Guide To Black Art Exhibitions in 2010

Guide to Black Art Exhibitions in 2010
Introduction
The Guide to Black Art Exhibitions in 2010 is a comprehensive selection of art exhibitions in the United States of America. This Guide has a twofold purpose. One is to serve as a travel guide directing you to art exhibitions in the U.S.A. If you visit a city listed, take an excursion to the featured venue(s) in that city and enjoy the exhibition(s). If you discover an exhibition that is not included or find errors in this Guide, please send an e-mail to blackartproject@comcast.net. It is recommended that you telephone, e-mail, or visit the venues web site in advance to confirm that the exhibition will be on view when you plan to visit. Its second major purpose is to provide documentation, in one source, of the exhibition history of African American art exhibitions in museums, large commercial galleries, and cultural centers across the country. This documentation does not exist comprehensively in any other source. The Guide is currently produced by George-McKinley Martin of Black Art Project. We hope that the Guide will encourage more people to visit and enjoy exhibitions of African American art. It is hoped that strong support of these exhibitions will encourage more museums to mount exhibitions of the works of African American artists either as a theme or included in other major subject/theme related exhibitions. How to Use This Guide
The Guide is arranged by month. All entries are in alphabetical order by city. Each time an exhibition appears in the Guide, it is given a full entry. The first line of a full entry (left column) includes the museum/gallery site, followed by the name of the exhibition in bold print, the inclusive dates of the exhibition, a brief description of the exhibition. The right column includes additional information -- address, telephone number, web site and/or e-mail addresses when they exist-- to help make your contact or visit easier. When an exhibition continues to subsequent months, there is a full entry under each of those months and it includes the museum/gallery site, the title of the exhibition, its ending date, and a brief description, as well as the appropriate contact information.
January
Atlanta
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art An American Consciousness: Robin Holder's Mid-Career Retrospective January 21 May 15, 2010
An American Consciousness: Robin Holder's Mid-Career Retrospective is an in-depth examination of Holders three decades as a printmaker. Holder, a New Yorkbased 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 selfreflective images are meditations on identity, womens 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.
Spelman College 350 Spelman Lane, SW Atlanta, Georgia 30314 404/ 270-5607 www.spelman.edu/museum museum@spelman.edu
Robin Holder, They Damaged Us More Than Katrina, 2006, Serigraph 46/70
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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 January 16 March 28, 2010 830 East Pratt Street Baltimore, Maryland 21202 443/ 263-1800 www.africanamericanculture.org emailus@maamc.org
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 Beardens 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. John Loring writing in Arts Magazine in 1973 proclaimed The Family as one of the most important prints of the time. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Birmingham
Birmingham Museum of Art African-American Art Gallery P. H. Polk Photographs January 24 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
Charlotte
Harvey B. Gantt Center for AfricanAmerican 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 Centers permanent collection. Dedicated collectors despite their financial limitations (John was a freelance writer and Vivian a librarian), through their 50 years of collecting, the Hewitts became close friends with many of the artists. By the 1970s they were opening their home to showcase the work of Hale Woodruff, Ernest Crichlow, Alvin Hollingsworth, and J. Eugene Grigsby, a cousin of Mrs. Hewitts. 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
2730 Randolph Road
Belk, Dwelle, and Jones Galleries Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color On view through February 27, 2010
Examining the prolific career of Los 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.
Charlotte, North Carolina 28207 704/ 337-2000 www.mintmuseum.org carla.hanzal@mintmuseum.org
Lis Mailou Jones, Jennie, 1943 oil on canvas. On loan from the Howard University Gallery of Art.
Chicago
Museum of Science and Industry Balcony of the Museums West Pavilion Black Creativity 2010: Juried Art Exhibition January 13 February 28, 2010
The Museum of Science and Industrys 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 by a distinguished panel of jurors led by Patric McCoy, co-founder of the Diasporal Rhythms, an organization of avid collectors of African-American art. The Museums juried art exhibition is one of the longest-running exhibitions of AfricanAmerican art in the United States. It started in 1970 as Black Esthetics and was the impetus behind the Museums annual Black Creativity celebration, a program that highlights the
57th and Lake Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois 60637 773/ 684-1414 http://www.msichicago.org/whatshere/exhibits/black-creativity-2010/
contributions of African Americans and encourages deeper interest in black culture and heritage.
Cincinnati
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 Puryears printmaking. Often referencing his areas of personal interest, Puryears prints are inspired by furniture design, basketry and international travel. Martin Puryear Prints reveals Puryears exploration of printmaking to capture his three-dimensional ideas.
953 Eden Park Drive Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 513/ 639-2995 www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org
Cleveland
The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University Gallery C Physical Graffiti January 22 February 13, 2010
Physical Graffiti features new mixed media collage paintings by Kushmere Bell, one of the artists in last years celebrated exhibition at Cleveland State University: Each in Their Own Voice, African American Artists in Cleveland 1970 to 2005. Gallery talk with the artist at 6:00 p.m. on January 22.
The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University 2307 Chester Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114 216/ 687-2103 http://www.csuohio.edu/artgallery/ t.knapp@csuohio.edu
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.
8501 Carnegie Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44106 216/ 421-8671 http://www. mocacleveland.org
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.
