Guide To Black Art Exhibitions in 2009 Without Images

Guide to Black Art Exhibitions in 2009
Introduction
The Guide to Black Art Exhibitions in 2009 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
High Museum of Art The Treasure of Ulysses Davis On view through April 5, 2009 The Treasure of Ulysses Davis, which was
organized in collaboration with the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation of Savannah, Georgia, will feature approximately 115 works including representative works from every genre in which Davis worked: portraits of U.S. and African leaders, religious images, patriotic works, carvings influenced by African forms, fantasy, flora and fauna, love, humor, abstract decorative objects and utilitarian objects such as canes and furniture. The exhibition will feature Davis's best-known artwork, a series of 40 carved busts of all the U.S. Presidents through George H. W. Bush from the KingTisdell Cottage Foundation collection. Other highlights include a moving depiction of Jesus on the Cross, from the High's permanent collection. A range of rarely seen carvings from private collections will also be on view. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30309 404/ 733-4400; 404/ 733-HIGH www.high.org/ highmuseum@woodruffcenter.org
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Showcase and Tell: Treasures from the Spelman College Permanent Collection January 29 May 16, 2009
Spelman College 350 Spelman Lane, SW Atlanta, Georgia 30314 404/ 270-5607 www.spelman.edu/museum museum@spelman.edu
Baltimore
Goya Contemporary Joyce J. Scott: Painful Death / Painless Life On view through January 23, 2009
A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Goya Contemporary Mill Center, Studio 214 3000 Chestnut Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21211 410/ 366-2001 www.goyacontemporary.com
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland
830 East Pratt Street
African American History and Culture Lift Every Voice: Portraits of African American Musicians by Russ Moss On view through March 8, 2009
This exhibition features black and white photographs of Baltimores African American musicians. The selected photographs were originally created for Sounds & Stories: The Musical Life of Maryland's African American Communities, an oral history project developed by the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Grants from the Maryland Historical Trust and the Maryland Humanities Council enabled the Peabody to record the memories of the musicians. Mosss candid portraits present a visual legacy of their lives in music.
Baltimore, Maryland 21202 443/ 263-1800 www.africanamericanculture.org emailus@maamc.org
The Walters Art Museum Portraits Re/Examined: A Dawoud Bey Project On view through February 16, 2009
This exhibition features photographs by celebrated American artist Dawoud Bey, who for the past several years has created portraits of young people challenging stereotypes about urban youth. During Beys artist-in-residency project, the artist collaborated with 12 teenagers from several Baltimore-area public, private, and home schools in a summer workshop that began with an exploration of how race, class and identity have been addressed in portraiture throughout art history. The Walters collection became the basis for discussions about museum practice, its role in society and the role of contemporary art in museums with historical collections. The resulting focus exhibition Portraits Re/Examined: A Dawoud Bey Project, curated by Bey and the teens, features 10 photographic portraits by Bey, juxtaposed with paintings, drawings, and portrait miniatures from the Walters collection to create a unique dialogue.
600 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 410/ 547-9000 http://www.thewalters.org/ info@thewalters.org
Brooklyn
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) Johannesburg to New York January 29 May 17, 2009
Johannesburg to New York is the first retrospective of the collaborative work between South African artist Samson Mnisi and New York artist Cannon Hersey. Combining their various perspectives on the changing cultural dynamics of South Africa and its emergence onto the world stage, these artists have created mixed media imagery that is socially conscious while also being visually stimulating. Mnisi incorporates ancient Zulu symbolism and rituals with Hersey's captivating photography to give viewers insider and outsider perspectives on contemporary South African societies.
80 Hanson Place Brooklyn, New York 11217 718-230-0492 http://www.mocada.org/ info@mocada.org
Chicago
Chicago Public Library The Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of African American History and Literature Exhibit Gallery To See Reality in a New Light: The Art and Activism of Marion Perkins On view through December 31, 2009
This is a major retrospective exhibition on the life and work of Chicago Renaissance sculptor and social activist Marion Perkins. It includes original sculptures by Perkins, on loan to the Chicago Public Library from the Art Institute of Chicago, DuSable Museum of African American History, members of the Perkins family, art galleries, and private collectors. The Art and Activism of Marion Perkins also features original correspondence, rare photographs, and memorabilia from the holdings of the Harsh Research Collection.
Woodson Regional Library 9525 S. Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60628 312/745-2080 http://www.chipublib.org/ eventsprog/programs/exhibits.php
Chicago State University Presidents Gallery
Cook Administration Building 3rd floor
Al Tyler: Paintings, Drawings and Prints January 28 February 28, 2009

A visual artist for more than sixty years, Al Tyler has developed wide-ranging artistic talents, including operating a gallery and producing art as a 30-year employee of the City of Evanston, IL. Tyler's art is included in important private and public collections. The longtime resident of Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood presents an alluring sampling of his life's work during African American History Month.
9501 South Martin Luther King Drive Chicago, Illinois 60628 773/ 995-3905 www.csu.edu jander20@csu.edu
Gallery Guichard Milton Bowens: Recent Works January 30 March 31, 2009
3521 South Martin Luther King Drive Chicago, Illinois 60653 773/ 373-8000 www.galleryguichard.com andreguichard@yahoo.com
Museum of Science and Industry West Pavilion Black Creativity 2009: Juried Art Exhibition January 15 March 1, 2009
The Museum of Science and Industrys annual Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition will feature 80 original works of art from both professional and amateur African-American artists from around the country. The works on display were selected from more than 390 entries by a distinguished panel of jurors led by Kymberly Pinder, Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, Theory and Criticism at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The winning entries were selected from the categories of ceramics, drawings, mixed medium, paintings, photography, sculpture, textiles and this years newest category Green Art. The art exhibition is a part of the Museums annual Black Creativity celebration, a program that highlights the contributions of African Americans and encourages deeper interest in black culture and heritage. This years Black Creativity exhibit is Green Revolution and features African-American architects, designers, engineers and business leaders in the green movement.
57th and Lake Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois 60637 773/ 684-1414 http://www.msichicago.org/whatshere/exhibits/black-creativity-2009/
Cleveland
The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University Main Gallery Each in Their Own Voice: African American Artists in Cleveland, 1970 2005 January 23 March 7, 2009
This exhibition is a collaborative project between Cleveland State University, the Cleveland Artists Foundation, and the East Cleveland Public Library. An exhibition of 24 prominent African American artists, active in Cleveland between 1970 and 2005, were selected by a community advisory panel. An exhibition catalog and on-line oral histories of the artists document the show. The following artists are included in the exhibition: Anna Arnold, Lawrence Baker, Robert Banks, Jr., Cushmere Bell, Alfred Bright, Moe Brooker, Malcolm Brown, David Buttram, Johnny Coleman, Dexter Davis, Kevin Everson, Curlee Raven Holton, Miller Horns, Mark Howard, Beni Kosh, Michaelangelo Lovelace, D. Anthony Mahone, John L. Moore, Virgie Patton-Ezelle, Charles Pinckney, Angelica Pozo, Charles Salle, Jr., Kevin Snipes, Nelson Stevens, and Reverend Albert Wagner. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University 2307 Chester Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114 216/ 687-2103 http://www.csuohio.edu/artgallery/ aknapp@csuohio.edu
Detroit
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Contemporary Artist Gallery (lower level) Let Your Motto Be Resistance On view through March 1, 2009
As the first national traveling exhibition jointly developed by the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Portrait Gallery, it explores photographys role in shaping public identity and individual concepts of race and socioeconomic status over the past 150 years.
315 East Warren Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48201 313/ 494-5800 www.maah-detroit.org
The exhibitions title was inspired by the cry of a Maryland slave, Henry Highland Garnet (1815 1882), who escaped north, became an abolitionist and spoke the phrase that gives the show its title: Strike for your lives and liberties. Rather die freemen than live to be slaves. Let your motto be resistance. Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Coleman A. Young Gallery (upper and lower levels) Women of a New Tribe (featuring select women of Metro Detroit) On view through April 6, 2009
Women of a New Tribe is a stunning national exhibition celebrating the physical and inner beauty of African American women presented in the 1930s to 1940s glamour, fine art black and white photography styles through the award winning lenses of Jerry Taliaferro, a West Point alumnus and resident of Charlotte, North Carolina. All of the exhibited images together present a mosaic of the African American woman in her many forms and essences. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Flint
Flint Institute of Arts Temporary Exhibition Gallery Beyond the Frame: African American Comic Book Artists January 24 April 26, 2009
Beyond the Frame: African American Comic Book Artists presents the work of African American artists working in commercial, self-published, and web-based comic book and graphic novel genres. The exhibition will reflect a cross-section of artists, some well established, others emerging and active in new areas of publication, such as
1120 East Kearsley Street Flint, Michigan 48503-1915 810/ 234-1695 www.flintarts.org info@flintarts.org
Internet-based web comic art. Beyond the Frame explores the styles and subject matter of artists working in the commercial sector, as well as those whose work emphasizes culturally relevant themes of racial identity, family life, hip-hop culture, and African American history.
