Betye Saar: Performing Artist in New York

About Betye Saar

Betye Saar is an American visual artist whose practice centers on assemblage, combining found materials with printmaking and other image-based methods. Emerging alongside the Black Arts Movement, she has used folklore, domestic objects, and mass-produced imagery to confront how race and femininity are constructed in American culture. Her work often turns stereotypes back on themselves, using collage-like structure to make politics legible through everyday things. In New York City, her work reaches audiences at the DiMenna Children’s History Museum in presentations such as *Betye Saar’s Black Dolls*.