Beverly McIver

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>What can the lived experience of acclaimed painter Beverly McIver teach us about life as an African American woman artist raised in the American South and what insights can we glean about the wider art world?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Expanding on their original conversation stemming from the artists' retrospective exhibition </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Full Circle</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> painter </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Beverly McIver</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> and curator </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Kim Boganey</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> delve into </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Beverly's</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> life journey from her origins in Greensboro North Carolina to her struggles in education her growth as an artist and caretaker and her development as a professor. Exploring captivating shared stories the friends touch on themes of identity race caretaking death and depression and how this has impacted </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Beverly's</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> artistic practice.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Offering thought-provoking insight into the art world how it functions the challenges artists of color in particular can face and the opportunities there are for the next generation this book is ideal reading for students of Art and Design Art Practice Art History Black Studies Gender Studies and Disability Studies as well as Art practitioners and curators.</span></p><p></p>