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Marjorie Talalay, Peter B. Lewis, and Video Galleries From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African-American Art January 24 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, Ren Green, Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley, among others. Addressing a range of themes and issues, the exhibition presents an overview of the rich cultural heritage voiced by contemporary African-American artists in their examination of history, identity, and memory.
Kehinde Wiley, Passing/Posing, 2003, Acrylic on paper, 72 X 65 X 3 in. Collection of the Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Detroit
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Crowning Glories January 18 - September 2010 315 East Warren Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201 313/ 494-5800 www.maah-detroit.org
This exhibition is a tribute to the beauty, style, and self-expression of black women, Crowning Glories is an historical survey of their hat wearing traditions from 1850 to the present. Featured will be drawings, photographs and a variety of exciting styles of headwear loaned from the collections of local and national hat queens and designers.
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Eatonville
Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts (The Hurston) Zora Neale Hurston: The Legacy of Inspired Reality January 23 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 Hurstons 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/ info@zorafestival.com
Flint
Flint Institute of Arts Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond Hodge & Temporary Exhibition Galleries January 23 April 18, 2010
Mary Lee Bendolph, Gees Bend Quilts, and Beyond highlights one of Gees Bends most original artists, Mary Lee Bendolph, and also explores the work of three of Bendolphs close relatives, her mother, Aolar Mosely, her daughter, Essie B. Pettway, and her daughterin-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 Gees Bend, Thorton Dial and Lonnie Holley. The self-taught Dial and Holley
1120 East Kearsley Street Flint, Michigan 48503-1915 810/ 234-1695 www.flintarts.org info@flintarts.org
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.
Mary Lee Bendolph American Strips and Strings cotton and cotton blends, 2003 74 x 49 inches Courtesy of Tinwood Alliance
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 amistadcenter@wadsworthatheneum.org
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 Cook Distinguished Artist in Residence, 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, Souleymane Keita, Lawrence ComptonKolawole, James Little, Sam Middleton, Padmini Mongia, Iba N' Diaye, Baba Shongo Obadina, Larry Potter, Bob Shigeo, Shirley Stark, William T. Williams. 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
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
600 State Drive Exposition Park Los Angeles, California 90037 213/ 744-7432 www.caamuseum.org
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grant, Adam Pendleton, Jefferson Pinder, Nadine Robinson, Leslie Hewitt, Otabenga Jones and Associates, and Hank Willis Thomas.
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/.
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, cofounded 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
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard
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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 thirtyfive 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. For more information and a sampling of works, see: http://www.skirball.org/index.php?option= com_ccevents&scope=exbt&task= detail&ccmenu=v2hhdcdzie9u&oid=36
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
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90049 310/ 440-4500 http://www.skirball.org/
Helen Singleton, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Eric Etheridge
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buttons and newspaper clippings.
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 January 25 - 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 themespecific. Actors Theatre is a not-for-profit professional regional theatre located in the heart of downtown Louisville, Ky. Over 20,000 theatre and arts patrons view the exhibition, which has become a popular highlight of the regions visual arts season.
316 West Main Street Louisville, Kentucky 40202-4218 502/ 584-1265 www.actorstheatre.org/visit_gallery.htm lhankins@actorstheatre.org
Mobile
Mobile Museum of Art Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection January 23 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,
4850 Museum Drive Mobile, Alabama 36608 251/ 208-5200 www.mobilemuseumofart.com
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Lou Stovall, William T. Williams and James L. Wells.
William T. Williams, Caravan, 1997, lithograph
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. The following artists are included: Adel Abdessemed, Edgar Arceneaux, Jabu Arnell, Sanford Biggers, Kabir Carter, William Cordova, Thierry Fontaine, Charles Gaines, Deborah Grant, Rashawn Griffin,David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Leslie Hewitt, Wayne Hodge, Rashid
144 West 125th Street New York, New York 10027 212/ 864-4500 www.studiomuseum.org
Jabu Arnell, Disco Ball 2, 2009, Courtesy of artist
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Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, Jayson Keeling, Simone Leigh, Glenn Ligon, Dave McKenzie, Nicole Miller, My Barbarian, Kori Newkirk, Chris Ofili, Demetrius Oliver, Karyn Olivier, John Outterbridge, Clifford Owens, Akosua Adoma Owusu, William Pope.L, Michael Queenland, Robin Rhode, Jimmy Robert, Nadine Robinson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith, Soda_Jerk, Kianja Strobert, Stacy Lynn Waddell, and Nari Ward. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
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 artists in this exhibition use the medium in a variety of ways. John Dowell, whose work Delicate Touch (1977) provides the inspiration for the title of the exhibition, uses watercolor to create meditations on jazz. Other midtwentieth-century artists, including Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney and Norman Lewis, chose watercolor for landscapes and nature scenes. Meanwhile, contemporary artists, including John Bankston, Wangechi Mutu and Otobong Nkanga, use the medium to capture forms and figures. 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.
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
Washington, DC
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum The African Presence in Mxico: From Yanga to the Present 1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC 20020 202/ 633-4820 www.anacostia.si.edu
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On view through July 4, 2010

