Please join The Colored Girls Museum as we hold our first live tribute to The Ordinary, Extraordinary Colored Girl  Barbara Bullock.  Join us as we celebrate Women’s Herstory Month. The Colored Girls Museum is also celebrating new beginnings, having been featured on CBS Philly and profiled by the Smithsonian. We are also finalists for the Knight Foundation Grant. So what better time to celebrate Women’s History and the continued success of The Colored Girls Museum.

The Ordinary, Extraordinary Colored Girl  –  Ms. Barbara Jane Bullock

Vashti Dubois:  Ms. Bullock lives and works in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. She is an internationally celebrated artist, who is known for her pioneering contributions to the art community. Ms. Bullock is indeed an extraordinary artist, but her contributions to community as an “ordinary” sister, friend, educator and mentor are seldom the subject of her bio. In so many ways, this Museum would not exist as she does, if not for the days I spent sitting with Barbara, talking about what was then an abstract dream. Her quiet and persistent encouragement that we could do it, that it was necessary, and that she could see it, in concert with the collective which rose up to make it the reality has become… all of this compels us to honor this Ordinary, Extraordinary Colored Girl.

Ms. Bullock says:

“My work is a response to the need to make things. To create a visual language that invites dialogue and asks questions. Creating collage structures, layered with texture and imbued with elements of story and history, reflections and investigation…….Reflecting on the regeneration of lost objects and creative residue of the “Used Furniture Series” my sculptures move across the wall, they cast shadows they float on spiritual water they float on air they can easily speak from the ground from the floor from the earth as footsteps they are action figures chasing after spirits they are fragments of keep stakes missing their warm daddies their rooms their secret places waiting for your memory of them”