Exhibited in the U. S. and internationally, currently her work is on exhibit at the Krannert Art Museum (University of Illinois, Champaign), the U. S. State Department's Arts in Embassies Touring Program in the Central African Republic and South Africa, NNYEX Corporate headquarters, the Atlanta Life Insurance Collection, and numerous public and private collections in the U. S., the Middle East, India, and South Africa.

Genesis, Genesis is currently on exhibit at the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, Illinois until January 2001 in the exbitition. " Riversof Spirit: ArtWomen in the African Diaspora". Below see a digitized version of the original collage. Visit the Krannert art Museum website at <www.art.uiuc.edu/kam/>
 
 

 

Chandler's collages have been on international tour with the U. S. State DepartmentÃs Arts in Embassies Program since 1996. Currently, "AileyÃs Autum" and "The Conjure tree" are on exhibit in Bangui, Central African Republic as shown here with U. S. Ambassador Robert C. Perry at the Ambassadorial residence.
 
 

"Queens of the Baaskap"                Collage                20" x 26 1/2 "                    1995
 
 

Excerpts from  Queens of the Baaskap

Robin M. Chandler

QUEENS OF THE 'BASSKAP'

[ In deference to black women domestics in South Africa]

Robin M. Chandler
 

When courage finds you stepping
  into the gilded crucible of violence
Humility and a sense of shame
  ( one's only departure from the beast )
will make you blush.
 

Overwhelming dawn,
egoli sidewalks, bus depots, mansion gates
flourish with the ancient busy-ness of calloused feet.

In public and private moments
my eyes labor to meet theirs,
most avoiding the gaze through invisibility.......
 

Copyright    2000   Robin M. Chandler

 
 
 

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