The African Presence in Mxico: 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 AfroMexicans; 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
ACMinfo@si.edu
organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago.

http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/ af/africanpresence.html
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, OKelly 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 diggsinfo@wssu.edu
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Phillip Osborne II, 2007, Sheila Pree Bright, Chromogenic print, 40" x 30"
February
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 transAtlantic 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
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Atlanta
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art An American Consciousness: Robin Holder's Mid-Career Retrospective On view through May 15, 2010
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
830 East Pratt Street Baltimore, Maryland 21202 443/ 263-1800 www.africanamericanculture.org emailus@maamc.org
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Bearden over more than 30 years. The works in From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden show Beardens 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. John Loring writing in Arts Magazine in 1973 proclaimed The Family as one of the most important prints of the time. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Birmingham
Birmingham Museum of Art African-American Art Gallery P. H. Polk Photographs On view through May 23, 2010
2000 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd. Birmingham, Alabama 35203 205/ 254-2565 www. artsbma.org
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Brooklyn
Corridor Gallery Black Artists as Activist On view through March 28, 2010
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 Brooklynbased 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/ info@mocada.org
Charlotte
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
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pledged it as a cornerstone of the Gantt Centers permanent collection. Dedicated collectors despite their financial limitations (John was a freelance writer and Vivian a librarian), through their 50 years of collecting, the Hewitts became close friends with many of the artists. By the 1970s they were opening their home to showcase the work of Hale Woodruff, Ernest Crichlow, Alvin Hollingsworth, and J. Eugene Grigsby, a cousin of Mrs. Hewitts. For 10 years the Hewitt collection has toured the United States. The Gantt Center is very pleased to serve as its home.
Harvey B. Gantt Center for AfricanAmerican Art and Culture Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell February 12, 2010 Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell highlights for the first time the prints of the renowned Distinguished University of Maryland Professor Emeritus of Art, David C. Driskell, an Artist, Art Historian, Collector, Curator, Educator, and one of the most recognized and respected names in the world of African American art and culture. This exhibition includes more than seventy-five prints by Driskell as well as several works on paper which will provide insight into Driskell's artistic process and development.
551 South Tryon Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 704/ 547-3700 http://www.ganttcenter.org/ Check with Center for closing dates.
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 Los 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
2730 Randolph Road Charlotte, North Carolina 28207 704/ 337-2000 www.mintmuseum.org carla.hanzal@mintmuseum.org
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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.
Lis 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 art.of.gomillion@erols.com
Chicago
Museum of Science and Industry Balcony of the Museums West Pavilion Black Creativity 2010: Juried Art Exhibition On view through February 28, 2010
The Museum of Science and Industrys 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
57th and Lake Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois 60637 773/ 684-1414 http://www.msichicago.org/whatshere/exhibits/black-creativity-2010/
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Endearment. The works on display were selected from more than 350- entries by a distinguished panel of jurors led by Patric McCoy, co-founder of the Diasporal Rhythms, an organization of avid collectors of African-American art. The Museums juried art exhibition is one of the longest-running exhibitions of AfricanAmerican art in the United States. It started in 1970 as Black Esthetics and was the impetus behind the Museums annual Black Creativity celebration, a program that highlights the contributions of African Americans and encourages deeper interest in black culture and heritage.
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Art Museum Martin Puryear Prints On view through May 2, 2010
Cincinnati Art Museum Kara Walker: Harpers Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) February 20 May 2, 2010
Confront the dark subversive imagery of Kara walker and experience Kara Walker:
Harpers Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated). A volatile juxtaposition of history and technology, Kara Walkermasterfully 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 Harpers Pictorial History of the Civil War. Walker
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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.
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 years celebrated exhibition at Cleveland State University: Each in Their Own Voice, African American Artists in Cleveland 1970 to 2005. Gallery talk with the artist at 6:00 p.m. on January 22.
The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University 2307 Chester Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114 216/ 687-2103 http://www.csuohio.edu/artgallery/ t.knapp@csuohio.edu
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland William D. Ginn Gallery and Dr. Gerald and Phyllis Seltzer Rotunda Gallery Iona Rozeal Brown: All Falls Down On view through 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.
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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
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 February 04 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 driskellcenter.umd.edu/ driskellcenter@umd.edu
Columbia
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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 AfricanAmerican 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 such as Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar. The exhibition includes works by 41 artists including Moe Brooker, James Brantley, Charles Searles, Sam Gilliam and others who have made major contributions to the development of American art. 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 Arts 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
Detroit
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Crowning Glories On view through September 2010
This exhibition is a tribute to the beauty, style, and self-expression of black women, Crowning Glories is an historical survey of their hat wearing traditions from 1850 to the present. Featured will be drawings, photographs and a variety of exciting styles of headwear loaned from the collections of local
315 East Warren Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201 313/ 494-5800 www.maah-detroit.org
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and national hat queens and designers.
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 Hurstons work. Zora Neale Hurston: The Legacy of Inspired Reality features two- and three-dimensional works, representing photography, installation art, and mixed media.
