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Reverend Joyce McDonald

She // Her // Hers

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Brooklyn, New York

Joyce, a Black woman with her hair styled in long braids, has pulled down a green face mask to smile joyfully at the camera. She is wearing a white and green floral shirt.

Reverend Joyce McDonald is a multidisciplinary artist, minister, and activist. Her revelatory art has much in common with that of Sister Gertrude Morgan and Sister Mary Corita Kent, who also fuse experience with strength, hope, and power. McDonald creates her art using humble materials—clay, dirt, tinfoil, Wite-Out, fake eyelashes, staples—to enshrine her life stories and experiences of family, love, loss, healing, and transformation. Through her art and ministry, McDonald shares her contagious joy and love using scriptures, sculptures, painting, poetry, and song to help people find healing. As a teenager, she performed with a girl group at the Apollo Theater.

Donor -Disability Futures is supported by Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 08.20.2024