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If It Wasn’t for the Women: Grounded Perspectives
This year’s annual panel discussion celebrating women of color in the arts will explore depictions of landscapes. Panelists Allison L. Norfleet Bruenger, Sarah Sense, and Tiff J. Sutton will discuss their relationships to the environment and how it informs their practice. The discussion will be moderated by Charlie Farrell, the 2022–2024 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow. This program is supported by the Mary Strauss Women in the Arts Endowment.
This program will be offered in person at the Museum and will also be livestreamed. See below for ticketing and registration information.
American Sign Language interpretation provided for this program.
Panelist bios
Allison L. Norfleet Bruenger is an artist based in St. Louis, Missouri who creates mixed-media assemblages. Norfleet Bruenger received a BFA from the College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio and a BA in Metalsmithing/Jewelry Design from Maryville University in St. Louis. Her current series, “Adornment & Assemblage,” is a snapshot in time to present an environment. Inspired by her love of nature and the female image, Norfleet Bruenger creates works using acrylic mediums, color pencils, ephemera, and found objects that center on the beauty within nature, from the smallest insect to the splendor of lands that surround us.
Alison L. Norfleet Bruenger
Sarah Sense is an artist from Sacramento, California. She received a BFA from California State University, Chico and an MFA from The New School, Parsons School of Design, New York. Sense was the curator/director of the American Indian Community House Gallery from 2005-2007. She has been practicing photo-weaving with traditional basket techniques from her Chitimacha and Choctaw family since 2004. After moving to South America in 2010 for research, her work changed to include travel journals, landscape photography, and family archives. Recent work includes commissions for Florida State University and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art that take the form of map and landscape weavings that address colonial impacts on climate, and reinstate Indigeneity with traditional weaving patterns while decolonizing colonial maps.
Sarah Sense
Tiff J. Sutton is a portrait photographer based in St. Louis, Missouri. Her work is characterized by the Black gaze, dual perceptions, and unique landscape, placing Black femininity at the forefront. Through complex, layered images, and introspective portraits, Sutton’s work focuses on selfhood and personal landscapes. She has attended community colleges and Washington University in St. Louis. Sutton has been featured on NPR and at the Humble Arts Foundation. Sutton won the Black Women Photographers + Nikon Grant and was a resident at the Gullkisten Center for Creativity in Laugartvn, Iceland in June 2022. She draws upon Black feminist thought to create abstracted portraits of Black women.
Tiff J. Suton
Ticket information
Tickets for the on-site program may be reserved in person at the Museum’s Information Centers or through MetroTix. All tickets reserved through MetroTix incur a service charge; the service charge is waived for tickets reserved at the Museum.
This lecture will also be livestreamed for free via Zoom and will have automated closed captions. Livestream attendees must register to receive the Zoom link.
A closed-captioned recording of the program may be posted on the Museum’s YouTube channel and at slam.org at a later date.