Hartford
The Amistad Center for Art and Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Young Americans: Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright On view through January 19, 2009
Through portraiture, artist Sheila Pree Bright explores Millennials thoughts and feelings about America-giving them a platform for their voices to be heard. This body of work, called Young Americans, engages the Millennial, better known as Generation Y, with conversations on America, while they pose with the American Flag. Participants from Generation Y are asked to think about how they see themselves with the American Flag and let Bright photograph them as they illustrate their perceptions of America. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
600 Main Street Hartford, Connecticut 06103-2990 860/ 838-4233 amistadartandculture.org amistadcenter@wadsworthatheneum.org
Los Angeles
California African American Museum (CAAM) A Dream Realized January 15 March 1, 2009
Annually, CAAM celebrates the life and dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a themed photo exhibition reflecting his commitment to the betterment of life for all people. This years installation is expanded to incorporate the dream come true campaign of Barack Obama to be the 44th President of the United States. The timely convergence of this historic event and our countrys annual recognition of Kings extraordinary imprint present a unique opportunity for imagery symbolic of a dream realized for all of us.
600 State Drive Exposition Park Los Angeles, California 90037 213/ 744-7432 www.caamuseum.org kparker@caamuseum.org
Laband Art Gallery Gallery 32 and Its Circle: Los Angeles African American Art Community in the 1960s and 70s
January 24 March 22, 2009 This exhibition will survey the rich, but much forgotten, history of Los Angeles Gallery 32. Dating from 1968 until 1970, Gallery 32 was one of the few art spaces that exhibited emerging African American artists and is significant for its exhibitions of such artists as David Hammons, Betye Saar, Alison Saar, Timothy Washington, and Emory Douglas. The history of Gallery 32 offers a unique view of the vibrant Los Angeles art scene of the period, exposing the diversity of the regions contemporary art practices. This unprecedented exhibition will feature many of the actual works exhibited during the gallerys three-year existence, as well as representative works from that time period by artists associated with the gallery. The exhibition will present paintings, sculptures, drawings and assemblages along with a selection of gallery announcements, photographs and other gallery materials to add insight into the life of the gallery.
Laband Art Gallery Loyola Marymount University 7900 Loyola Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90045-2659 310/ 338-2880 www.cfa.lmu.edu/laband labandinfo@lmu.edu
Louisville
Gallery Actors Theatre of Louisville 15th Annual African American Art Exhibition January 26 - February 28, 2009
This exhibition is an exuberant array of work by local and regional artists, ranging from sculpture in various media to unique mixed media collages and batik to evocative paintings and photography.
316 West Main Street Louisville, Kentucky 40202-4218 502/ 584-1265 www.actorstheatre.org/visit_gallery.htm lhankins@actorstheatre.org
Miami
Miami-Dade Public Library System Main Library-Auditorium Color All

Around: Illustrations by Adjoa J. Burrowes On view through March 31, 2009
Color All Around features 42 original cutpaper collages from picture books illustrated by artist Adjoa J. Burrowes. Burrowes combines her expertise as graphic designer with skillful use of collage and mixed media. Her colorful illustrations pop with exuberant cut-paper figures, organic shapes, and angular forms. Multiple illustrations from the books Grandma's Purple Flowers, My Steps, and Destiny's Gift are included in the show. Displays of preliminary drawings, model photos, and editorial comments introduce visitors to the progression of an illustrated story from initial concept to the finished book.
101 West Flagler Street Miami, Florida 33130 305/ 375-2665 http://www.mdpls.org/
New Orleans
Stella Jones Gallery Elizabeth Catlett: Drawings, Six Decades On view through February 28, 2009 201 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70170 504/ 568-9050 www.stellajonesgallery.com jones6941@aol.com
New York
Jack Shainman Gallery Nick Cave: Recent Soundsuits On view through February 7, 2009
This exhibition of recent Soundsuits by Nick Cave is the second solo exhibition at the Shainman Gallery. It is comprised of a diverse selection of the highly imaginative, mixedmedia, wearable sculptures, Soundsuits, for which Cave has become well-known. Soundsuits, named for the sounds made when the sculptures are worn, are as reminiscent of African and religious ceremonial costumes as they are of haute couture. A multitude of references bring to mind not only disparate cultural traditions but they also highlight Caves diverse background and artistic
513 West 20th New York, New York 10011 212/ 645-1701 www.jackshainman.com info@jackshainman.com katie@jackshainman.com
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training. Cave studied and danced with Alvin Ailey and created his own clothing line which he featured in a shop he opened and ran for ten years. He is as interested in fashion and cultural, ritualistic and ceremonial concepts as he is in politics, a domain that has always been part of his work as demonstrated by acts of collecting and reconfiguring elements and concealing the identity, race, and gender, of those who wear his suits. Rendering them faceless and anonymous the suits help these individuals transcend the political realm in order to enter the realm of dreams and fantasy.
June Kelly Gallery Tonya Ingersol: Kings and Divas On view through January 13, 2009
According to Carl Little, art writer, the title of the exhibition refers to the operas that prompted Ingersols paintings. He further states that they are not just any ordinary operabut rather works that touch on the absurd and surrealand provide rich material relevant to contemporary issues. The paintings reflect the artists recognition of the disturbing nature and often the absurdity of modern day life. The more we study these images, the more we recognize ourselves and the more we admire Ingersols way with paint.
591 Broadway New York, New York 10012 212/ 226-1660 www.junekellygallery.com
June Kelly Gallery LeRoy Henderson: Mermaids and Masquerades January 16 February 24, 2009
Mermaids and Masquerades, an exhibition of dramatic photographs by LeRoy Henderson that captures the joy, the antics and the pageantry of Brooklyns legendary parades and carnivals. Henderson describes himself as a people watcher. His images, in color as well as highcontrast black and white, come from separate bodies of work amassed over four decades of photographing two annual historic events -the West Indian-American Day Carnival, which brings together people from different island
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nations, and the Mermaid Parade, an early summer spectacle that pays tribute to Coney Islands history and mythology and its longago Mardi Gras.
The Studio Museum in Harlem Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool On view through March 15, 2009
Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool was curated by the Nasher Museum (Duke University) and is the career retrospective of the renowned American artist Barkley L. Hendricks. Born in 1945, Hendricks's unique work resides at the nexus of American realism and post-modernism, a space somewhere between portraitists Chuck Close and Alex Katz and pioneering black conceptualists David Hammons and Adrian Piper. He is best known for his stunning, life-sized portraits of people of color from the urban northeast. Cool, empowering and sometimes confrontational, Hendricks's artistic privileging of a culturally complex black body has paved the way for today's younger generation of artists. This unprecedented exhibition of Hendricks's paintings includes work from 1964 to the present. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
144 West 125th Street New York, New York 10027 212/ 864-4500 www.studiomuseum.org
The Studio Museum in Harlem
PROJECT SPACE: SHINIQUE SMITH
On view through March 15, 2009

Shinique Smith will be the second artist to activate the Project Space with an installation designed and executed especially for the gallery. No stranger to the Studio Museum, Smith participated in our emerging artist exhibition Frequency (2005), and is known for her multimedia practice including sculptures made of clothing, collage on walls and paper, painting and drawing. Smiths diverse art treads the lines between accumulation and loss, containment and scatter, legibility and scribble. Smith will transform the walls of the Project Space with a surprising use of text and fabric that will disrupt the traditional definition of mural.
