| Artist Chakaia Booker selected for second installation of the New York Avenue Sculpture Project |
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WASHINGTON, D.C.- Internationally renowned sculptor Chakaia Booker has been selected as the second artist for the New York Avenue Sculpture Project, the only public art space featuring changing installations of contemporary works by women artists. Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the New York Avenue Sculpture Project is a collaboration between the museum, the Downtown DC Business Improvement District, the DC Office of Planning and other local agencies. Based in New York, Booker (American b. 1953) works almost exclusively with recycled tires that are cut, shaped and folded, then woven into dynamic, highly textured sculptures. Her large-scale expressive works fuse ecological concerns with explorations of racial and economic difference, globalization, and gender. “It is wonder- read full article
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