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

This exhibition explores the pivotal role of costume design in Betye Saar's early career and throughout her life, presenting over 200 objects including designs, photographs, garments, and jewelry. It brings together newly discovered photographs documenting early productions at the Inner City Cultural Center alongside Saar's original sketches for these performances. The exhibition offers a fresh understanding of the artist's design work as an essential component of her interconnected and evolving practice, celebrating her 100th birthday with a rich historical narrative and curatorial depth. It emphasizes the artist's meticulous record-keeping and how her work in assemblage was profoundly informed by this period of her life.