Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME . Small Environments, University Galleries, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Though Saar did not travel to Africa until 1977, she and fellow artist David Hammons saw African art at the Field Museum in 1970 while in Chicago for the National Conference of Artists. America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The installation, reminiscent of a community space, combined the artists recurring theme of using various mojos (amulets and charms traditionally used in voodoo based-beliefs) like animal bones, Native American beadwork, and figurines with modern circuit boards and other electronic components. Moreover, art critic Nancy Kay Turner notes, "Saar's intentional use of dialect known as African-American Vernacular English in the title speaks to other ways African-Americans are debased and humiliated." Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Making Community: Prints from Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Brodsky Center at PAFA, and Paulson Fontaine Press, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Betye Saar. For instance, she also included an open, red palm print embossed with the all-seeing eye, as well as a small head of unknown origin (believed to be Exú). CAA Committee on Women in the Arts Annual Recognition Award, 2005 Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA Betye Saar: The Alpha & Omega (The Beginning & The End), Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA, 2014 Art of Black Culture, California State University, Humboldt, CA Trailblazer Award for the Visual Arts, Weeksville Heritage Center, New York, NY ART in Embassies Exhibition, United States Ambassador Maurice Parker Residence, Mbabane, Swaziland, 2008 Popular, Pop & Post-Pop: Color Screenprints 1930s to Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2004 14 3/4" x 11 3/4" x 1 1/4", signed and dated, Letters from Home #5 Birthday Greetings, 1976 The Artist's Museum, Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Located in the heart of Chelsea, we are open Tues to Sat, 10-6. During visits to her grandmother in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts, she watched as the fantastic Watts Towers were slowly being constructed by Simon Rodia out of broken glass, bottle tops, and other junk. A role model for generations of women, Saar has raised three daughters, including two accomplished artists (Alison and Lezley). cat. Betye Saar, Monique Knowlton Gallery New York, NY, 1977 Betye Saar, Rene Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA African American Artists of Los Angeles, Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles. The trips not only strengthened her connection to her own family history, they also enabled Saar to witness artist Simon Rodia constructing his famous towers. Icons of a Century: A Retrospective, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 2001 The Art of Betye Saar and John Otterbridge, 22nd Biennial of Sao Paulo, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil Betye Saar, Art Platform-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 Freedom Fund Award, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Altadena Chapter, Altadena, CA, 2013 Betye Saar, Kozlow Gallery, Encino, CA, 1966 Now Dig This! Creative Expressions: Prints and Works on Paper, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA In one, a “mammy” figure stands on a field of cotton in front of a series of images of Aunt Jemima. Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, North Dakota Museum of Art, ND; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Ishikawa Industrial Center, Kanzawa, Japan; Kyoto National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan; Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea; The Thailand Cultural Center, Bangkok, Thailand; National Art Galleries, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China; The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila Philippines; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia; National Museum of Singapore, Singapore Relatively Speaking: Mother and Daughters in Art, Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA; Rahr West Museum, Manitowock, WI; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY; Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY