Where We At Collective
“Cookin’ and Smokin'” poster, 1972
[Photo courtesy of Dindga McCannon Archives, Philadelphia, PA; © Dindga McCannon; photo by David Lusenhop]
“By the 1970s, feeling the pressures of racism from outside the African-American world, and the pressures of Black Power sexism within it, female artists formed their own collectives, without necessarily identifying them as feminist. One of the earliest, called Where We At, was initiated in Brooklyn in 1971 by Vivian E. Browne, Dindga McCannon and the redoubtable Faith Ringgold. After organizing what it advertised as “the first Black Women’s art exhibition in known history,” the group turned its second show into a benefit for black unwed mothers and their children.” (“To Be Black, Female and Fed Up With the Mainstream,” NY Times)
On display with other printed ephemera and artwork at We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 through Sept. 17, 2017 at the Brooklyn Museum
