"This body of work includes figures who have what I'm calling a cowpea consciousness: they see themselves as abundant, connected to the land, and harness their collaborative power to enrich their lives," Ward says. "As a backdrop to this work, I look to particular moments in history when this kind of consciousness was viewed as threatening and therefore was intentionally undermined, namely, the origins of sharecropping as well as the 'whitelashing' against Black wealth and collectivism that occurred in the early 1900s."
Aligned with two concurrent group exhibitions in Southern California, Against Monoculture at the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum in Long Beach and World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project, an official exhibition within the Getty Research Institute's Pacific Standard Time initiative, to take place at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, Ward's participation in Atlanta Art Week aims to engage with the historical contexts of Atlanta and its surrounding communities while echoing a growing national discourse.
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