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, 1120 East Kearsley Street Flint, Michigan 48503-1915
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Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond Hodge & Temporary Exhibition Galleries On view through April 18, 2010
Mary Lee Bendolph, Gees Bend Quilts, and Beyond highlights one of Gees Bends most original artists, Mary Lee Bendolph, and also explores the work of three of Bendolphs close relatives, her mother, Aolar Mosely, her daughter, Essie B. Pettway, and her daughterin-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 Gees 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.
810/ 234-1695 www.flintarts.org info@flintarts.org
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 Weatherspoons atrium, along with eight works on
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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.
Greensboro, North Carolina 27402 336/ 334-5770 www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu/ weatherspoon@uncg.edu
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
Huntington Building Hampton, Virginia 23668 757/727-5308 www.hamptonu.edu/museum Vanessa.Thaxton-Ward@Hamptonu.edu
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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 couples first child, Rachel, was born in 1907 and shortly afterward they traveled to Virginia. The Van Der Zees 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.
Hartford
Lancaster
The Phillips Museum of Art Franklin and Marshall College
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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 Cook Distinguished Artist in Residence, 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, Souleymane Keita, Lawrence ComptonKolawole, James Little, Sam Middleton, Padmini Mongia, Iba N' Diaye, Baba Shongo Obadina, Larry Potter, Bob Shigeo, Shirley Stark, William T. Williams. 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.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 717/ 291-3879 www.fandm.edu/exhibitions
Los Angeles
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
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213/ 744-7432 www.caamuseum.org
California African American Museum Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts On view through June 6, 2010
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 thirtyfive photographers and tracks a crucial episode in American social and political history.
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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. For more information and a sampling of works, see: http://www.skirball.org/index.php?option= com_ccevents&scope=exbt&task= detail&ccmenu=v2hhdcdzie9u&oid=36
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.
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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/ montpelier.arts@pgparks.com
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 themespecific. Actors Theatre is a not-for-profit professional regional theatre located in the heart of downtown Louisville, Ky. Over 20,000 theatre and arts patrons view the exhibition, which has become a popular highlight of the regions visual arts season.
316 West Main Street Louisville, Kentucky 40202-4218 502/ 584-1265 www.actorstheatre.org/visit_gallery.htm lhankins@actorstheatre.org
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
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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. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Montclair
Montclair Art Museum A Fo r c e fo r Cha ng e: A fr i c a n A mer i c a n A r t a nd t he Ju l i us R os en wa l d Fu nd 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 will present the artistic and scholarly products of Julius Rosenwalds support, and includes 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
3 South Mountain Avenue Montclair, New Jersey 07042 973/ 746-5555 www.montclairartmuseum.org
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African American artists from the Montclair Art Museum's permanent collection. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
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 ONeal, 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/ universitymuseums@udel.edu
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
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
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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. The following artists are included: Adel Abdessemed, Edgar Arceneaux, Jabu Arnell, Sanford Biggers, Kabir Carter, William Cordova, Thierry Fontaine, Charles Gaines, Deborah Grant, Rashawn Griffin,David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Leslie Hewitt, Wayne Hodge, Rashid Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, Jayson Keeling, Simone Leigh, Glenn Ligon, Dave McKenzie, Nicole Miller, My Barbarian, Kori Newkirk, Chris Ofili, Demetrius Oliver, Karyn Olivier, John Outterbridge, Clifford Owens, Akosua Adoma Owusu, William Pope.L, Michael Queenland, Robin Rhode, Jimmy Robert, Nadine Robinson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith, Soda_Jerk, Kianja Strobert, Stacy Lynn Waddell, and Nari Ward. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
New York, New York 10027 212/ 864-4500 www.studiomuseum.org
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 artists in this exhibition use the medium in a variety of ways. John Dowell, whose work Delicate Touch (1977) provides the inspiration for the title of the exhibition, uses watercolor to create meditations on jazz. Other midtwentieth-century artists, including Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney and Norman Lewis, chose watercolor for landscapes and nature scenes. Meanwhile, contemporary artists, including John Bankston, Wangechi Mutu and Otobong Nkanga, use the medium to capture forms and figures. The exhibition was organized by Curatorial Assistant Lauren Haynes, and includes the following artists: John Bankston, Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, John Dowell, Sam
Romare Bearden Untitled (Classical Series), c. 1948 The Studio Museum in Harlem; museum
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Gilliam, Norman Lewis, Wangechi Mutu, Otobong Nkanga, Chris Ofili, and Richard Yarde.
purchase and a gift from E.Thomas and Audlyn Higgins Williams 97.9.6
Oakland
Joyce Gordon Gallery Main Gallery and Photography Gallery F or C ol or e d Gi r l s On l y February 12 March 28, 2010
All women group show.
406 14th Street Oakland, California 94612 510/ 465-8928 www.joycegordongallery.com jvbgg@sbcglobal.net
Topeka
Mulvane Art Museum Color in Freedom: Journey Along the Underground Railroad February 6 April 3, 2010
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 & the powerful instinct toward freedom.
Washburn University 17th and Jewell Topeka, Kansas 66621 785/ 670-1124 http://www.washburn.edu/mulvane/ exhibits.html Mulvane.info@washburn.edu
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, Ze Charlton, Philemona Williamson, and others.
Towson State University 8000 York Road Towson, Maryland 21252 410/ 704-2787 http://www.towson.edu/ artscalendar/Arts.asp
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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 reenslavement was inspired by Douglas Blackmons 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning nonfiction 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 Intvisions@aol.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/ parishgallery@bigplanet.com
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum The African Presence in Mxico: From Yanga to the Present On view through July 4, 2010
1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC 20020 202/ 633-4820 www.anacostia.si.edu ACMinfo@si.edu