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Oakland
Joyce Gordon Gallery Main Gallery Sweet Dreams: Ben Hazard January 9 March 1, 2009 Twenty new exquisitely executed charcoal drawings, will express the power of life as Ben Hazard sees it. This particular series of charcoal drawings are powerful, social-realistic statements reflecting the time, place and circumstances that both express and evoke emotions. Joyce Gordon Gallery Downstairs Photography Gallery Reflections: D. Michael Cheers January 9 March 1, 2009 This photography exhibit will feature images from documentary photographer and educator, D. Michael Cheers, whose critical photojournalism spans more than three decades. 406 14th Street Oakland, California 94612 510/ 465-8928 www.joycegordongallery.com jvbgg@sbcglobal.net 406 14th Street Oakland, California 94612 510/ 465-8928 www.joycegordongallery.com jvbgg@sbcglobal.net
Philadelphia
African-American Museum in Philadelphia Hidden Treasures: Art Collected by Young African Americans On view through March 8, 2009 701 Arch Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 215/ 574-0380 http://www.aampmuseum.org/ info@aampmuseum.org
Philadelphia Museum of Art Joan Spain Gallery, first floor, Perelman Building Quilt Stories: The Ella King Torrey Collection of African American Quilts and Other Recent Quilt Acquisitions On view through March 1, 2009
This exhibit includes thirteen examples by leading Southern quiltmakers. The collection was formed between 1980 and 1983 while Ms. Torrey was conducting fieldwork on African
Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building Fairmont and Pennsylvania Avenues Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19130 215/ 763-8100 http://www.philamuseum.org/ visitorservices@philamuseum.org
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American quiltmaking with Maude Southwell Wahlman. Among its highlights are an appliqud word quilt by the Mississippi artist Sarah Mary Taylor (born 1916) and one of her hand quilts, a version commissioned for the film The Color Purple.
Sande Webster Gallery Main Gallery John Mc Daniel: Leaping Boundaries On view through February 2, 2009
McDaniel recently shifted from painting on canvas to painting on sheets of metal. In Leaping Boundaries his two-dimensional artistic vision has developed into painted constructions of overlapping stainless steel sheets, perforated metal, wire, and brass rods. The combination of overlapping metal, variation in surfaces, and three-dimensional lines create very cryptic constructions.
2006 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 215/ 636-9003 www.artswg@aol.com
Woodmere Art Museum In Search of Missing Masters: The Lewis Tanner Moore Collection of African American Art On view through February 22, 2009
In Search of Missing Masters is the second in Woodmeres series of exhibitions highlighting distinguished private collections of art from the greater Philadelphia region. Lewis Tanner Moore, a descendant of the famed 19th-century African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner, began his art collection some three decades ago, with a small number of paintings handed down to him from his father, a prominent Philadelphia attorney. From the outset, Mr. Moore concentrated on twentieth-century art and on developing personal connections with the artists he was collecting. With a devotees zeal, he pursued not just the well-known names but also the unheralded masters whose works and achievements had slipped into obscurity. Woodmeres exhibition is composed of more than one-hundred paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some four to five dozen artists. Included in the ensemble are such well-known artists as Henry Ossawa Tanner, Allan Freelon, Dox Thrash, Selma Burke, Charles White, and Romare Bearden; local
Woodmere Art Museum 9201 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19118 215/ 247-0476 www.woodmereartmuseum.org/
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figures such as Raymond Steth, Humbert Howard, Louis Sloan, Ellen Powell Tiberino, Moe Brooker, Barbara Bullock, and Charles Burwell; as well as a number of talented and influential if not yet well-known artists whose works will be presented here for the first time in a museum. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Richmond
Anderson Gallery 3rd Floor Beaded Prayers Project January 16 March 1, 2009
This project is directed by artist Sonya Clark, Chair of Virginia Commonwealth Universitys Department of Craft/Material Studies. The Beaded Prayers Project is an ongoing collaborative artwork begun in 1999 that now comprises over 4,500 beaded prayers. Inspired by protective amulets made by people in Africa and throughout the world, the beaded prayers represent the participation of individuals from 36 different countries, ranging in age from 6 through 90. Each sealed, embellished packet contains the written wishes, hopes, dreams and prayers of its maker. According to Clark, the diversity of packets is a celebration of the unique contributions each individual has to offer. Artist Talk / Workshop: Thursday, January 29, 2009 from 2:00 5:00 PM.
Virginia Commonwealth University Anderson Gallery 907 West Franklin Street Richmond, Virginia 23284-2514 804/ 828-1522 http://www.vcu.edu/arts/gallery/ artgallery@vcu.edu
Sacramento
40 Acres Art Gallery African American Currents: Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection January 20 March 28, 2009
African American Currents: Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection showcases work from its holdings by some of the leading artists of the African Diaspora. There are over seventy artworks in African American Currents, ranging from paintings
40 Acres Art Gallery 35th Street and Broadway 3428 3rd Avenue Sacramento, California 95817 916/ 456-5080 or 916/ 649-7900 http://www.40acresartgallery.org/ about-1.html kcurry@sthope.org
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and sculptures to photography, prints and mixed media collages. The exhibit is a blend of modern masters such as Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, with contemporary masters as Martin Puryear, Willie Birch, Faith Ringgold and Raymond Saunders; works by artists working outside the mainstream like Minnie Evans and Horace Pippin; and a representation by a younger generation of artists, including Whitfield Lovell, Kevin Cole, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Lorna Simpson.
St. Petersburg
Museum of Fine Arts Revelations: Works by Self-Taught African American Artists Ongoing
In celebration of recent donations to the collection, the Museum presents a selection of remarkable artworks by African American folk artists. The grouping was given to the Museum by several collectors. Many of the most talented and respected self-taught African American artistsrepresented by paintings, sculpture, assemblage, and drawingsare included in this inspiring exhibition: Purvis Young, Bill Traylor, Clementine Hunter, Nellie Mae Rowe, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose and Annie Tolliver, Missionary Mary Proctor, Lonnie Holley, Ruby Williams, Roger Rice, Dilmus Hall, and Robert Howell.
255 Beach Drive, NE St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 727/ 896-2667 http://www.fine-arts.org/
Terre Haute
Swope Art Museum Education Gallery African American Images and Artists from the Swope Collection January 13 March 21, 2009
This exhibition is rich in a diversity of artistic approaches and historical perspectives, including works by Jacob Lawrence (19172000), Thomas Shaw (b. 1947) William Edouard Scott (1884- 1964), Richard Hunt (b. 1935), Billy Morrow Jackson (1926 - 2006), John Dowell, Jr. (b. 1941) and others. African American subject matter, by
25 South 7th Street Terre Haute, Indiana 47807 812/ 238-1676 www.swope.org
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Caucasian artists, includes a painting based on a Negro Spiritual by Southern Regionalist John McCrady (1911-1968) and a nude, portrait of his wife, by Champaign-Urbana's Billy Morrow Jackson. All of the works in this exhibition reveal perspectives on race and civil rights that reflects the eras in which they were made and are presented in conjunction with the national celebration of Black History Month.
Washington, DC
Hemphill Fine Arts Selections from the Barnett-Aden Collection: Homecoming Celebration January 31 - March 6, 2009 1515 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 202/ 234-5601 www.hemphillfinearts.com
International Visions-The Gallery Inaugural Exhibition: Preston Sampson, Charly Palmer, Roy Lewis January 18 February 28, 2009
Preston Sampson creates Forty Four Portraits of Barack Obama. Mixed media artist, Charly Palmer, takes the viewer on a journey 40 Years: 1968-2008, and Roy Lewis, photographer, revisits Africa with, Festac Revisted 1977.
2629 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20008 202/ 234-5112 www.inter-visions.com Intvisions@aol.com
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum Jubilee: African American Celebration On view through September 20, 2009
Jubilee examines historical and contemporary African American holidays and celebrations from around the country. They are presented through images of captured moments throughout the years, along with treasured artifacts, costumes, documents, music, video and interviews.
1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC 20020 202/ 633-4820 www.anacostia.si.edu ACMinfo@si.edu
Winston-Salem
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Diggs Gallery Charles Searles: Universal Reflections of Color and Rhythm On view through March 21, 2009
Searles work reflects the universal rhythms of human nature; they are bold, expressive, and celebratory of global cultures. The influence of dance and music as universal languages is evident throughout his colorful canvases and often larger than life sculptures."
Diggs Gallery is located on the lower level of the 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
February
Annapolis
Banneker-Douglass Museum Soul Sanctuary: Images of the African American Worship Experience February 1- April 18, 2009
Renowned photographer Jason Miccolo Johnson captures an intimate look at the African American worship experience through the use of black and white photography. Organizing the exhibition into six themes beginning with Preparation and ending with Benediction, Johnson celebrates the images associated with the traditional African American church while looking at the contemporary church setting. A catalog accompanies this exhibition.
