(Bianca Mirica • The Student Life)
On Feb. 21, the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art hosted its newest exhibition, “She Opens the Door: Women Artists and Writers Shape Language and Space,” curated by Chloe Martinez, poet-in-residence and Claremont McKenna lecturer in religious studies.
The exhibition, supported by the Pasadena Art Alliance, gathers artists from Claremont and the greater Los Angeles area who challenge inherited ideas of ‘women’s work’ and examine how women’s labor has been historically dismissed or overlooked. Pomona Professor of English Prageeta Sharma was one of the six writers who crafted poetry in relation to the CLMA’s newest exhibit.
In this video, Sharma is reading from her newest poetry volume, “Onement Won”, highlighting abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman and explaining how his painting helped her write poems about widowhood, the labor of caregiving and the strain that racism can place on friendship.
Filmed and edited by Bianca Mirica PO ‘29.
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