The South Side Community Art Center presents 9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives which will run through Dec. 17.

The 9 Artists/ 9 Months/ 9 Perspectives is an exhibition by the nine Dandelion Black Women Artists presenting their collaborative artworks.

"Their responses, perspectives, and reflections were inspired by the continuous struggle for health, social, and economic welfare of marginalized people during COVID-19, the lack of response from the federal government, and the political allyship of socio-political grassroots movements like Black Lives Matter, according to Southside Community Art Center. "Craft-making became a transgressive act through artivism, perspective, and vision."

The artists featured in the exhibition are Adjoa J. Burrowes, Julee Dickerson-Thompson, Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter, Michele Godwin, Francine Haskins, Pamela Harris Lawton, Gloria Patton, Gail Shaw-Clemons, and Kamala Subramanian.

The artists utilized book-making, craft-making, and works on paper to demonstrate a "vision under hardship felt worldwide, collectively allowing us to reckon with our own perspectives, reflections and welfare."

The crafts of the Dandelion Black Women Artists adopt Black feminism as theorized by several artists and art historians such as Freida High Wasikhongo Tsesfagiorgis. Their works illustrate that the Black woman is a "1) subject rather than an object; 2) the exclusive or primary subject; 3) active rather than passive; 4) sensitive to the self-recorded realities of Black women; 5) imbued with the aesthetics of the African continuum—sustaining a personal vision that embraces Afrocentric tastes in color, texture, and rhythm."