Selected Updates: the Guide to Black Art Exhibitions in 2010
Black Art Project
George-McKinley Martin
P. O. Box 8515
Silver Spring, Maryland 20907
ALEXANDRIA
Alexandria Black History Museum
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
February 4 - March 13, 2010
"Explore the history of coiled basketry in Africa and America with this traveling exhibition from the Museum for African Art. Grass Roots trace the evolution of an ancient art while examining rice-growing societies which, through the trans-Atlantic slave trade, exported their cultures to America. The exhibition features baskets from the Lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia as well as from diverse regions of Africa, and artifacts, such as basket-making tools and rice cultivation relics."
902 Wythe Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
703/ 746-4356
ATLANTA
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
An American Consciousness: Robin Holder's Mid-Career Retrospective
On view through May 15, 2010
"An American Consciousness: Robin Holder's Mid-Career Retrospective is an in-depth examination of Holder's three decades as a printmaker. Holder, a New York-based artist and educator, is a storyteller whose work fuses autobiographical, historic, and global issues. Working in series, she addresses diverse themes that include immigration, racism, jazz, the Holocaust, and child labor. Through her work Holder unites aesthetics with sociopolitical ideas, connects personal and universal experiences, and reflects on nature and spirituality. Her self-reflective images are meditations on identity, women's empowerment, and social realities. The exhibition will feature sixty-five works."
The exhibition is curated by Dorit Yaron, the David C. Driskell Center's Deputy Director.
A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
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Spelman College
350 Spelman Lane, SW
Atlanta, Georgia 30314
404/ 270-5607
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Robin Holder, Aspiration, 1986, Linoleum print with stencils
BALTIMORE
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture
From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden
On view through March 28, 2010
"This exhibition presents a major survey of the extensive graphic works created by Romare Bearden over more than 30 years. The works in From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden show Bearden's extraordinary facility for weaving into every art form a rich tapestry of literary, biblical, mythological, popular culture and western and non-western themes that were informed by his African American cultural experiences. Included are prints based on collages like the Odysseus Series and Piano Lesson that he reworked in several media through changes in technique, scale and color and through the use of photographic processes. Also included are two important photoengraving series, The Train and The Family and the extraordinary limited edition 12 Trains."
A catalogue accompanies this exhibition. 830 East Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
443/ 263-1800
www.africanamericanculture.org
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BIRMINGHAM
Birmingham Museum of Art
African-American Art Gallery
P. H. Polk Photographs
On view through May 23, 2010
"This exhibition explores various aspects of Prentice Herman (P.H.) Polk's work. Polk (1898-1984), a Bessemer native, became one of the most important photographers of the 20th century through his role as the official photographer of the Tuskegee Institute from 1939-1984. Polk became the leading chronicler of campus life, capturing scenes of social, historical, and artistic significance and recording for posterity images of George Washington Carver, the Tuskegee Airmen, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joe Louis, Paul Robeson, and many other prominent individuals."
Amalia K. Amaki, Professor of Art History, University of Alabama, and Curator of the Paul R. Jones Collection, serves as the guest curator for this exhibition. 2000 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd.
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
205/ 254-2565
www.artsbma.org
BROOKLYN
Corridor Gallery
Black Artists as Activist
January 31 - March 28, 2010
"Black Artists as Activist will celebrate the work of 10 emerging and established artists from the African Diaspora whose work addresses the theme of artists as transformative agents in their lives and the world." 334 Grand Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11238
860/ 838-4233
www.corridorgallerybrooklyn.org
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA)
The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks
February 4 - May 16, 2010
This exhibition, guest curated by Dexter Wimberly, will examine how urban planning, imminent domain, and real estate development are affecting Brooklyn's communities and how residents throughout the borough are responding. The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks will include the works of several Brooklyn-based artists, as well as those who have been forced to relocate as a result of gentrification. In addition to works of art featured at MoCADA, there will be a schedule of public programs taking place throughout Brooklyn.
80 Hanson Place
Brooklyn, New York 11217
718-230-0492
http://www.mocada.org/
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CHARLOTTE
Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art and Culture
Main Gallery
The John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African-American Art
On view through January 2, 2011
"The Hewitt Collection of African-American Art consists of works by renowned artists including Romare Bearden, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Elizabeth Catlett, Jonathan Green, Jacob Lawrence, Ann Tanksley, and Hale Woodruff. Bank of America acquired the Hewitt Collection in 1998 from John and Vivian Hewitt, and pledged it as a cornerstone of the Gantt Center's permanent collection.
