Three women speak their minds - exhibit of three African American women artists, Carole Byard, Dori Lemeh and Evelyn Patricia Terry at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin - includes schedule information for the artists' other exhibits

American Visions, April-May, 1994

"I Mind, Eye Mind, I Mind" is the third show at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wis., to invoke the efforts of a trio of artists from different regions and backgrounds. Carole Byard of New York City, Dori Lemeh of State College, Pa., and Evelyn Patricia Terry of Milwaukee interpret the theme of alternative domestic spaces.

Visitors can expect to see and hear found objects, household objects, sound recordings, videos, paintings and sculptures. "The mind becomes the space," says painter Lemeh.

"We're dealing with the mind as an alternative space where we live," adds Byard, who works in three-dimensional forms and with earth.

Terry, who also works in three-dimensional forms using found objects, is more specific: "We're using the mind as something between chaos and calm, clutter and comfort."

While the mental constructs of peace and confusion are showing in Sheboygan through May 29, each artist also has a show in another city. Byard's work appears in "Ancestors Known and Unknown: Boxworks," a traveling group exhibition that interprets the ancestral heritage of 82 women artists of color, scheduled for the Hearst Center for the Arts in Cedar Falls, Iowa, April 6 to May 19. Lemeh has a solo exhibit of acrylics on canvas at Pennsylvania State University's Browsing Gallery in University Park, May 15 to April 30. Terry shows her recent pastels on paper at the M.P. Perinne Gallery in Madison, Wis., April 30 to May 14.