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alison Saar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-320","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/art-history-2560-fall-2020-through-her-gaze\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}