Danielle Deadwyler’s ‘Will (To) Adorn’ Is An Artistic Exploration Of The Washerwomen Strike Of 1881

The MINT museum’s latest exhibition, “Will (to) Adorn” is a multimedium showing of artist Danielle Deadwyler’s work. Deadwyler says of the exhibition, “with filmmaking, theatre and performance art as my primary media, public, private work, race, gender, sexuality, and public performance, community dialogue, are themes central to my practice. My work explores how lines are blurred in the labor of black women, especially domestic and sexual work and the impacts on the black body.”

The exhibition centers around Atlanta’s legacy of the Washerwomen strike of 1881.

“Will (to) Adorn holds the city of Atlanta’s legacy of the Washerwomen strike of 1881 as historical perseverance of black women’s will to achieve through cessation,” she said. “The collection of film, installation, and objects, enact a personal biography of the multiplicity of a woman’s labor, the aesthetic of such an endurance on body and mind, and the haptics of self-sacrifice.”