November 4, 2023–May 24, 2024. Minnesota Museum of American Art

Hazel Belvo is a significant American artist, art educator and feminist leader. This series of exquisite artworks, representing couples in positions of intimacy, tenderness, and reciprocity, began in 1967 as a counter to the dry and shame-inducing sex education her son was receiving in school and continued until 1982. The Love Drawings are about so much more than intimacy and pleasure, although these are important themes. They are exquisite representations of loving connections, tenderness, and reciprocity—a call for love and respect instead of war and violence, dignity and joy instead of shame and insensitivity.  

Learn more at mmaa.org/hazel-belvo-for-love