Little Moorish Priestess in Blue 2020
Little Moorish Priestess in Blue is on display at the Colored Girls Museum in Historic Germantown Philadelphia
acrylic and wax print fabric on canvas
40x50 in
Read the Article in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Little Moorish Priestess in Blue by Misty Sol
This mixed media and acrylic painting was commissioned by the Colored Girls Museum in Philadelphia in 2019 and completed in 2020 for the traveling group show “The First Time Ever I saw your Face”
The painting is a response of the adultification and subsequent oppression of and divestment from the wellbeing of Black girls. Our collective goal with the show is in alignment with the CGM’s mission to provide “protection, praise, and grace” for Black Girls. The large portraits are meant to lift our girls into an exalted space where they have to be looked up to, paid attention to, acknowledged, and admired.
“Little Blue” is a part of a traveling exhibition with stops including: The Colored Girls Museum, Slought Gallery, Philadelphia International Airport, Historic Mother Bethel Church in Philadelphia…
Little Moorish Priestess in Blue detail 1
detail 3
Young museum visitor pointing to his favorite portrait!
artist Misty Sol and daughter/muse Ayah at the Colored Girls Museum.