For 10 years the Hewitt collection has toured the United States. The Gantt Center is very pleased to serve as its home."
551 South Tryon Street
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
704/ 547-3700
http://www.ganttcenter.org/
Mint Museum of Art
Belk, Dwelle, and Jones Galleries
Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color
On view through February 27, 2010
"Examining the prolific career of Loïs Mailou Jones, spanning nearly 75 years, this exhibition presents approximately 70 works from private collections and from the artist's estate.
The exhibition provides a survey the many styles of Jones' 75 years as a painter stretching from late Postimpressionism to a contemporary synthesis of African, Caribbean, American and African-American images, design and themes. Jones, as a noted educator, taught painting and related subjects at Howard University for 47 years."
2730 Randolph Road
Charlotte, North Carolina 28207
704/ 337-2000
www.mintmuseum.org
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Löis Mailou Jones, Jennie,
1943 oil on canvas.
On loan from the Howard
University Gallery of Art.
CHEVY CHASE
Friendship Heights Village Center
Our Common Journey
February 7 - 28, 2010
A celebration of life, featuring the following artists: Anne S. Bouie, John Beckley, Daniel T. Brooking, Bernard W. Brooks, Gwendolyn Aqui-Brooks, James Brown, Jr., Desiree Darden, Henry Elliott, Jenne Glover, T. H. Gomillion, Francine Haskins, Gloria C. Kirk, Jacqueline Lee, and Samuel Mercer.
4433 South Park Avenue
Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815
301/ 656-2797
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CHICAGO
Museum of Science and Industry
Balcony of the Museum's West Pavilion
Black Creativity 2010: Juried Art Exhibition
On view through February 28, 2010
"The Museum of Science and Industry's annual Black Creativity 2010 features more than 100 original works of art from both professional and amateur African-American artists from around the country. First place and $3,000 was awarded to James Pate of Dayton, Ohio for his oil painting, ‘Turn of Endearment.' The works on display were selected from more than 350- entries.
The Museum's juried art exhibition is one of the longest-running exhibitions of African-American art in the United States. It started in 1970 as "Black Esthetics" and was the impetus behind the Museum's annual Black Creativity celebration." 57th and Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60637
773/ 684-1414
http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/black-creativity-2010
CINCINATTI
Cincinnati Art Museum Martin Puryear Prints
January 30 - May 2, 2010
"The acclaimed sculptor, Martin Puryear, has another side; he is a great printmaker. This exhibit surveys a decade of Puryear's printmaking. Often referencing his areas of personal interest, Puryear's prints are inspired by furniture design, basketry and international travel. Martin Puryear Prints reveals Puryear's exploration of printmaking to capture his three-dimensional ideas."
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
513/ 639-2995
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org
Cincinnati Art Museum Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
February 20 - May 2, 2010
"Confront the dark subversive imagery of Kara walker and experience Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated). A volatile juxtaposition of history and technology, Kara Walker...masterfully presents a combination of traditional imagery charged with racial iconography. The exhibition consists of fifteen large scale images that begin as enlargements of the woodcut illustrations featured in Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War. Walker then overlays these enlargements with solid black screen prints. The historical scenes are interrupted with black imagery and force the viewer to internalize the conflict and suffering on both sides of the civil war."
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
513/ 639-2995
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org
CLEVELAND
The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University
Gallery C
Physical Graffitti
On view through February 13, 2010
"Physical Graffitti features new mixed media collage paintings by Kushmere Bell, one of the artists in last year's celebrated exhibition at Cleveland State University: Each in Their Own Voice, African American Artists in Cleveland 1970 to 2005."
The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University
2307 Chester Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
216/ 687-2103
http://www.csuohio.edu/artgallery/
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Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
William D. Ginn Gallery and Dr. Gerald and Phyllis Seltzer Rotunda Gallery
Iona Rozeal Brown: All Falls Down
January 29 - May 9, 2010
"This exhibition features recent and newly commissioned work by Washington D.C.-based artist, Iona Rozeal Brown, who examines the globalization and appropriation of hip-hop culture in vibrant large-scale acrylic paintings. Sparked by her interest in ganguro, a trend in the late 1990's among Japanese teenagers (mostly girls) who were infatuated with looking like African-American hip-hop stars, brown integrates hip-hop's stylistic motifs into the compositional framework of Japan's most illustrious modern artistic tradition: ukiyo-e printmaking.
