Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood

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Cantos features works that navigate a means out of, or parallel to, the many iterations of marginalized identities that are part of our history, present and future. The ArtCenter College of Design exhibition represents a wide spectrum of established and emerging artists engaged in building new and experimental narratives: April Bey, Chitra Ganesh, Lezley Saar, Erica Ryan Stallones, Molly Surazhsky, Mariko Mori, Mai-Thu Perret, Marnie Weber, Saya Woolfalk and The Revolution School.

Based on the premise of sibyls, women throughout history known to foretell the future, the featured artists in many ways are cultural sibyls. Their reimagination of marginalized identities as central and empowered have the potential to impact future cultural conditions. Presenting feminist, queer and trans artists whose work explores boundaries of power and identity, this exhibition aims to create, and often simultaneously critique, new realities. The artists in Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood eschew binary, oppositional positions for fluctuating and situational platforms that allow for slippages, unfixed expressions and alternate meanings.

The exhibition was curated by Julie Joyce, director of ArtCenter Galleries, and Christina Valentine, curator of Exhibitions. Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood is made possible through a generous grant from the Pasadena Art Alliance.