Winston-Salem
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.
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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. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
March
Alexandria
Alexandria Black History Museum Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art On view through 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 traces 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 basketmaking tools and rice cultivation relics.
902 Wythe Street Alexandria, Virginia 22314 703/ 746-4356
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Atlanta
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
830 East Pratt Street Baltimore, Maryland 21202 443/ 263-1800 www.africanamericanculture.org emailus@maamc.org
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Bearden over more than 30 years. The works in From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden show Beardens 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. John Loring writing in Arts Magazine in 1973 proclaimed The Family as one of the most important prints of the time. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Birmingham
2000 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd. Birmingham, Alabama 35203 205/ 254-2565 www.artsbma.org
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Brooklyn
Corridor Gallery Black Artists as Activist On view through March 28, 2010
Charlotte
Harvey B. Gantt Center for AfricanAmerican Art and Culture Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell
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February 12, 2010 Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell highlights for the first time the prints of the renowned Distinguished University of Maryland Professor Emeritus of Art, David C. Driskell, an Artist, Art Historian, Collector, Curator, Educator, and one of the most recognized and respected names in the world of African American art and culture. This exhibition includes more than seventy-five prints by Driskell as well as several works on paper which will provide insight into Driskell's artistic process and development.
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Art Museum Kara Walker: Harpers Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) On view through May 2, 2010
Confront the dark subversive imagery of Kara walker and experience Kara Walker: Harpers 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 Harpers Pictorial History of the Civil War. Walker then overlays these enlargements with
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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.
Cleveland
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
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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, Ren Green, Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley, among others. Addressing a range of themes and issues, the exhibition presents an overview of the rich cultural heritage voiced by contemporary African-American artists in their examination of history, identity, and memory.
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
The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora William T. Williams: Variations on Themes March 31 May 28, 2010
Curated by Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, Curator of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York City.
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Columbia
Columbia Museum of Art The Chemistry of Color: Contemporary African-American Artists On view through May 09, 2010
Detroit
This exhibition is a tribute to the beauty, style, and self-expression of black women, Crowning Glories is an historical survey of their hat wearing traditions from 1850 to the present. Featured will be drawings, photographs and a variety of exciting styles of
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headwear loaned from the collections of local and national hat queens and designers.
Eatonville
Evanston
Dittmar Memorial Gallery Norris University Center AfriCOBRA and the Chicago Black Arts Movement On view through 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
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Flint
Flint Institute of Arts Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond Hodge & Temporary Exhibition Galleries On view through April 18, 2010
Greensboro
Weatherspoon Art Museum Existed: Leonardo Drew On view through May 09, 2010
This major mid-career survey exhibition, Existed: Leonardo Drew, includes fourteen large-scale works realized between 1991 and 2006,
University of North Carolina Greensboro Corner of Spring Garden and Tate Streets Greensboro, North Carolina 27402 336/ 334-5770 www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu/ weatherspoon@uncg.edu
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including the installation, Number 123 (2006), which is specially adapted by the artist for the Weatherspoons 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.
Hampton
Hampton University Museum The City of Hampton: Through the Lens of Reuben V. Burrell and James Van Der Zee On view through 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,
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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 couples first child, Rachel, was born in 1907 and shortly afterward they traveled to Virginia. The Van Der Zees 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.
Hartford
Laurel
Montpelier Arts Center Marcella Morgese, Library Gallery Culture of the Mind and Spirit: An Exhibition of Regional African American Artists On view through March 26, 2010
The exhibition features the works of a diverse
9652 Muirkirk Road Laurel, Maryland 20708 301/ 377-7800; 410-792-0664 http://www.pgparks.com/ montpelier.arts@pgparks.com
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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.
Los Angeles
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.
California African American Museum
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Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts On view through June 6, 2010