Banneker-Douglass Museum 84 Franklin Street Annapolis, Maryland 21401 410/ 216-6180 www.bdmuseum.com BDMPrograms@goci.state.md.us
Atlanta
Hammonds House Museum Steve Prince: I Know It Was The Blood February 8 April 12, 2009 503 Peeples Street, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30310 404/ 612-0500 www.hammondshouse.org info@hammondshouse.org
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High Museum of Art The Treasure of Ulysses Davis On view through April 5, 2009
The Treasure of Ulysses Davis, which was organized in collaboration with the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation of Savannah, Georgia, will feature approximately 115 works including representative works from every genre in which Davis worked: portraits of U.S. and African leaders, religious images, patriotic works, carvings influenced by African forms, fantasy, flora and fauna, love, humor, abstract decorative objects and utilitarian objects such as canes and furniture. The exhibition will feature Davis's best-known artwork, a series of 40 carved busts of all the U.S. Presidents through George H. W. Bush from the KingTisdell Cottage Foundation collection. Other highlights include a moving depiction of Jesus on the Cross, from the High's permanent collection. A range of rarely seen carvings from private collections will also be on view. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Showcase and Tell: Treasures from the Spelman College Permanent Collection On view through May 16, 2009
Baltimore
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture Lift Every Voice: Portraits of African American Musicians by Russ Moss On view through March 8, 2009
This exhibition features black and white photographs of Baltimores African American musicians. The selected photographs were originally created for Sounds & Stories: The Musical Life of Maryland's African American Communities, an oral history project developed by the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Grants from the Maryland Historical Trust and the Maryland Humanities Council enabled the Peabody to
830 East Pratt Street Baltimore, Maryland 21202 443/ 263-1800 www.africanamericanculture.org emailus@maamc.org
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record the memories of the musicians. Mosss candid portraits present a visual legacy of their lives in music.
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture

Sisters, Soldiers: Black Women and the Modern Military
February 20 June 14, 2009

African American women have played a role in every war effort in United States history. Sister, Soldiers examines the past and present military service of black women, from the Civil War to the War on Terror. After placing black women as soldiers within a broad historical context, the thematic panels of the exhibition highlight the impact of race and gender issues on military service as well as the breakthrough moments in the history of that service. Over the last forty years, the roles available to black women in the military have shifted dramatically. This exhibition offers perspective on todays African American women within the present conflicts in which the nation is engaged and the sacrifices that some have made in the line of duty.
The Walters Art Museum Portraits Re/Examined: A Dawoud Bey Project On view through February 16, 2009
This exhibition features photographs by celebrated American artist Dawoud Bey, who for the past several years has created portraits of young people challenging stereotypes about urban youth. During Beys artist-in-residency project, the artist collaborated with 12 teenagers from several Baltimore-area public, private, and home schools in a summer workshop that began with an exploration of how race, class and identity have been addressed in portraiture throughout art history. The Walters collection became the basis for discussions about museum practice, its role in society and the role of contemporary art in museums with historical collections. The resulting focus exhibition Portraits Re/Examined: A Dawoud Bey Project, curated by Bey and the teens, features 10
600 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 410/ 547-9000 http://www.thewalters.org/ info@thewalters.org
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photographic portraits by Bey, juxtaposed with paintings, drawings, and portrait miniatures from the Walters collection to create a unique dialogue.
Brooklyn
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) Johannesburg to New York On view through May 17, 2009
Chicago
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G. R. NNamdi Gallery Chicago Gregory Coates: Permission February 6 - April 3, 2009 The artist, Gregory Coates, works out of
necessity and positions himself between painting and sculpture, giving himself permission to take risks in the process of making art.
110 North Peoria Chicago, Illinois 60607 312/ 563-9240 www.grnnamdi.com
Gallery Guichard Milton Bowens: Recent Works On view through March 31, 2009
Museum of Science and Industry West Pavilion Black Creativity 2009: Juried Art Exhibition On view through March 1, 2009
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Spertus Museum A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund February 8August 16, 2009
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 will include more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-two Rosenwald fellows, as well as a selection of documentary and archival materials. Artists include: Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies Spertus Museum 610 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60605 312/ 322-1773 http://www.spertus.edu/museum/index.php museum@spertus.edu
Cleveland
The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University Main Gallery Each in Their Own Voice: African American Artists in Cleveland, 1970 2005 On view through March 7, 2009
This exhibition is a collaborative project
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between Cleveland State University, the Cleveland Artists Foundation, and the East Cleveland Public Library. An exhibition of 24 prominent African American artists, active in Cleveland between 1970 and 2005, were selected by a community advisory panel. An exhibition catalog and on-line oral histories of the artists document the show. The following artists are included in the exhibition: Anna Arnold, Lawrence Baker, Robert Banks, Jr., Cushmere Bell, Alfred Bright, Moe Brooker, Malcolm Brown, David Buttram, Johnny Coleman, Dexter Davis, Kevin Everson, Curlee Raven Holton, Miller Horns, Mark Howard, Beni Kosh, Michaelangelo Lovelace, D. Anthony Mahone, John L. Moore, Virgie Patton-Ezelle, Charles Pinckney, Angelica Pozo, Charles Salle, Jr., Kevin Snipes, Nelson Stevens, and Reverend Albert Wagner. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
College Park
The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art February 18 May 29, 2009
The strength of the Thompsons collecting process is their considered attention to artists who have typically not been recognized in the traditional narratives of African American art. In addition to the acknowledged masters, the Thompsons have collected works by artists who have been labeled emerging, unknown, outsider, eccentric, vernacular, regional and more. The result is a collection that redefines the landscape of American art, offering a more in-depth, inclusive understanding of African American artists and their aesthetic and social concerns. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
1214 Cole Student Activity Building University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742 301/ 314-2615 driskellcenter.umd.edu/ driskellcenter@umd.edu
Detroit
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As the first national traveling exhibition jointly developed by the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Portrait Gallery, it explores photographys role in shaping public identity and individual concepts of race and socioeconomic status over the past 150 years. The exhibitions title was inspired by the cry of a Maryland slave, Henry Highland Garnet (1815 1882), who escaped north, became an abolitionist and spoke the phrase that gives the show its title: Strike for your lives and liberties. Rather die freemen than live to be slaves. Let your motto be resistance. Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
Flint
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Flint Institute of Arts Temporary Exhibition Gallery Beyond the Frame: African American Comic Book Artists On view through April 26, 2009
Beyond the Frame: African American Comic Book Artists presents the work of African American artists working in commercial, self-published, and web-based comic book and graphic novel genres. The exhibition will reflect a cross-section of artists, some well established, others emerging and active in new areas of publication, such as Internet-based web comic art. Beyond the Frame explores the styles and subject matter of artists working in the commercial sector, as well as those whose work emphasizes culturally relevant themes of racial identity, family life, hip-hop culture, and African American history.
Hampton
Hampton University Museum Common Ground, Uncommon Vision: Four Howard University Trained Artists February 9 August 8, 2009
Over the last eight decades Howard University has established an important place for itself in the art world as a fertile training ground for artists and scholars. Common Ground, Uncommon Vision, celebrates that evolving tradition by bringing together a group of Howard University trained exhibiting artists who also teach. The participating artists are Kwabena Ampofo-Anti, Rudolph and Carolyn Mendes, Gina Lewis and Richard Ward. The exhibit features over thirty works executed in a variety of media. While Common Ground, Uncommon Vision artists are unique in their artistic inspirations and processes, they share a common training and a common dedication to an aesthetic and intellectual ideal. It is an ideal that they pursue in their own work, and seek to instill in the students that they teach.
Huntington Building Hampton, Virginia 23668 757/727-5308 www.hamptonu.edu/museum Vanessa.Thaxton-Ward@Hamptonu.edu
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Hartford
The Amistad Center for Art and Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Lincoln: Man, Myth and Memory February 12 - April 26, 2009
In celebration of the Lincoln's Bicentennial, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture examines Lincoln's reflection in Black America with the exhibition Lincoln: Man, Myth, and Memory. With material drawn from The Amistad Center's historical collection as well as loans from contemporary artists, the exhibition explores Lincoln's role in the Civil War, his postassassination emergence as a national celebrity, and the president's place in African American public memory.
Los Angeles
California African American Museum (CAAM) A Dream Realized On view through March 1, 2009
Annually, CAAM celebrates the life and dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a themed photo exhibition reflecting his commitment to the betterment of life for all people. This years installation is expanded to incorporate the dream come true campaign of Barack Obama to be the 44th President of the United States. The timely convergence of this historic event and our countrys annual recognition of Kings extraordinary imprint present a unique opportunity for imagery symbolic of a dream realized for all of us.