Connecting hip-hop's material culture to the opulent ukiyo-e world of geishas, samurais, and Kabuki actors, Brown reveals the malleable, polymorphic nature of history, culture, and identity."
8501 Carnegie Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216/ 421-8671
http://www.mocacleveland.org
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Marjorie Talalay, Peter B. Lewis, and Video Galleries
From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African-American Art
On view through May 23, 2010
"Unprecedented in the region, the exhibition brings together for the first time the rich holdings of contemporary African American art drawn from preeminent collections of contemporary art in the region - the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, the Akron Art Museum, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Progressive Corporation, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Presented will be works by some of the most important artists of our time in a range of media - works on paper, painting, sculpture, and installations.
The exhibition features 25 artists, and begins with signature pieces by such pioneering figures of the 1970s and 1980s as Romare Bearden or Alma Thomas, and continues up to the present with prime examples of works by artists such as Lenardo Drew, Alison Saar, Willie Cole, David Hammons, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, René Green, Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley, among others." 8501 Carnegie Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44106
216/ 421-8671
http://www.mocacleveland.org
Kehinde Wiley, Passing/Posing, 2003, Acrylic on paper, 72 X 65 X 3 in. Collection of the Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio
College Park
The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora
Her Story: Margo Humphrey, Lithographs and Works on Paper
On view through March 12, 2010
Co-curated by Dr. Robert E. Steele, the David C. Driskell Center's Executive Director, and Dr. Adrienne Childs, Curator
1214 Cole Student Activity Building
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland 20742
301/ 314-2615
www.driskellcenter.umd.edu/
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COLUMBIA
Columbia Museum of Art
The Chemistry of Color: Contemporary African-American Artists
February 05 - May 09, 2010
"The Columbia Museum of Art celebrates its 60th anniversary year by hosting a major exhibition of art by contemporary African-American artists. The Chemistry of Color: Contemporary African-American Artists chronicle the accomplishments and struggles of African-American artists in the latter half of the 20th century with approximately 72 works by a number of preeminent modern artists.
The Columbia Museum of Art has a long history of presenting exhibitions featuring African-American art and African cultural heritage - more than 37 years and more than 25 exhibitions, beginning in 1972.
In conjunction with the Columbia Museum of Art's Year of American Art and The Chemistry of Color, the Museum presents an installation from its own collection, Color Vision: African-American Masters from the Collection, which opens Wednesday, February 17 and runs through May 30."
A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
1515 Main Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29202
803/ 799-2810
www.columbiamuseum.org
EATONVILLE
Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts (The Hurston) Zora Neale Hurston: The Legacy of Inspired Reality On view through August 27, 2010
"This distinctive exhibit features the works of numerous artists (Deborah Willis, Carrie Mae Weems, Lonnie Graham, Whitfield Lovell, Fred Wilson, Betye Saar, Hank Willis, and Therman Statom) inspired by Hurston's work. Zora Neale Hurston: The Legacy of Inspired Reality features two- and three-dimensional works, representing photography, installation art, and mixed media." 227 East Kennedy Boulevard
Eatonville, Florida 32751
407/ 647-3307
www.zoranealehurstonmuseum.com/
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EVANSTON
Dittmar Memorial Gallery
Norris University Center
AfriCOBRA and the Chicago Black Arts Movement
February 12 - March 13, 2010
"In 1968, a group of African American artists in Chicago gathered to imagine and discuss the development of a vibrant dynamic Black visual art that would capture the beauty, value, and significance of critical dimensions of African descended culture. They named themselves AfriCOBRA (an African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists.) They shared a belief in the importance of visual expression as a means of conveying positive elements of black experiences that shaped identities and strengthen communities."
Northwestern University
1999 Campus Drive
Evanston, Illinois 60208
847/ 491-2348
http://www.norris.northwestern.edu/ dittmar.php
FLINT
Flint Institute of Arts
Mary Lee Bendolph,
Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond
Hodge & Temporary Exhibition Galleries
On view through April 18, 2010
"Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond highlights one of Gee's Bend's most original artists, Mary Lee Bendolph, and also explores the work of three of Bendolph's close relatives, her mother, Aolar Mosely, her daughter, Essie B. Pettway, and her daughter-in-law, Louisiana P. Bendolph.