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 thirtyfive 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. For more information and a sampling of works, see: http://www.skirball.org/index.php?option= com_ccevents&scope=exbt&task= detail&ccmenu=v2hhdcdzie9u&oid=36
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Mobile
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.
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Wells.
Montclair
Montclair Art Museum A Fo r c e fo r Cha ng e: A fr i c a n A mer i c a n A r t a nd t he Ju l i us R os en wa l d Fu nd On view through 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 will present the artistic and scholarly products of Julius Rosenwalds support, and includes more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-two Rosenwald fellows, as well as a short documentary film.
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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.
Newark
University Museums University of Delaware Mechanical Hall Gallery Abstract Relations On view through June 06, 2010
New York
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.
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The following artists are included: Adel Abdessemed, Edgar Arceneaux, Jabu Arnell, Sanford Biggers, Kabir Carter, William Cordova, Thierry Fontaine, Charles Gaines, Deborah Grant, Rashawn Griffin,David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Leslie Hewitt, Wayne Hodge, Rashid Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, Jayson Keeling, Simone Leigh, Glenn Ligon, Dave McKenzie, Nicole Miller, My Barbarian, Kori Newkirk, Chris Ofili, Demetrius Oliver, Karyn Olivier, John Outterbridge, Clifford Owens, Akosua Adoma Owusu, William Pope.L, Michael Queenland, Robin Rhode, Jimmy Robert, Nadine Robinson, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith, Soda_Jerk, Kianja Strobert, Stacy Lynn Waddell, and Nari Ward. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
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 artists in this exhibition use the medium in a variety of ways. John Dowell, whose work Delicate Touch (1977) provides the inspiration for the title of the exhibition, uses watercolor to create meditations on jazz. Other midtwentieth-century artists, including Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney and Norman Lewis, chose watercolor for landscapes and nature scenes. Meanwhile, contemporary artists, including John Bankston, Wangechi Mutu and Otobong Nkanga, use the medium to capture forms and figures. 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.
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
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Oakland
Joyce Gordon Gallery Main Gallery and Photography Gallery F or C ol or e d Gi r l s On l y On view through March 28, 2010
All women group show.
406 14th Street Oakland, California 94612 510/ 465-8928 www.joycegordongallery.com jvbgg@sbcglobal.net
Topeka
Mulvane Art Museum Color in Freedom: Journey Along the Underground Railroad On view through April 3, 2010
Towson
Center for the Arts Gallery A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art On view through April 17, 2010
Washington, DC
International Visions-The Gallery Michael Platt On view through March 13, 2010 2629 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20008 202/ 234-5112 www.inter-visions.com
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Intvisions@aol.com Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum The African Presence in Mxico: From Yanga to the Present On view through July 4, 2010
Winston-Salem
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.
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A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
April
Atlanta
An American Consciousness: Robin Holder's Mid-Career Retrospective is an in-depth examination of Holders three decades as a printmaker. Holder, a New Yorkbased 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 selfreflective images are meditations on identity,
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womens 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.
Birmingham
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,
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University of Alabama, and Curator of the Paul R. Jones Collection, serves as the guest curator for this exhibition.
Charlotte
Cincinnati
The acclaimed sculptor, Martin Puryear, has another side; he is a great printmaker. This exhibit surveys a decade of Puryears printmaking. Often referencing his areas of personal interest, Puryears prints are inspired by furniture design, basketry and international travel. Martin Puryear Prints reveals
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Puryears exploration of printmaking to capture his three-dimensional ideas.
Confront the dark subversive imagery of Kara walker and experience Kara Walker: Harpers 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 Harpers 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.
Cleveland
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College Park
The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora William T. Williams: Variations on Themes On view through May 28, 2010
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Columbia
Detroit
This exhibition is a tribute to the beauty, style, and self-expression of black women, Crowning Glories is an historical survey of their hat wearing traditions from 1850 to the
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present. Featured will be drawings, photographs and a variety of exciting styles of headwear loaned from the collections of local and national hat queens and designers.
Eatonville
Flint
Flint Institute of Arts Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond Hodge & Temporary Exhibition Galleries On view through April 18, 2010
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Greensboro
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 Weatherspoons 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
University of North Carolina Greensboro Corner of Spring Garden and Tate Streets
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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.
Greensboro, North Carolina 27402 336/ 334-5770 www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu/ weatherspoon@uncg.edu
Hampton
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
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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 couples first child, Rachel, was born in 1907 and shortly afterward they traveled to Virginia. The Van Der Zees 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.
Hartford
Los Angeles
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Mobile
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.
Montclair
Montclair Art Museum A Fo r c e fo r Cha ng e: A fr i c a n A mer i c a n A r t a nd t he Ju l i us 3 South Mountain Avenue Montclair, New Jersey 07042 973/ 746-5555
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R os en wa l d Fu nd On view through 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 will present the artistic and scholarly products of Julius Rosenwalds support, and includes 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.
www.montclairartmuseum.org
Newark
Felrath Hines, Sentinel II, 1983. Oil on linen, 48 x 46
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in. University Museums, University of Delaware. Gift of Dorothy C. Fisher, Wife of the Artist. Felrath Hines Estate.
Topeka
Mulvane Art Museum Color in Freedom: Journey Along the Underground Railroad On view through April 3, 2010
Towson
Center for the Arts Gallery A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art On view through April 17, 2010
Washington, DC
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum The African Presence in Mxico: 1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC 20020 202/ 633-4820
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From Yanga to the Present On view through July 4, 2010

