Impress your friends with five fast facts about Chakaia Booker, whose work is on view in NMWA’s collection galleries.
The artists in NMWA's “Built to Order” gallery investigate human intervention in the natural world, considering the impact of structures, cities, and societies.
Industrial Aesthetic: The Tire Sculptures of Betsabée Romero and Chakaia Booker
Posted: June 10, 2019
Category: Chakaia Booker
The rubber tire, a globally omnipresent object that is mass-produced more than a billion times each year, is used as a medium by two artists, Betsabée Romero and Chakaia Booker,...
Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for...
The Pre-K Invasion: Developing New Tours for Young Audiences
Posted: May 24, 2016
Category: Chakaia Booker
Dynamic women designers and artists from the mid-20th century and today create innovative designs, maintain craft traditions, and incorporate new aesthetics into fine art in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft,...
Artist Spotlight: Chakaia Booker—Hail to the ‘Queen of Rubber Soul’
Posted: February 9, 2011
Category: Chakaia Booker
In 2002, independent curator and art critic Lily Wei wrote that everything Chakaia Booker does is “filtered through being black, a woman, and an artist.” Although relatively quiet and private...