In addition to the quilts included in the exhibition, are works by two contemporary Alabama-based artists who have been inspired by the quilts of Gee's Bend, Thorton Dial and Lonnie Holley. The self-taught Dial and Holley explore the African American experience through their assemblage sculptures, which are created from commonplace found objects and found materials, such as furniture, cloth, carpet, and paint."
1120 East Kearsley Street
Flint, Michigan 48503-1915
810/ 234-1695
www.flintarts.org
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Mary Lee Bendolph
American
Strips and Strings
cotton and cotton blends, 2003
74 x 49 inches
Courtesy of Tinwood Alliance
GREENSBORO
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Existed: Leonardo Drew
February 06 - May 09, 2010
"This major mid-career survey exhibition, Existed: Leonardo Drew, includes fourteen large-scale works realized between 1991 and 2006, including the installation, ‘Number 123' (2006), which is specially adapted by the artist for the Weatherspoon's atrium, along with eight works on paper made between 2005 and 2008.
Throughout his career, Drew has been continuously engaged with the cyclical nature of existence. Made to resemble the detritus of everyday life, his formally abstract but emotionally charged compositions have an aesthetic authority and metaphorical weight that are unique, transcending time and place in a celebration of things eternal. These works range from the intense drama of his sculptures and installations of the 1980s, to the epic sweep of his massive wall-bound tableaux of the 1990s, to the ethereal language of his paper casts of the early 2000s."
A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
University of North Carolina Greensboro Corner of Spring Garden and Tate Streets
Greensboro, North Carolina 27402
336/ 334-5770
www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu/
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HAMPTON
Hampton University Museum The City of Hampton: Through the Lens of Reuben V. Burrell and James Van Der Zee
February 28 - November 27, 2010
"Reuben V. Burrell has documented through photographs a half of a century of Hampton University events - both big and small. Not only is Mr. Burrell the Griot (historian) of the University but his lens goes beyond the campus into the surrounding community. Hired at Hampton in December 1949, Mr. Burrell began his career as the school photographer. For more than sixty years, he has provided an invaluable service to the university documenting its history as well as reprinting historic photographs. He has also documented landmarks, businesses, social and civic activities in the city of Hampton.
James Van Der Zee is recognized as the dean of African American photographers based on his large body of photographs taken in Harlem, New York during more than half of the 19th century. In 1906 Van Der Zee left his hometown of Lenox, Massachusetts where he met and married Kate L. Brown, a seamstress from Newport News, Virginia. The couple's first child, Rachel, was born in 1907 and shortly afterward they traveled to Virginia. The Van Der Zee's decided to remain in Tidewater, Virginia where Van Der Zee found employment as a waiter at the Hotel Chamberlin. The photographs will share images of two categories: the everyday activities of Slabtown residents and the academic community at Whittier Preparatory School."
Huntington Building
Hampton, Virginia 23668
757/727-5308
www.hamptonu.edu/museum
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HARTFORD
The Amistad Center for Art and Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Digging Deeper
On view through April 4, 2010
"Digging Deeper is a rare and exciting collaborative project that engages artists Willie Cole, and Hank Willis Thomas, in the exploration of The Amistad Center's important culturally specific collection and the Wadsworth Atheneum's renowned and diverse collections to produce an exhibition, including new works that will enlighten and entertain our public community. The exhibition will juxtapose collection materials and Cole's and Willis Thomas' original works to challenge viewers to think about contemporary art in an historical context, traditional art in a contemporary context, and the capacity of multiple generations and forms of art to document, comment on, and sometimes change history."
600 Main Street
Hartford, Connecticut 06103-2990
860/ 838-4233
www.amistadartandculture.org
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LANCASTER
The Phillips Museum of Art
Dana & Rothman Galleries, Steinman College Center
AP-PRAISED: Solo Exhibition of Works by William Hutson and Selected Works From His Personal Collection
On view through February 28, 2010
"An exhibition of selected works by William R. Hutson as well as selected works by: Frank Bowling, Nanette Carter, Juan Cash, Edward Clark, Gregory Coates, Ed Colston, Adrienne Hoard, Alvin Loving, Melvin Edwards, James Little, Sam Middleton, Larry Potter, Shirley Stark, William T. Williams, and others.
