Torch Song,

2020

Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers
Art@Bainbridge, Princeton University Art Museum
February 25–April 23, 2023

Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers brings sculpture, prints, and textiles by the mixed-media artist Alison Saar into conversation with the work of Toni Morrison, whose vast trove of papers from her career as a novelist, essayist, playwright, professor, and editor are held in the Princeton University Library. Saar and Morrison share a dedication to giving voice to the Black American experience, drawing inspiration from past generations and creating space for future cultural production through a dynamic that Saar calls a “cycle of creativity.” The exhibition explores themes that resonate in the works of both Saar and Morrison—musicality, labor, and ancestors—through various facets of each artist’s practice.