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Jan. 16, 2025

Peabody Essex Museum Showcases Alison Saar ’78 Piece For MLK Day Celebration

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Nov. 18, 2024

Alison Saar ’78 Wins $100,000 Trellis Art Fund Grant

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Jul. 30, 2024

Olympic Sculpture by Alison Saar ’78 Honors People of African Descent

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January 16, 2025

Peabody Essex Museum Showcases Alison Saar ’78 Piece For MLK Day Celebration

Award-winning artist Alison Saar ’78’s 2012 sculpture Weight is one of the featured works in an art installation at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, honoring Dr. Martin Luther […]

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November 18, 2024

Alison Saar ’78 Wins $100,000 Trellis Art Fund Grant

Photo courtesy Nolwen Cifuentes for The New York Times Forbes announced the Trellis Art Fund awarded Alison Saar ’78 a $100,000 grant to deepen and expand her creative practice. Saar, […]

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July 30, 2024

Olympic Sculpture by Alison Saar ’78 Honors People of African Descent

Photo credit: Fred Mauviel, courtesy City of Paris In a feature by Culture Type, celebrated sculptor and printmaker Alison Saar ’78 discusses the vision behind Salon, her sculpture for the […]

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July 1, 2024

Alison Saar ’78 Unveils Olympic Sculpture in Paris

Photo credit: Nolwen Cifuentes for the New York Times The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reported that renowned sculptor and printmaker Alison Saar has debuted her sculpture, Salon, in an inauguration […]

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March 19, 2024

In the Media: Alison Saar ’78 to Create Sculpture for Olympics

Alison Saar ’78, a Scripps alum and critically acclaimed sculptor, has been chosen to produce a sculpture for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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September 14, 2023

In the Media: Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery’s Gettin’ It Done Featured in Claremont Courier‘s Calendar

The exhibition, which opened on August 26, honors the legacy of Scripps College Professor Emerita of Art History Samella Lewis and features works by Black artists, including Scripps alum Alison Saar ’78.

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February 6, 2023

In the Media: New Exhibition by Alison Saar ’78 Opens at L.A. Louver, Art Daily Reports

The exhibition examines the historical and contemporary layers of Black womanhood in the United States.

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June 29, 2022

Remembering Scripps’ Iconic Professor Emerita of Art History, Dr. Samella Lewis

An art historian, curator, and celebrated visual artist, Lewis devoted her life to spotlighting other Black creatives.

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December 9, 2021

Myriam J.A. Chancy to Join Alison Saar ’78 for Reading and Conversation in Support of Haiti Earthquake Relief

On December 18, LA Louver and Beyond Baroque will host Myriam J.A. Chancy, Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities, and Alison Saar ’78 for a reading and conversation. Chancy will read from her recent novel, What Storm, What Thunder.

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November 18, 2021

In the Media: Pasadena Star-News Reviews Concurrent Exhibitions by Alison Saar ’78

The Pasadena Star-News reviewed sculptor and printmaker Alison Saar ’78’s exhibition Alison Saar: of Aether and Earthe, on display concurrently at both the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena and the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College.

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