Uyiosa Osayande on Chakaia Booker

Born in 1953 at Newark, New Jersey, Chakaia Booker received her Baccalaureate degree from Rutgers University and then her Masters in Fine Arts from the City College of New York. Over the years, Chakaia Booker has studied a variety of different subjects such as African dance, ceramics, weaving and basketry.
Booker's work is loaded with sentiment of social concern. She made sculptures created from tires which she used to address African American identity. She used black tires to symbolize the stregth of the African American identity while little color differences are used to show the differences in hue of black people. The varying pigments in her art show the range of African American skin tones and their survival in the modern world.

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