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Sculpting truth to power, Darrell Ann Gane-McCalla on her multidisciplinary social change art practice

Multidisciplinary visual artist Darrell Ann Gane-McCalla talks with Wit about how she uses her body of work to challenge perceptions of power in the arts. The two discuss how Black women sculptors like Meta Warrick Fuller and Augusta Savage helped shape Gane-McCalla’s view of herself as an artist.

Darrell Gane-McCalla. Photo by Wit López, edit by Morgan Nitz
Darrell Gane-McCalla. Photo by Wit López, edit by Morgan Nitz

In this 28-minute episode of Artblog Radio, Wit talks with painter and sculptor Darrell Ann Gane-McCalla. Darrell Ann speaks about how the Ghanaian adinkra symbol Sankofa plays a role in her art practice and why the symbol’s definition of “go back and fetch it” is embedded within her work. She shares why she no longer considers herself a muralist and opposes what she labels “gentrified graffiti.”

Thank you to 40th Street AIR Gallery for allowing Artblog to use the space in order to record this podcast. ARTBLOG RADIO is now available on Apple (iTunes and Apple Podcasts) and Spotify, and available via RSS. This podcast was recorded by Wit López and edited by Morgan Nitz.

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