www.anacostia.si.edu ACMinfo@si.edu
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Gallery, On level 2 at the National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center April 23 - August 30, 2010 Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment The exhibition features more than 100 photographs created by what was one of the premiere African American photography studios in the country and one of the longest-running black businesses in Washington, D.C.
Constitution Avenue and 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20013 202/ 633-1000 www.nmaahc.si.edu info@si.edu
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May
Atlanta
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Birmingham
Charlotte
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 Centers permanent collection. Dedicated collectors despite their financial limitations (John was a freelance writer and Vivian a librarian), through their 50 years of collecting, the Hewitts became close friends with many of the artists. By the 1970s they were opening their home to showcase the work of Hale Woodruff, Ernest Crichlow, Alvin Hollingsworth, and J. Eugene Grigsby, a cousin of Mrs. Hewitts. For 10 years the Hewitt
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collection has toured the United States. The Gantt Center is very pleased to serve as its home.
Cincinnati
Confront the dark subversive imagery of Kara walker and experience Kara Walker: Harpers 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 Harpers 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.
Cleveland
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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, Ren Green, Kara Walker and Kehinde
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Wiley, among others. Addressing a range of themes and issues, the exhibition presents an overview of the rich cultural heritage voiced by contemporary African-American artists in their examination of history, identity, and memory.
College Park
The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora William T. Williams: Variations on Themes On view through May 28, 2010
Columbia
The Columbia Museum of Art celebrates its 60th anniversary year by hosting a major exhibition of art by contemporary AfricanAmerican 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 such as Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar. The exhibition includes works by 41 artists including Moe Brooker, James Brantley, Charles Searles, Sam Gilliam and others who have made major contributions to the development of American art. 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.
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In conjunction with the Columbia Museum of Arts 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.
Detroit
Eatonville
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Greensboro
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 Weatherspoons 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/ weatherspoon@uncg.edu
Hampton
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
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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 couples first child, Rachel, was born in 1907 and shortly afterward they traveled to Virginia. The Van Der Zees 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.
Los Angeles
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Montclair
Newark
University Museums University of Delaware Mechanical Hall Gallery Abstract Relations On view through June 06, 2010 University Museums Mechanical Hall (MEH) near the intersection of East Main Street and North College Avenue Newark, Delaware 302-831-8037
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http://www.udel.edu/museums/ universitymuseums@udel.edu
Washington, DC
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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Gallery, On level 2 at the National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center On view through August 30, 2010 Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment The exhibition features more than 100 photographs created by what was one of the premiere African American photography studios in the country and one of the longest-running black businesses in Washington, D.C.
June
Charlotte
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 Centers permanent collection. Dedicated collectors despite their financial limitations (John was a freelance writer and Vivian a librarian), through their 50 years of collecting, the Hewitts became close friends with many of the artists. By the 1970s they were opening their home to showcase the work of Hale Woodruff, Ernest Crichlow, Alvin
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Hollingsworth, and J. Eugene Grigsby, a cousin of Mrs. Hewitts. For 10 years the Hewitt collection has toured the United States. The Gantt Center is very pleased to serve as its home.
Detroit
Eatonville
Hampton
Hampton University Museum The City of Hampton: Through the Huntington Building Hampton, Virginia 23668
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Lens of Reuben V. Burrell and James Van Der Zee On view through 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 couples first child, Rachel, was born in 1907 and shortly afterward they traveled to Virginia. The Van Der Zees 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.
757/727-5308 www.hamptonu.edu/museum Vanessa.Thaxton-Ward@Hamptonu.edu
Los Angeles
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
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choreographer and extraordinary dancer, cofounded 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
Montclair
Newark
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Washington, DC
The African Presence in Mxico: 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 AfroMexicans; 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
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country of Mexico. These exhibitions were
July
Charlotte
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 Centers permanent collection. Dedicated collectors despite their financial limitations (John was a freelance writer and Vivian a librarian), through their 50 years of
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collecting, the Hewitts became close friends with many of the artists. By the 1970s they were opening their home to showcase the work of Hale Woodruff, Ernest Crichlow, Alvin Hollingsworth, and J. Eugene Grigsby, a cousin of Mrs. Hewitts. For 10 years the Hewitt collection has toured the United States. The Gantt Center is very pleased to serve as its home.
Detroit
Eatonville
Hampton
Hampton University Museum Huntington Building
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The City of Hampton: Through the Lens of Reuben V. Burrell and James Van Der Zee On view through November 27, 2010
Hampton, Virginia 23668 757/727-5308 www.hamptonu.edu/museum Vanessa.Thaxton-Ward@Hamptonu.edu
Montclair
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
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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 will present the artistic and scholarly products of Julius Rosenwalds support, and includes 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.
Washington, DC

