Sabra Moore

Sabra Moore is known for her mixed-media paintings and artists’ books that use quiltmaking techniques of sewing and collage to incorporate photographs, fabrics, beads, and other found materials into work that explores family history and women’s stories. Her work during the women’s movement of the 1970s and ’80s as a member of collectives like NY Women’s Caucus for Art (WAC) and Heresies, and as a counselor for the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, is well documented in Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970–1992, (New Village Press, 1992). Below, the New

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Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.

Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.’s He gave and he gave / but he wouldn’t have given at all if I didn’t let him in / if I didn’t cover my body in soap three times / swish oil between my teeth 47 minutes ahead of the time / that I expected him. / (Wounded) (all works cited, 2018) features several images that sit behind a timeworn, family-style “collage” picture frame, decorated with gold accents. The frame strategically occludes much of what we see—through the apertures we take in a shirtless and barefoot man facing away from us; a boy lounging in a tank top and athletic shorts, his face hidden; and socked