Carrie Mae Weems Wins $625,000 MacArthur âGeniusâ Award:
“Artist Carrie Mae Weems is one of 24 recipients of this year’s fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, commonly referred to as “genius” grants. Over five years, she will take home $625,000. At 60, Weems is the oldest recipient this year.
For more than three decades, Weems has worked principally in photography and video, often combining text with images of Africans and African-Americans to explore the complex history of black identity in America.”
(Via Art in America – Most Recent.)