600 State Drive Exposition Park Los Angeles, California 90037 213/ 744-7432 www.caamuseum.org kparker@caamuseum.org
Laband Art Gallery Gallery 32 and Its Circle: Los Angeles African American Art Community in the 1960s and 70s On view through March 22, 2009
This exhibition will survey the rich, but much forgotten, history of Los Angeles Gallery 32. Dating from 1968 until 1970, Gallery 32 was one of the few art spaces that exhibited emerging African American artists and is
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significant for its exhibitions of such artists as David Hammons, Betye Saar, Alison Saar, Timothy Washington, and Emory Douglas. The history of Gallery 32 offers a unique view of the vibrant Los Angeles art scene of the period, exposing the diversity of the regions contemporary art practices. This unprecedented exhibition will feature many of the actual works exhibited during the gallerys three-year existence, as well as representative works from that time period by artists associated with the gallery. The exhibition will present paintings, sculptures, drawings and assemblages along with a selection of gallery announcements, photographs and other gallery materials to add insight into the life of the gallery.
Louisville
Gallery Actors Theatre of Louisville 15th Annual African American Art Exhibition On view through February 28, 2009
This exhibition is an exuberant array of work by local and regional artists, ranging from sculpture in various media to unique mixed media collages and batik to evocative paintings and photography.
316 West Main Street Louisville, Kentucky 40202-4218 502/ 584-1265 www.actorstheatre.org/visit_gallery.htm lhankins@actorstheatre.org
Miami

Color All Around features 42 original cutpaper collages from picture books illustrated by artist Adjoa J. Burrowes. Burrowes
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combines her expertise as graphic designer with skillful use of collage and mixed media. Her colorful illustrations pop with exuberant cut-paper figures, organic shapes, and angular forms. Multiple illustrations from the books Grandma's Purple Flowers, My Steps, and Destiny's Gift are included in the show. Displays of preliminary drawings, model photos, and editorial comments introduce visitors to the progression of an illustrated story from initial concept to the finished book.
Middlebury
Middlebury College Museum of Art Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past February 13 April 19, 2009 Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past is organized Middlebury College Mahaney Center for the Arts Museum of Art Middlebury, Vermont 05753 802/ 443-5007 http://museum.middlebury.edu/ exhibitions/upcoming/
around the gift to the museum of Kara Walkers 2005 Harpers Illustrated History of the Civil War (Annotated), a portfolio of 15 offset lithographs. The exhibition features artists who use the print medium to revisit and reinterpret historical conflicts. The works on view, all based on printed sources that the artists readily acknowledge, demonstrate a rich mix of contemporary printmaking strategies and techniques. Many address themselves to the issue of race, and the exhibition explores that general topic in historical perspective, ranging from the Age of Enlightenment to the present day. In addition to Walker, some of the other artists include: Enrique Chagoya, Ellen Gallagher, Glenn Ligon, and Adrian Piper.
Montgomery
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum February 7 through April 12, 2009 Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park One Museum Drive Montgomery, Alabama 36117 334/ 240-4333 www.mmfa.org
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This exhibition features textiles, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by contemporary African American artists. From vibrant quilts and weathervanes to provocative assemblages and paintings, this wide-ranging exhibition explores the artistic expressions of self-taught African American artists from the rural South and the urban North. Ancestry and Innovation includes works of art by an elder generation of creators, such as David Butler, Sam Doyle, Bessie Harvey, and Clementine Hunter; by contemporary masters such as Thornton Dial, Sr. and Thornton Dial, Jr.; and by emerging artists such as Kevin Sampson and Willie LeRoy Elliot. A number of the artists represented in the exhibition are Alabama natives, including quilters Leola Pettway, Lureca Outland, Mozell Benson and Mary Maxtion. The ongoing contribution of black artists to the kaleidoscope of American cultural and visual experience is the core of the exhibition.
museuminfo@mmfa.org
New Orleans
New Orleans Museum of Art Ella West Freeman Gallery Frederick J. Brown: New Portraits of Jazz Greats February 8 April 26, 2009
The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Frederick J. Brown: New Portraits of Jazz Greats, an exhibition of paintings depicting 20th century musical giants including the likes of Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday. Among other legends included are Thelonius Monk, New Orleans native Sidney Bechet, Ray Charles and Jelly Roll Morton. This latest series was commissioned by Mr. and Mrs. James Flach as a promised gift to the Museum. In a departure from his figurative work, Brown also has created a unique abstract composition, The Origins of the Blues, as an introduction to the series.
One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park New Orleans, Louisiana 70124 504/ 659-4100 www.noma.org
Stella Jones Gallery Elizabeth Catlett: Drawings, Six Decades
201 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70170 504/ 568-9050
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On view through February 28, 2009
www.stellajonesgallery.com jones6941@aol.com
New York
Jack Shainman Gallery Hank Willis Thomas: Pitch Blackness February 12 March 14, 2009 513 West 20th New York, New York 10011 212/ 645-1701 www.jackshainman.com info@jackshainman.com katie@jackshainman.com
Jack Shainman Gallery Nick Cave: Recent Soundsuits On view through February 7, 2009
This exhibition of recent Soundsuits by Nick Cave is the second solo exhibition at the Shainman Gallery. It is comprised of a diverse selection of the highly imaginative, mixedmedia, wearable sculptures, Soundsuits, for which Cave has become well-known. Soundsuits, named for the sounds made when the sculptures are worn, are as reminiscent of African and religious ceremonial costumes as they are of haute couture. A multitude of references bring to mind not only disparate cultural traditions but they also highlight Caves diverse background and artistic training. Cave studied and danced with Alvin Ailey and created his own clothing line which he featured in a shop he opened and ran for ten years. He is as interested in fashion and cultural, ritualistic and ceremonial concepts as he is in politics, a domain that has always been part of his work as demonstrated by acts of collecting and reconfiguring elements and concealing the identity, race, and gender, of those who wear his suits. Rendering them faceless and anonymous the suits help these individuals transcend the political realm in order to enter the realm of dreams and fantasy.
513 West 20th New York, New York 10011 212/ 645-1701 www.jackshainman.com info@jackshainman.com katie@jackshainman.com
June Kelly Gallery LeRoy Henderson: Mermaids and Masquerades On view through February 24, 2009
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Mermaids and Masquerades, an exhibition of dramatic photographs by LeRoy Henderson that captures the joy, the antics and the pageantry of Brooklyns legendary parades and carnivals. Henderson describes himself as a people watcher. His images, in color as well as highcontrast black and white, come from separate bodies of work amassed over four decades of photographing two annual historic events -the West Indian-American Day Carnival, which brings together people from different island nations, and the Mermaid Parade, an early summer spectacle that pays tribute to Coney Islands history and mythology and its longago Mardi Gras.

Shinique Smith will be the second artist to activate the Project Space with an installation designed and executed especially for the
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gallery. No stranger to the Studio Museum, Smith participated in our emerging artist exhibition Frequency (2005), and is known for her multimedia practice including sculptures made of clothing, collage on walls and paper, painting and drawing. Smiths diverse art treads the lines between accumulation and loss, containment and scatter, legibility and scribble. Smith will transform the walls of the Project Space with a surprising use of text and fabric that will disrupt the traditional definition of mural.
Oakland
Joyce Gordon Gallery Main Gallery Sweet Dreams: Ben Hazard On view through March 1, 2009
Twenty new exquisitely executed charcoal drawings, will express the power of life as Ben Hazard sees it. This particular series of charcoal drawings are powerful, social-realistic statements reflecting the time, place and circumstances that both express and evoke emotions.
406 14th Street Oakland, California 94612 510/ 465-8928 www.joycegordongallery.com jvbgg@sbcglobal.net
Joyce Gordon Gallery Downstairs Photography Gallery Reflections: D. Michael Cheers On view through March 1, 2009 This photography exhibit will feature images from documentary photographer and educator, D. Michael Cheers, whose critical photojournalism spans more than three decades.
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Museum of Art Harlem Renaissance February 5 April 19, 2009
Explore African American art of the 1920s, 1930s, and its lasting legacy in the exhibition Harlem Renaissance. The exhibit will examine the vogue of Harlem in the 1920s, the art of the New Negro, and the artistic legacy of the
415 Couch Drive Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102 405/ 236-3100 www.okcmoa.com/
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1920s and 1930s. It will include paintings, sculptures, and photographs by artists such as Richmond Barth, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, James VanDerZee, and others. Harlem Renaissance delves into the diversity of influences upon the period, from European modernism to African art to culture and history. It explores how the work of African American artists during the 1920s and 1930s relates to and differentiates from larger developments in American art.