The exhibition will offer a glimpse of the recently acquired life work of Mr. Hutson, and will include pieces from his personal collection of artwork by distinguished African American Abstractionists, memorabilia and ephemera from the 1960's through the end of the 20th Century."
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
717/ 291-3879
www.fandm.edu/exhibitions
LAUREL
Montpelier Arts Center
Marcella Morgese, Library Gallery
Culture of the Mind and Spirit: An Exhibition of Regional African American Artists
February 5 - March 26, 2010
"The exhibition features the works of a diverse group of artists with a common heritage and profound links to Montpelier Arts Center. Artists with works on exhibit include: John Beckley, Jacqueline Lee, Alonzo Davis, Henry Elliott, Clarence Page, Kenneth Shepherd, Thomas Gomillion, Cheryl Dyer, Angela Mathis, Roland Richardson, and Rushern Baker, IV."
9652 Muirkirk Road
Laurel, Maryland 20708
301/ 377-7800; 410-792-0664
http://www.pgparks.com/
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LOS ANGELES
California African American Museum
After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
On view through March 7, 2010
"After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy illuminates how the events and actions of 1968 ignited progressive social change and helped to initiate political policies that radically reshaped American culture. This exhibition features recent and newly commissioned works by a group of young, emerging artists and collectives, all born in or after 1968. They include Deborah Grant, Adam Pendleton, Jefferson Pinder, Nadine Robinson, Leslie Hewitt, Otabenga Jones and Associates, and Hank Willis Thomas."
600 State Drive
Exposition Park
Los Angeles, California 90037
213/ 744-7432
www.caamuseum.org
California African American Museum
An Idea Called Tomorrow-1
On view through March 7, 2010
"This exhibition was co-conceived by the California African American Museum (CAAM) and the Skirball Cultural Center as one exhibit split between each institution. An Idea Called Tomorrow is intended to inspire visitors to reflect upon the active role we must all play in bringing about a more just, equitable, and peaceful future. On view at CAAM is An Idea Called Tomorrow-1 showcasing works by fifteen contemporary artists imaging what a civil future looks like. An Idea Called Tomorrow-2 is featured at the Skirball Cultural Center... http://www.skirball.org/."
600 State Drive
Exposition Park
Los Angeles, California 90037
213/ 744-7432
www.caamuseum.org
California African American Museum
Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts
January 28 - June 6, 2010
"In 1969, writing about Dance Theatre of Harlem, Clive Barnes, dance critic for The New York Times, began his article, ‘Black is beautiful, classic ballet is beautiful, so why are the two so rarely found together?' That changed when Arthur Mitchell, accomplished artistic director, astute educator, talented choreographer and extraordinary dancer, co-founded Dance Theatre of Harlem with his mentor,Karel Shook. Inspired by the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Arthur Mitchell wanted to make a difference; by doing what he knew best, which was the focus and discipline of dance. He brought the art form of ballet to Harlem."
For more information and a sampling of works, see: http://www.caamuseum.org/fe.htm
600 State Drive
Exposition Park
Los Angeles, California 90037
213/ 744-7432
www.caamuseum.org
Skirball Cultural Center
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956 - 1968
On view through March 7, 2010
"Organized by the High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Road to Freedom features nearly 170 unforgettable images by more than thirty-five photographers and tracks a crucial episode in American social and political history. Poignant and deeply affecting, the photographs in this exhibition portray historical turning points such as the Montgomery bus boycott (1956), the Freedom Rides to the Deep South (1961), the March on Washington (1963), the Selma-to-Montgomery March (1965), the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968), and the Poor People's Campaign (1968). Some of the photographs have never been displayed to the public."
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90049
310/ 440-4500
http://www.skirball.org/
Skirball Cultural Center
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge On view now through April 11, 2010
"Breach of Peace, a companion to the exhibition Road to Freedom, displays forty contemporary portraits by photographer Eric Etheridge of Freedom Riders, who, in 1961, converged on Jackson, Mississippi to challenge state segregation laws. Their noble efforts were met with fierce hostility, and many of the young men and women were arrested and convicted of the charge ‘breach of the peace.'
