BMA to present ‘More Than Conquerors’
Baltimore Fishbowl
by Ed Gunts
Baltimore’s Community Health Workers are the subject of an art installation that the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) will present starting in November, LaToya Ruby Frazier’s installation entitled More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022.
LaToya Ruby Frazier. More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022. 2022. Installation view: LaToya Ruby Frazier, Gladstone Gallery, New York, March 2 – April 15, 2023. Commissioned by Carnegie Museum of Art for the 58th Carnegie International and funded in part by National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship, 2021-22. © LaToya Ruby Frazier, Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery.
Featuring a series of portraits and related narratives mounted on stainless-steel IV poles, the installation documents and celebrates the essential work performed by Baltimore’s Community Health Workers during the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Frazier’s work was commissioned by the Carnegie Museum of Art for the 58th Carnegie International in 2022 in Pittsburgh, where it was installed and won the Carnegie Prize. The Carnegie International is North America’s longest-running international art show. Funded in part by a National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship, More than Conquerors was shown at the Gladstone Gallery in New York from March 2 to April 15, 2023. It is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York through September 7.
The BMA acquired the work in the spring of 2023, with support from the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, and will show it from November 3, 2024 to March 23, 2025. The Baltimore installation marks the first time that it will be on view at the museum and in the city that inspired it.
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