ARTFORUM
Art is Medicine
By Helen Molesworth on Simone Leigh
United Order of Tents.
- When: Founded in 1867
- Who: By former slave Annetta Lane and Harriet Taylor
- What: Secret society of black women whose focus was nursing
- Significance: Oldest continually existing sorority of black women in the United States.
- Services: Securing mortgages, Building houses for the elderly, ensure proper burial services for the dead
Comment: Isn’t it absurd how these organizations need to be secret. In the underground
The waiting Room, 2016
- What: Installation/ social- practice project
- Who: Simone Leigh, Black women
- Where: presented at the New Museum in New York
- What: Green’s case, a black women who sat in the emergency-room waiting area at King County Hospital Center for twenty-four hours and died on the floor
- When: The week when Philando Castile and Alton Sterling were murdered by the police