Breach of Peace displays Etheridge's photographs of several Freedom Riders, now senior citizens, alongside their original mug shots. The exhibition examines their involvement in the Civil Rights movement, takes a look at who they are today, and shares their unique perspectives on that historical period. The exhibit encompasses related historical objects, including student activist buttons and newspaper clippings."
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90049
310/ 440-4500
http://www.skirball.org/
Helen Singleton, Los Angeles, CA © 2005 Eric Etheridge
Helen Singleton, July 30, 1961 Archive of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
LOUISVILLE
Gallery at Actors
Actors Theatre of Louisville
16th Annual African American Art Exhibition
On view through February 21, 2010
"The 16th Annual African American Art Exhibition will run concurrent with the theatrical production of Ella, a musical tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. The exhibition is not theme-specific. The annual exhibition has become a popular highlight of the region's visual arts season."
316 West Main Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40202-4218
502/ 584-1265
www.actorstheatre.org/visit_gallery.htm
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MOBILE
Mobile Museum of Art
Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection
On view through April 18, 2010
Successions: Prints by African-American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection will feature 62 works of traditional and non-traditional printmaking techniques such as etching, monoprint, lithography, linocut and silkscreen by 45 artists including Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, David Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Margo Humphrey, Jacob Lawrence, Stephanie Pogue, Faith Ringgold, Lou Stovall, William T. Williams and James L. Wells.
4850 Museum Drive
Mobile, Alabama 36608
251/ 208-5200
www.mobilemuseumofart.com
MONTCLAIR
Montclair Art Museum
A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund
February 07 - July 25, 2010
"A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund is the first exhibition to explore the legacy of the Julius Rosenwald Fund created by the Chicago businessman and philanthropist to foster black leadership through the arts, literature, and scholarship. From 1928 to 1948, the Fund awarded stipends to hundreds of prominent and emerging African Americans artists, writers, and scholars across such disciplines as history, sociology, literature, and the visual and performing arts.
A Force for Change presents more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-two Rosenwald fellows, as well as a short documentary film."
The exhibition will be complemented by an installation of approximately 20 works by African American artists from the Montclair Art Museum's permanent collection.
A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
3 South Mountain Avenue
Montclair, New Jersey 07042
973/ 746-5555
www.montclairartmuseum.org
NEWARK
University Museums
University of Delaware
Mechanical Hall Gallery
Abstract Relations
February 10 - June 06, 2010
"Abstract Relations, a collaboration of the David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland and the University of Delaware Museums, examines traditions and methods of abstraction in African American art. Artists represented include Alma Thomas, Norman Lewis, Sam Gilliam, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, William T. Williams, Al Loving, E.J. Montgomery and David Driskell.
This exhibit highlights recent gifts from the widow of artist and conservator Felrath Hines (1913-1993) to the University Museums and the David C. Driskell Center." University Museums
Mechanical Hall (MEH)
near the intersection of East Main Street and North College Avenue
Newark, Delaware
302-831-8037
http://www.udel.edu/museums/
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Felrath Hines, Sentinel II, 1983. Oil on linen, 48 x 46 in. University Museums, University of Delaware. Gift of Dorothy C. Fisher, Wife of the Artist. © Felrath Hines Estate.
NEW YORK
The Studio Museum in Harlem
30 Seconds off an Inch
On view through March 14, 2010
"This survey exhibition brings together approximately one hundred works by dozens of artists who, having absorbed the lessons of U.S.-based Conceptual art and identity politics, imbue their respective practices with a critical sense of play and irreverence adopted from Fluxus, Arte Povera, Gutai and Neoconcretism, among other international movements. 30 Seconds takes the singular practices and conceptual methods of black artists active on the West Coast in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a starting point-work that inspired a bodily engagement in conceptual practice."
A catalogue accompanies this exhibition. 144 West 125th Street
New York, New York 10027
212/ 864-4500
www.studiomuseum.org
Jabu Arnell, Disco Ball 2, 2009, Courtesy of artist
The Studio Museum in Harlem
A Delicate Touch: Watercolors from the Permanent Collection
On view through March 14, 2010
"The Studio Museum continues to explore and engage its permanent collection with the exhibition A Delicate Touch: Watercolors from the Permanent Collection. Presenting eighteen works on paper, A Delicate Touch brings together works dating from the late 1940s to 2007 that share the same medium.
