Article: 'Sistas Thrive' mixes humor, strength: Black female artists, both trained and `folk,' comment on culture.

Byline: Dorothy Shinn

May 13--The current show at Summit Artspace is a challenging mix of trained and untrained artists whose single unifying factor is that they are all black women. After that, all bets are off.

The women featured in Sistas Thrive Art Revolution come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and they have different reasons for making art.

There are at least four folk artists in this group, three of whom are painters, the fourth working in ornamentation with found objects.

A definition of folk art may go something like this (which I lifted from the Internet): "art originating among the common people (or by members of a social ...

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