Crowning Glory

Crowning Glory explores black hair through the powerful and playful expressions of six women artists of the African diaspora. The strands that grow out of and adorn the heads of black women are the central nucleus of this exhibition. As artist Elisheba Israel Mrozik counsels, the black woman is “the mother of humanity–that from which we all came.” Using these words as a starting point, Crowning Glory honors black women, her hair as crown, and the style(s) that she chooses to represent herself–be it virgin, pressed, permed, shaved, dyed, braided, loced, or bejeweled hair.