Philadelphia
African-American Museum in Philadelphia Hidden Treasures: Art Collected by Young African Americans On view through March 8, 2009 701 Arch Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 215/ 574-0380 http://www.aampmuseum.org/ info@aampmuseum.org
This exhibit includes thirteen examples by leading Southern quiltmakers. The collection was formed between 1980 and 1983 while Ms. Torrey was conducting fieldwork on African American quiltmaking with Maude Southwell Wahlman. Among its highlights are an appliqud word quilt by the Mississippi artist Sarah Mary Taylor (born 1916) and one of her hand quilts, a version commissioned for the film The Color Purple.
Sande Webster Gallery Main Gallery John Mc Daniel: Leaping Boundaries On view through February 2, 2009
McDaniel recently shifted from painting on
2006 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 215/ 636-9003 www.artswg@aol.com
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canvas to painting on sheets of metal. In Leaping Boundaries his two-dimensional artistic vision has developed into painted constructions of overlapping stainless steel sheets, perforated metal, wire, and brass rods. The combination of overlapping metal, variation in surfaces, and three-dimensional lines create very cryptic constructions.
Woodmere Art Museum In Search of Missing Masters: The Lewis Tanner Moore Collection of African American Art On view through February 22, 2009
In Search of Missing Masters is the second in Woodmeres series of exhibitions highlighting distinguished private collections of art from the greater Philadelphia region. Lewis Tanner Moore, a descendant of the famed 19th-century African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner, began his art collection some three decades ago, with a small number of paintings handed down to him from his father, a prominent Philadelphia attorney. From the outset, Mr. Moore concentrated on twentieth-century art and on developing personal connections with the artists he was collecting. With a devotees zeal, he pursued not just the well-known names but also the unheralded masters whose works and achievements had slipped into obscurity. Woodmeres exhibition is composed of more than one-hundred paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by some four to five dozen artists. Included in the ensemble are such well-known artists as Henry Ossawa Tanner, Allan Freelon, Dox Thrash, Selma Burke, Charles White, and Romare Bearden; local figures such as Raymond Steth, Humbert Howard, Louis Sloan, Ellen Powell Tiberino, Moe Brooker, Barbara Bullock, and Charles Burwell; as well as a number of talented and influential if not yet well-known artists whose works will be presented here for the first time in a museum. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Woodmere Art Museum 9201 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19118 215/ 247-0476 www.woodmereartmuseum.org/
Richmond
Anderson Gallery 3rd Floor Virginia Commonwealth University Anderson Gallery
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Beaded Prayers Project On view through March 1, 2009

This project is directed by artist Sonya Clark, Chair of Virginia Commonwealth Universitys Department of Craft/Material Studies. The Beaded Prayers Project is an ongoing collaborative artwork begun in 1999 that now comprises over 4,500 beaded prayers. Inspired by protective amulets made by people in Africa and throughout the world, the beaded prayers represent the participation of individuals from 36 different countries, ranging in age from 6 through 90. Each sealed, embellished packet contains the written wishes, hopes, dreams and prayers of its maker. According to Clark, the diversity of packets is a celebration of the unique contributions each individual has to offer. Artist Talk / Workshop: Thursday, January 29, 2009 from 2:00 5:00 PM.
907 West Franklin Street Richmond, Virginia 23284-2514 804/ 828-1522 http://www.vcu.edu/arts/gallery/ artgallery@vcu.edu
Sacramento
40 Acres Art Gallery African American Currents: Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection On view through March 28, 2009
African American Currents: Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection showcases work from its holdings by some of the leading artists of the African Diaspora. There are over seventy artworks in African American Currents, ranging from paintings and sculptures to photography, prints and mixed media collages. The exhibit is a blend of modern masters such as Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, with contemporary masters as Martin Puryear, Willie Birch, Faith Ringgold and Raymond Saunders; works by artists working outside the mainstream like Minnie Evans and Horace Pippin; and a representation by a younger generation of artists, including Whitfield Lovell, Kevin Cole, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Lorna Simpson.
St. Petersburg
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Terre Haute
Swope Art Museum Education Gallery African American Images and Artists from the Swope Collection On view through March 21, 2009
This exhibition is rich in a diversity of artistic approaches and historical perspectives, including works by Jacob Lawrence (19172000), Thomas Shaw (b. 1947) William Edouard Scott (1884- 1964), Richard Hunt (b. 1935), Billy Morrow Jackson (1926 - 2006), John Dowell Jr. (b. 1941) and others. African American subject matter, by Caucasian artists, includes a painting based on a Negro Spiritual by Southern Regionalist John McCrady (1911-1968) and a nude, portrait of his wife, by Champaign-Urbana's Billy Morrow Jackson. All of the works in this exhibition reveal perspectives on race and civil rights that reflect the eras in which they were made and are presented in conjunction with the national celebration of Black History Month.
Washington, DC
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Hemphill Fine Arts Selections from the Barnett-Aden Collection: Homecoming Celebration On view through March 6, 2009
1515 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 202/ 234-5601 www.hemphillfinearts.com
International Visions-The Gallery Inaugural Exhibition: Preston Sampson, Charly Palmer, Roy Lewis On view through February 28, 2009
Preston Sampson creates Forty Four Portraits of Barack Obama. Mixed media artist, Charly Palmer, takes the viewer on a journey 40 Years: 1968-2008, and Roy Lewis, photographer, revisits Africa with, Festac Revisted 1977.
2629 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20008 202/ 234-5112 www.inter-visions.com Intvisions@aol.com
Parish Gallery - Georgetown Bruce McNeil: Painter, Photographer February 6 28, 2009
1054 31st Street, NW Canal Square Washington, DC 20007 202/ 944-2310 http://www.parishgallery.com/ parishgallery@bigplanet.com 1901 Fort Place, SE Washington, DC 20020 202/ 633-4820 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 The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise On view through November 15, 2009
Constitution Avenue and 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20013 202/ 633-1000 www.nmaahc.si.edu info@si.edu
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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.
Winston-Salem
Diggs Gallery Charles Searles: Universal Reflections of Color and Rhythm On view through March 21, 2009
Diggs Gallery is located on the lower level of the 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
March
Annapolis
Banneker-Douglass Museum Soul Sanctuary: Images of the African American Worship Experience On view through April 18, 2009
Atlanta
Hammonds House Museum Steve Prince: I Know It Was The Blood 503 Peeples Street, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30310 404/ 612-0500
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On view through April 12, 2009
www.hammondshouse.org info@hammondshouse.org
High Museum of Art The Treasure of Ulysses Davis On view through April 5, 2009
The Treasure of Ulysses Davis, which was organized in collaboration with the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation of Savannah, Georgia, will feature approximately 115 works including representative works from every genre in which Davis worked: portraits of U.S. and African leaders, religious images, patriotic works, carvings influenced by African forms, fantasy, flora and fauna, love, humor, abstract decorative objects and utilitarian objects such as canes and furniture. The exhibition will feature Davis's best-known artwork, a series of 40 carved busts of all the U.S. Presidents through George H. W. Bush from the KingTisdell Cottage Foundation collection. Other highlights include a moving depiction of Jesus on the Cross, from the High's permanent collection. A range of rarely seen carvings from private collections will also be on view. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Baltimore
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture Lift Every Voice: Portraits of African American Musicians by Russ Moss On view through March 8, 2009
This exhibition features black and white photographs of Baltimores African American musicians. The selected photographs were
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originally created for Sounds & Stories: The Musical Life of Maryland's African American Communities, an oral history project developed by the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Grants from the Maryland Historical Trust and the Maryland Humanities Council enabled the Peabody to record the memories of the musicians. Mosss candid portraits present a visual legacy of their lives in music.
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture Sisters, Soldiers: Black Women and the Modern Military On view through June 14, 2009
Brooklyn
Johannesburg to New York is the first retrospective of the collaborative work between South African artist Samson Mnisi and New York artist Cannon Hersey. Combining their various perspectives on the changing cultural dynamics of South Africa and its emergence onto the world stage, these artists have created mixed media imagery that is
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socially conscious while also being visually stimulating. Mnisi incorporates ancient Zulu symbolism and rituals with Hersey's captivating photography to give viewers insider and outsider perspectives on contemporary South African societies.