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August
Charlotte
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 Centers permanent collection. Dedicated collectors despite their financial limitations (John was a freelance writer and Vivian a librarian), through their 50 years of collecting, the Hewitts became close friends with many of the artists. By the 1970s they were opening their home to showcase the work of Hale Woodruff, Ernest Crichlow, Alvin Hollingsworth, and J. Eugene Grigsby, a cousin of Mrs. Hewitts. For 10 years the Hewitt collection has toured the United States. The Gantt Center is very pleased to serve as its
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home.
Detroit
Eatonville
Hampton
Hampton University Museum The City of Hampton: Through the Lens of Reuben V. Burrell and James Van Der Zee On view through November 27, 2010 Huntington Building Hampton, Virginia 23668 757/727-5308 www.hamptonu.edu/museum Vanessa.Thaxton-Ward@Hamptonu.edu
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Washington, DC
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Gallery, On level 2 at the National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center On view through August 30, 2010 Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment
The exhibition features more than 100 photographs created by what was one of the premiere African American photography studios in the country and one of the longestrunning black businesses in Washington, D.C.
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September
Charlotte
Detroit
This exhibition is a tribute to the beauty, style, and self-expression of black women,
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Crowning Glories is an historical survey of their hat wearing traditions from 1850 to the present. Featured will be drawings, photographs and a variety of exciting styles of headwear loaned from the collections of local and national hat queens and designers.
Hampton
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October
Charlotte
Hampton
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
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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 couples first child, Rachel, was born in 1907 and shortly afterward they traveled to Virginia. The Van Der Zees 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.
November
Charlotte
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 Centers permanent collection.
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Dedicated collectors despite their financial limitations (John was a freelance writer and Vivian a librarian), through their 50 years of collecting, the Hewitts became close friends with many of the artists. By the 1970s they were opening their home to showcase the work of Hale Woodruff, Ernest Crichlow, Alvin Hollingsworth, and J. Eugene Grigsby, a cousin of Mrs. Hewitts. For 10 years the Hewitt collection has toured the United States. The Gantt Center is very pleased to serve as its home.
Hampton
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 couples first child, Rachel, was born in 1907 and shortly afterward they traveled to Virginia. The Van Der Zees 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
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academic community at Whittier Preparatory School.
December
Charlotte
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Helen Singleton, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Eric Etheridge

buttons and newspaper clippings.

4850 Museum Drive Mobile, Alabama 36608 251/ 208-5200 www.mobilemuseumofart.com

Lou Stovall, William T. Williams and James L. Wells.

William T. Williams, Caravan, 1997, lithograph

Jabu Arnell, Disco Ball 2, 2009, Courtesy of artist

On view through July 4, 2010

organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago.

902 Wythe Street Alexandria, Virginia 22314 703/ 746-4356

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Robin Holder, Aspiration, 1986, Linoleum print with stencils

80 Hanson Place Brooklyn, New York 11217 718-230-0492 http://www.mocada.org/ info@mocada.org

and national hat queens and designers.

810/ 234-1695 www.flintarts.org info@flintarts.org

Greensboro, North Carolina 27402 336/ 334-5770 www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu/ weatherspoon@uncg.edu

Huntington Building Hampton, Virginia 23668 757/727-5308 www.hamptonu.edu/museum Vanessa.Thaxton-Ward@Hamptonu.edu

Lancaster, Pennsylvania 717/ 291-3879 www.fandm.edu/exhibitions

600 State Drive Exposition Park Los Angeles, California 90037

213/ 744-7432 www.caamuseum.org

Helen Singleton, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Eric Etheridge

4850 Museum Drive Mobile, Alabama 36608 251/ 208-5200 www.mobilemuseumofart.com

William T. Williams, Caravan, 1997, lithograph

144 West 125th Street

New York, New York 10027 212/ 864-4500 www.studiomuseum.org

Jabu Arnell, Disco Ball 2, 2009, Courtesy of artist

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 Intvisions@aol.com

Parish Gallery-Georgetown Margaret Burroughs: Collage, Linocut February 5 28, 2010

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organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago.

902 Wythe Street Alexandria, Virginia 22314 703/ 746-4356

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Robin Holder, Aspiration, 1986, Linoleum print with stencils

Verify closing date before visiting.

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California African American Museum

600 State Drive

Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts On view through June 6, 2010

Exposition Park Los Angeles, California 90037 213/ 744-7432 www.caamuseum.org

Helen Singleton, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Eric Etheridge

4850 Museum Drive Mobile, Alabama 36608 251/ 208-5200 www.mobilemuseumofart.com

William T. Williams, Caravan, 1997, lithograph

Jabu Arnell, Disco Ball 2, 2009, Courtesy of artist

1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC 20020 202/ 633-4820 www.anacostia.si.edu ACMinfo@si.edu

organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago.

A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.

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Robin Holder, Aspiration, 1986, Linoleum print with stencils

Puryears exploration of printmaking to capture his three-dimensional ideas.

Greensboro, North Carolina 27402 336/ 334-5770 www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu/ weatherspoon@uncg.edu

Huntington Building Hampton, Virginia 23668 757/727-5308 www.hamptonu.edu/museum Vanessa.Thaxton-Ward@Hamptonu.edu