FORTHCOMING

Let's Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar

Introduction by Julie Roberts. Preface by Elspeth Carruthers. Text by Neil Lane, Dieter Roelstraete, Alexandria Ryahl, Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh, Mary Skarbek, Zoé Whitley. Interview by CCH Pounder.

Organized around Betye Saar’s early work in costume and jewelry design during the 1960s and 1970s, Let’s Get It On explores how this formative period profoundly shaped her pioneering work in assemblage and installation. Through original drawings, essays, archival materials and installation images, the book traces Saar’s evolution from designer to artist, revealing the enduring connections between her wearable creations and her broader visual language. It features newly commissioned scholarship alongside rare photographs, sketches, jewelry, garments and ephemera from Saar’s personal archives, offering fresh insight into the artist’s lifelong engagement with materials, memory and Black cultural expression. The book also . . . .go to book page >>