Chicago
G. R. NNamdi Gallery Chicago Gregory Coates: Permission On view through April 3, 2009 The artist, Gregory Coates, works out of
Gallery Guichard Milton Bowens: Recent Works On view through March 31, 2009
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Museum of Science and Industry West Pavilion Black Creativity 2009: Juried Art Exhibition On view through March 1, 2009
Spertus Museum A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund On view through August 16, 2009
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
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support, and will include more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-two Rosenwald fellows, as well as a selection of documentary and archival materials. Artists include: Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Cleveland
The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University Main Gallery Each in Their Own Voice: African American Artists in Cleveland, 1970 2005 On view through March 7, 2009
This exhibition is a collaborative project between Cleveland State University, the Cleveland Artists Foundation, and the East Cleveland Public Library. An exhibition of 24 prominent African American artists, active in Cleveland between 1970 and 2005, were selected by a community advisory panel. An exhibition catalog and on-line oral histories of the artists document the show. The following artists are included in the exhibition: Anna Arnold, Lawrence Baker, Robert Banks, Jr., Cushmere Bell, Alfred Bright, Moe Brooker, Malcolm Brown, David Buttram, Johnny Coleman, Dexter Davis, Kevin Everson, Curlee Raven Holton, Miller Horns, Mark Howard, Beni Kosh, Michaelangelo Lovelace, D. Anthony Mahone, John L. Moore, Virgie Patton-Ezelle, Charles Pinckney, Angelica Pozo, Charles Salle, Jr., Kevin Snipes, Nelson Stevens, and Reverend Albert Wagner. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
College Park
The David C. Driskell Center for the 1214 Cole Student Activity Building
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Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art On view through May 29, 2009
University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742 301/ 314-2615 driskellcenter.umd.edu/ driskellcenter@umd.edu
Detroit
As the first national traveling exhibition jointly developed by the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Portrait Gallery, it explores photographys role in shaping public identity and individual concepts of race and socioeconomic status over the past 150 years. The exhibitions title was inspired by the cry of a Maryland slave, Henry Highland Garnet (1815 1882), who escaped north, became an abolitionist and spoke the phrase that gives the show its title: Strike for your lives and liberties. Rather die freemen than live to be slaves. Let your motto be resistance. Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
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Flint
Beyond the Frame: African American Comic Book Artists presents the work of African American artists working in commercial, self-published, and web-based comic book and graphic novel genres. The exhibition will reflect a cross-section of artists, some well established, others emerging and active in new areas of publication, such as Internet-based web comic art. Beyond the Frame explores the styles and subject matter of artists working in the commercial sector, as well as those whose work emphasizes culturally relevant themes of racial identity, family life, hip-hop culture, and African American history.
Hampton
Hampton University Museum Huntington Building
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Common Ground, Uncommon Vision: Four Howard University Trained Artists On view through August 8, 2009
Hampton, Virginia 23668 757/727-5308 www.hamptonu.edu/museum Vanessa.Thaxton-Ward@Hamptonu.edu
Hartford
The Amistad Center for Art and Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Lincoln: Man, Myth and Memory On view through April 26, 2009
Los Angeles
California African American Museum A Dream Realized On view through March 1, 2009
Annually, CAAM celebrates the life and
600 State Drive Exposition Park Los Angeles, California 90037 213/ 744-7432 www.caamuseum.org
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dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a themed photo exhibition reflecting his commitment to the betterment of life for all people. This years installation is expanded to incorporate the dream come true campaign of Barack Obama to be the 44th President of the United States. The timely convergence of this historic event and our countrys annual recognition of Kings extraordinary imprint present a unique opportunity for imagery symbolic of a dream realized for all of us.
kparker@caamuseum.org
Laband Art Gallery Gallery 32 and Its Circle: Los Angeles African American Art Community in the 1960s and 70s On view through March 22, 2009
This exhibition will survey the rich, but much forgotten, history of Los Angeles Gallery 32. Dating from 1968 until 1970, Gallery 32 was one of the few art spaces that exhibited emerging African American artists and is significant for its exhibitions of such artists as David Hammons, Betye Saar, Alison Saar, Timothy Washington, and Emory Douglas. The history of Gallery 32 offers a unique view of the vibrant Los Angeles art scene of the period, exposing the diversity of the regions contemporary art practices. This unprecedented exhibition will feature many of the actual works exhibited during the gallerys three-year existence, as well as representative works from that time period by artists associated with the gallery. The exhibition will present paintings, sculptures, drawings and assemblages along with a selection of gallery announcements, photographs and other gallery materials to add insight into the life of the gallery.
Miami

Color All Around features 42 original cutpaper collages from picture books illustrated
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by artist Adjoa J. Burrowes. Burrowes combines her expertise as graphic designer with skillful use of collage and mixed media. Her colorful illustrations pop with exuberant cut-paper figures, organic shapes, and angular forms. Multiple illustrations from the books Grandma's Purple Flowers, My Steps, and Destiny's Gift are included in the show. Displays of preliminary drawings, model photos, and editorial comments introduce visitors to the progression of an illustrated story from initial concept to the finished book.
Middlebury
Middlebury College Museum of Art Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past On view through April 19, 2009 Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past is organized
Middlebury College Mahaney Center for the Arts Museum of Art Middlebury, Vermont 05753 802/ 443-5007 http://museum.middlebury.edu/ exhibitions/upcoming/
Montgomery
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park One Museum Drive Montgomery, Alabama 36117 334/ 240-4333
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On view through April 12, 2009

This exhibition features textiles, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by contemporary African American artists. From vibrant quilts and weathervanes to provocative assemblages and paintings, this wide-ranging exhibition explores the artistic expressions of self-taught African American artists from the rural South and the urban North. Ancestry and Innovation includes works of art by an elder generation of creators, such as David Butler, Sam Doyle, Bessie Harvey, and Clementine Hunter; by contemporary masters such as Thornton Dial, Sr. and Thornton Dial, Jr.; and by emerging artists such as Kevin Sampson and Willie LeRoy Elliot. A number of the artists represented in the exhibition are Alabama natives, including quilters Leola Pettway, Lureca Outland, Mozell Benson and Mary Maxtion. The ongoing contribution of black artists to the kaleidoscope of American cultural and visual experience is the core of the exhibition.
www.mmfa.org museuminfo@mmfa.org
Muncie
Minnetrista Cultural Center Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad March 7 May 3, 2009
The stories of the Underground Railroad are some of the most powerful in American history. Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad is an exhibition of 50 paintings, etchings and drawings by Joseph Holston created to capture the essence of the courage and determination required to escape; and to enhance understanding of the condition of slavery and the powerful instinct toward freedom. Color in Freedom is a visual interpretation and expression of a range of human experiences and emotions within the framework of this particular period in American history. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Minnetrista Cultural Center 1200 North Minnetrista Parkway Muncie, Indiana 47303 765/ 282-4848 http://www.minnetrista.net/index.html info@minnetrista.net
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New Orleans
New Orleans Museum of Art Ella West Freeman Gallery Frederick J. Brown: New Portraits of Jazz Greats On view through April 26, 2009
New York
Jack Shainman Gallery Hank Willis Thomas: Pitch Blackness February 12 March 14, 2009 513 West 20th New York, New York 10011 212/ 645-1701 www.jackshainman.com info@jackshainman.com katie@jackshainman.com
Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool was curated by the Nasher Museum (Duke University) and is the career retrospective of the renowned American artist Barkley L. Hendricks. Born in 1945, Hendricks's unique work resides at the nexus of American realism and post-modernism, a space somewhere
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between portraitists Chuck Close and Alex Katz and pioneering black conceptualists David Hammons and Adrian Piper. He is best known for his stunning, life-sized portraits of people of color from the urban northeast. Cool, empowering and sometimes confrontational, Hendricks's artistic privileging of a culturally complex black body has paved the way for today's younger generation of artists. This unprecedented exhibition of Hendricks's paintings includes work from 1964 to the present. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.

Shinique Smith will be the second artist to activate the Project Space with an installation designed and executed especially for the gallery. No stranger to the Studio Museum, Smith participated in our emerging artist exhibition Frequency (2005), and is known for her multimedia practice including sculptures made of clothing, collage on walls and paper, painting and drawing. Smiths diverse art treads the lines between accumulation and loss, containment and scatter, legibility and scribble. Smith will transform the walls of the Project Space with a surprising use of text and fabric that will disrupt the traditional definition of mural.
Oakland
Joyce Gordon Gallery Main Gallery Sweet Dreams: Ben Hazard On view through March 1, 2009
Twenty new exquisitely executed charcoal drawings, will express the power of life as Ben Hazard sees it. This particular series of charcoal drawings are powerful, social-realistic statements reflecting the time, place and circumstances that both express and evoke emotions.
