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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Gail Shaw-Clemons
An Internationally renowned printmaker and mixed media artist, Gail Shaw-Clemons, was born in Washington, DC. With an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Maryland specializing in stone lithography, she studied under Thaddeus Lapinski, Martin Puryear, and David Driskell.
While teaching art for 24 years at the United Nations International School in New York, she had the opportunity to travel internationally representing her job and her work. She spent many summers away at international residencies making art. She exhibited extensively and her work is in collections as far away as Be Jing, China, Brazil, and Sweden. She is also represented in collections at the Library of Congress, Ballenglen Museum of Ireland, Banneker Douglass Museum in Annapolis, Maryland and the DC Commission on the arts and humanities.
After retiring in 2014 she moved back to DC where she now resides. Shaw-Clemons is currently an adjunct professor at Bowie State University.
Bowie State University