We’re thrilled to be showing new work by Alison Saar in May 2016. In this new body of work, she’s taken inspiration from Cab Calloway’s 1934 song “ Call of the Jitter Bug.” 

If you’d like to be a jitter bug, first thing you must do is get a jug. Put whiskey, wine and gin within, and shake it all up and then begin. Grab a cup and start to toss, you are drinking jitter sauce! Don’t you worry, you just mug, and then you’ll be a jitter bug!

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IMAGES: Alison Saar, Hooch n’ Hoochie Coochie, 2016, wood, acrylic, ash, tar and wax and found ceramic jug, 25 x 8 x 8 in. (63.5 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm) (artwork featured on left)