Dorothy Moss, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and coordinating Curator of the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative. Leslie Ureña, Curator of Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
"""Kinship. . . asks a critical question: What is kinship in the United States today, and how is it evolving? . . . Throughout, the book communicates a sense of kinship as meaning more than blood, but the subjects in focus are largely blood relations. The word 'kin' indeed comes from a Proto-Indo-European word meaning 'to give birth to, ' and the artists grapple with the tensions therein, where perhaps the expectations of genetic kinship heighten family tensions and dysfunction over the course of decades.""-- ""Hyperallergic"""