Alison Saar

**Alison Saar** (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la Silimiin goli February dabaa anu dali yuuni 1956) nyɛla Los Angeles nuchee ni baŋda. O nuchee ni baŋsim tuma nyɛla din jɛndi African diasporamini gbansabila ban nyɛ paɣaba. 

## Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim

Saar nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Los Angeles, California ka o lammba nyɛ African-American nuchee ni baŋda Betye Saar mini Richard Saar.  

## Pina

* 1984: Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts; Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, New York
* 1985: Engelhard Award, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Artist in Residence, Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, N.M; Artist, Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
* 1986: Artist in Residence, November, Washington Project for the Arts
* 1988: Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
* 1989: Guggenheim Fellowship din daa yina John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
* 1998: Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, New Orleans, LA
* 1998: Augustus St. Gaudens Memorial Foundation, Cornish, NH
* 1999: Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
* 2000: Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Arts, Pasadena, CA
* 2003: Distinguished Alumna Award, Scripps College, Claremont, CA; Artist in residence, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
* 2004: Received the COLA Grant, Los Angeles, CA
* 2005: Excellence in Design Award by the New York City Art Commission, New York City, New York
* 2012: Fellow of United States Artists.
* 2013: Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York
* City of Los Angeles (C.O.L.A.) Artist Fellowship

## Collections

* Museum of Modern Art, New York
* Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
* Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
* Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

## Publications
* Shepherd, Elizabeth. *Secrets, Dialogues,* *Revelations: The Art of Betye and Alison Saar*. Los Angeles, CA: Wight Art Gallery, University of California, 1990.
* Wilson, Judith. "Down to the Crossroads: The Art of Alison Saar." In *Callaloo* 14 no 1 (Winter 1991): 107–123.
* Krane, Susan. *Art at the Edge, Alison Saar: Fertile Ground*, Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 1993.
* Nooter Roberts, Mary, and Alison Saar. *Body Politics:The Female Image in Luba Art and the Sculpture of Alison Saar*. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2000.
* McGee, Julie L. "Field, Boll, and Monument: Toward an Iconography of Cotton in African American Art." In *International Review of African American Art* 19 no. 1 (2003): 37–48.
* Lewis, Samella S. African American Art and Artists, revised and expanded 3rd ed., Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
* Farrington, Lisa E. "Reinventing Herself: The Black Female Nude." In *Woman's Art Journal* 24 no. 2 (Autumn 2003–Winter 2004): 15–23.
* Dallow, Jessica. "Reclaiming Histories: Betye and Alison Saar, Feminism, and the Representation of Black Womanhood." *Feminist Studies* 30 no. 1 (2004): 75–113.
* Dallow, Jessica. *Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar*. Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in association with University of Washington Press, 2005.
* Jones, Leisha. "Women and Abjection: Margins of Difference, Bodies of Art." *Visual Culture & Gender* 2 (2007): 62–71.
* Linton, Meg. *Alison Saar: STILL ...*. Los Angeles, CA: Otis College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2012.
* Dallow, Jessica. "Departures and Returns: Figuring the Mother's Body in the Art of Betye and Alison Saar." *Reconciling Art and Mothering, edited by Rachel Epp Buller*. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012.

## Lihimi m-pahi

* ** (2010), Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon

## Kundivihira

## External links
* L.A. Louver Gallery
* New York Foundation for the Arts: Interview with Alison Saar
* 2009 Half-Hour TV Interview on The Creative Community
* KCRW Art Talk with Edward Goldman , "The Painful Beauty of Alison Saar's Stories," 2012
* Artists - Alison Saar at Phyllis Kind Gallery (NYC) web site