{"id":33957,"date":"2013-09-30T22:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T22:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33957"},"modified":"2013-09-30T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T22:45:16","slug":"antlers-glass-mark-exhibit-of-california-sculptor-in-college-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33957","title":{"rendered":"Antlers, glass mark exhibit of California sculptor in College Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antlers, glass mark exhibit of California sculptor in College Park<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online<\/a>
\nGaithersburg, Maryland
\n2013-09-12<\/p>\n

Virginia Terhune<\/a><\/strong>, Staff writer<\/p>\n

Always looking for new materials, Los Angeles<\/a> sculptor Alison Saar<\/a> heard that an organization she knew needed to sell a pile of antlers cast off by deer in Montana<\/a>. So she bought 200 pairs.<\/p>\n

Eager to work with glass, she spent time at the Pilchuck Glass School<\/a> near Seattle<\/a> learning about the medium\u2019s malleable properties and how to incorporate them into her work.<\/p>\n

Both antlers and glass are integral to the 11 sculptures in her exhibit \u201cStill …<\/a>\u201d coming to the David C. Driskell Center<\/a> at the University of Maryland, College Park.<\/p>\n

In the exhibit, Saar, who is biracial, explores issues of racial identity and bigotry as well as sexism, ageism and love and loss…<\/p>\n

…In \u201cBlack Lightning\u201d (a play on the slang term \u201cwhite lightning\u201d), Saar presents a charred stool, a mop, a bucket and a set of glass boxing gloves hanging from a pole and filled with a liquid tinged with red.<\/p>\n

She said it\u2019s about black men and the futures once thought suitable for them \u2014 to work as a janitor or a boxer but not to work as a president.<\/p>\n

Hateful comments about Obama<\/a> also stirred up her own feelings about being biracial in a culture where often neither black nor white groups accept you as their own.<\/p>\n

In \u201c50 Proof,\u201d Saar presents a metal stand holding a basin filled with a dark liquid. Tubing runs through the basin up through a glass heart and into a clear glass head that is half filled with the dark liquid, which drips from the eyes as tears.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about the theme of the \u2018tragic mulatto<\/a>,\u2019 about being between two worlds, about feeling compelled to align myself,\u201d she said…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Antlers, glass mark exhibit of California sculptor in College Park Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online Gaithersburg, Maryland 2013-09-12 Virginia Terhune, Staff writer Always looking for new materials, Los Angeles sculptor Alison Saar heard that an organization she knew needed to sell a pile of antlers cast off by deer in Montana. So she bought 200 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[15971,15969,5972,15970],"class_list":["post-33957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alison-saar","tag-gazette-net","tag-maryland","tag-virginia-terhune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}