The exhibition was organized by Curatorial Assistant Lauren Haynes, and includes the following artists: John Bankston, Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, John Dowell, Sam Gilliam, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu,
Otobong Nkanga, Chris Ofili, and Richard Yarde."
144 West 125th Street
New York, New York 10027
212/ 864-4500
www.studiomuseum.org
Romare Bearden
Untitled (Classical Series), c. 1948
The Studio Museum in Harlem; museum
purchase and a gift from E.Thomas and Audlyn
Higgins Williams 97.9.6
TOPEKA
Mulvane Art Museum
Color in Freedom: Journey Along the Underground Railroad
February 6 - April 3, 2010
Color in Freedom: Journey Along the Underground Railroad features "paintings, etchings & drawings by Joseph Holston that were created to capture the essence of the courage & determination required to escape and to enhance understanding of the condition of slavery and the powerful instinct toward freedom." Washburn University
17th and Jewell
Topeka, Kansas 66621
785/ 670-1124
http://www.washburn.edu/mulvane/ exhibits.html
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TOWSON
Center for the Arts Gallery A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art February 12 - April 17, 2010
"This exhibition presents the work of 16 artists of diverse backgrounds who address aspects of identity, including nationality, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Media includes sculpture, painting, prints, fibers, and photography. The exhibition includes such artists as Sonya Clark, Zöe Charlton, Philemona Williamson, and others." Towson State University
8000 York Road
Towson, Maryland 21252
410/ 704-2787
http://www.towson.edu/ artscalendar/Arts.asp
WASHINGTON, DC
District of Columbia Public Library
Great Hall
Re-Enslavement Revisted: An Exhibition of the Art of Terry Dixon and Robert Morris
February 1 - 28, 2010
"Re-Enslavement Revisited will feature celebrated artists Terry Dixon and Robert Morris. Their visual interpretation of re-enslavement was inspired by Douglas Blackmon's 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning non-fiction book, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of African Americans from the Civil War to World War II. The exhibit is designed to highlight the role of major corporations and local government in denying southern blacks their civil rights through the power of judicial and local governments." Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library 901 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
202/ 727-1222
www.dclibrary.org
Artist:Terry Dixon, Title: Accusation / Diptych
Medium: Mixed Media, Size: 24"x24"
International Visions-The Gallery
Michael Platt
February 3 - March 13, 2010
2629 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
202/ 234-5112
www.inter-visions.com
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Parish Gallery-Georgetown
Margaret Burroughs: Collage, Linocut
February 5 - 28, 2010
1054 31st Street, NW
Canal Square
Washington, DC 20007
202/ 944-2310
http://www.parishgallery.com/
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Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
The African Presence in México:
From Yanga to the Present
On view through July 4, 2010
"The African Presence in México: From
Yanga to the Present examines the history,
culture, and art of Afro-Mexicans, and begins
in the colonial era and continues to the present day. Highlights of the exhibition include discussions of African slavery in Mexico and the hero/slave rebel Yanga; artifacts related to the traditions and popular culture of Afro-Mexicans; and paintings, masks, photography, and other works of art.
This exhibition is accompanied by Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, and Recognition that charts the history of the relationship between Mexicans and African Americans in the United States as well as the relationship between African Americans and the country of Mexico. These exhibitions were organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago."
http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/ af/africanpresence.html
1901 Fort Place, SE
Washington, DC 20020
202/ 633-4820
www.anacostia.si.edu
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WINSTON-SALEM
Diggs Gallery
Young Americans
On view through March 06, 2010
"Young Americans is a dynamic new series of photographs by photographer Sheila Pree Bright in which she explores the identities of young people and their relationship to the United States in an unusual manner. Each participant was aged 18 to 25 and posed with an American Flag.
Pree Bright began working on the Young American series in the fall of 2006. She invited the subjects of the photographs to choose their own clothing, poses and interactions with the American flag. The result is a mix of emotions that these young people were able to express." Diggs Gallery/lower level, O'Kelly Library
Winston-Salem State University
601 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27110
336/ 750-2458
http://www.wssu.edu/wssu
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Phillip Osborne II, 2007, Sheila Pree Bright, Chromogenic print, 40" x 30"
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Black Art Project
George-McKinley Martin
P. O. Box 8515
Silver Spring, Maryland 20907
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January 2010