Joyce Gordon Gallery
406 14th Street
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Downstairs Photography Gallery Reflections: D. Michael Cheers On view through March 1, 2009 This photography exhibit will feature images from documentary photographer and educator, D. Michael Cheers, whose critical photojournalism spans more than three decades.
Oakland, California 94612 510/ 465-8928 www.joycegordongallery.com jvbgg@sbcglobal.net
Joyce Gordon Gallery Main Gallery I nt er se c t i o na l i t y of Si s t er s March 6 April 1, 2009

This exhibit is an all-women group show.
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Museum of Art Harlem Renaissance On view through April 19, 2009
Explore African American art of the 1920s, 1930s, and its lasting legacy in the exhibition Harlem Renaissance. The exhibit will examine the vogue of Harlem in the 1920s, the art of the New Negro, and the artistic legacy of the 1920s and 1930s. It will include paintings, sculptures, and photographs by artists such as Richmond Barth, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, James VanDerZee, and others. Harlem Renaissance delves into the diversity of influences upon the period, from European modernism to African art to culture and history. It explores how the work of African American artists during the 1920s and 1930s relates to and differentiates from larger developments in American art.
Philadelphia
African-American Museum in Philadelphia Hidden Treasures: Art Collected by Young African Americans On view through March 8, 2009 701 Arch Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106 215/ 574-0380 http://www.aampmuseum.org/
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This exhibit includes thirteen examples by leading Southern quiltmakers. The collection was formed between 1980 and 1983 while Ms. Torrey was conducting fieldwork on African American quiltmaking with Maude Southwell Wahlman. Among its highlights are an appliqud word quilt by the Mississippi artist Sarah Mary Taylor (born 1916) and one of her hand quilts, a version commissioned for the film The Color Purple.
Richmond
Anderson Gallery 3rd Floor Beaded Prayers Project On view through March 1, 2009
This project is directed by artist Sonya Clark, Chair of Virginia Commonwealth Universitys Department of Craft/Material Studies. The Beaded Prayers Project is an ongoing collaborative artwork begun in 1999 that now comprises over 4,500 beaded prayers. Inspired by protective amulets made by people in Africa and throughout the world, the beaded prayers represent the participation of individuals from 36 different countries, ranging in age from 6 through 90. Each sealed, embellished packet contains the written wishes, hopes, dreams and prayers of its maker. According to Clark, the diversity of packets is
Virginia Commonwealth University Anderson Gallery 907 West Franklin Street Richmond, Virginia 23284-2514 804/ 828-1522 http://www.vcu.edu/arts/gallery/ artgallery@vcu.edu
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a celebration of the unique contributions each individual has to offer. Artist Talk / Workshop: Thursday, January 29, 2009 from 2:00 5:00 PM.
Sacramento
40 Acres Art Gallery African American Currents: Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection On view through March 28, 2009
African American Currents: Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection showcases work from its holdings by some of the leading artists of the African Diaspora. There are over seventy artworks in African American Currents, ranging from paintings and sculptures to photography, prints and mixed media collages. The exhibit is a blend of modern masters such as Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, with contemporary masters as Martin Puryear, Willie Birch, Faith Ringgold and Raymond Saunders; works by artists working outside the mainstream like Minnie Evans and Horace Pippin; and a representation by a younger generation of artists, including Whitfield Lovell, Kevin Cole, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Lorna Simpson.
St. Petersburg
In celebration of recent donations to the collection, the Museum presents a selection of remarkable artworks by African American folk artists. The grouping was given to the Museum by several collectors. Many of the most talented and respected self-taught African American artistsrepresented by paintings, sculpture, assemblage, and drawingsare included in this inspiring exhibition: Purvis Young, Bill Traylor, Clementine Hunter, Nellie Mae Rowe, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose and
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Annie Tolliver, Missionary Mary Proctor, Lonnie Holley, Ruby Williams, Roger Rice, Dilmus Hall, and Robert Howell.
San Francisco
Museum of the African Diaspora Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits March 21 June 14, 2009
As the first national traveling exhibition jointly developed by the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Portrait Gallery, it explores photographys role in shaping public identity and individual concepts of race and socioeconomic status over the past 150 years. The exhibition consists of 70 modern prints selected from the National Portrait Gallerys collections highlighting 150 years of African American resistance in the U.S. The exhibitions title was inspired by the cry of a Maryland slave, Henry Highland Garnet (1815 1882), who escaped north, became an abolitionist and spoke the phrase that gives the show its title: Strike for your lives and liberties. Rather die freemen than live to be slaves. Let your motto be resistance. Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
685 Mission Street (at Third) San Francisco, California 94105 415/ 358-7200 http://www.moadsf.org/
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts YBCA Galleries Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth March 28 - July 5, 2009
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth features Caves shimmering soundsuit sculptures. The soundsuits seem poised to explode into dance and ritual while exploring issues of ceremony, identity and myth. The many layers of meaning woven into the physically beautiful soundsuits intrigue, overwhelm, challenge and seduce the audience. This exhibition represents the largest scale presentation of Caves career. As many as thirty soundsuits
701 Mission Street @ 3rd San Francisco, California 94103-3138 415/ 978-2700 http://www.ybca.org/exhibitions/
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surround the sphere on mannequins creating a space evocative of sacred and ritual space. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Swarthmore
The List Gallery Sonya Clark: Combs, Pieces, and Parts March 5 April 4, 2009
Sonya Clark listens to the stories held in objects and, lately, unbreakable, fine-toothed, pocket combs have her ear. Each turn in plot, brings questions and an urge to respond with a piece. As cultural critic, Bill Gaskins said in a review of her work, Hairdressing is the primordial fiber art. And so it is that the reed on a loom and the pocket comb are siblings. Clark uses combs the way a weaver manipulates threads in a tapestry: multiplicity in service of the whole. There is a resonance between an artwork made of combs, a hairstyle piled high, and a woven cloth. Artists Lecture: Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 4:30 P.M.
The List Gallery Department of Art Swarthmore College 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 610/ 328-8488 http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/ art/Gallery/index.html apackar1@swarthmore.edu
Terre Haute
Swope Art Museum Education Gallery African American Images and Artists from the Swope Collection On view through March 21, 2009
This exhibition is rich in a diversity of artistic approaches and historical perspectives, including works by Jacob Lawrence (19172000), Thomas Shaw (b. 1947) William Edouard Scott (1884- 1964), Richard Hunt (b. 1935), Billy Morrow Jackson (1926 - 2006), John Dowell Jr. (b. 1941) and others. African American subject matter, by Caucasian artists, includes a painting based on a Negro Spiritual by Southern Regionalist John McCrady (1911-1968) and a nude, portrait of his wife, by Champaign-Urbana's Billy Morrow Jackson. All of the works in this exhibition reveal perspectives on race and civil
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rights that reflect the eras in which they were made and are presented in conjunction with the national celebration of Black History Month.
Washington, DC
Hemphill Fine Arts Selections from the Barnett-Aden Collection: Homecoming Celebration On view through March 6, 2009 1515 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 202/ 234-5601 www.hemphillfinearts.com
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Gallery, On level 2 at the National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise On view through November 15, 2009 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.
Winston-Salem
Diggs Gallery Charles Searles: Universal Reflections of Color and Rhythm Diggs Gallery is located on the lower level of the OKelly Library Winston-Salem State University
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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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Annapolis
Banneker-Douglass Museum Soul Sanctuary: Images of the African American Worship Experience On view through April 18, 2009
Atlanta
Hammonds House Museum Steve Prince: I Know It Was The Blood On view through April 12, 2009 503 Peeples Street, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30310 404/ 612-0500 www.hammondshouse.org info@hammondshouse.org
High Museum of Art Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell April 21 August 2, 2009
This exhibition is organized by the Driskell Center and highlights for the first time the
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prints of the renowned Distinguished University of Maryland Professor of Art, Emeritus, David C. Driskell, an artist, art historian, collector, curator, and educator and one of the most recognized and respected names in the world of African American art and culture. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
High Museum of Art The Treasure of Ulysses Davis On view through April 5, 2009 The Treasure of Ulysses Davis, which was organized in collaboration with the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation of Savannah, Georgia, will feature approximately 115 works including representative works from every genre in which Davis worked: portraits of U.S. and African leaders, religious images, patriotic works, carvings influenced by African forms, fantasy, flora and fauna, love, humor, abstract decorative objects and utilitarian objects such as canes and furniture. The exhibition will feature Davis's best-known artwork, a series of 40 carved busts of all the U.S. Presidents through George H. W. Bush from the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation collection. Other highlights include a moving depiction of Jesus on the Cross, from the High's permanent collection. A range of rarely seen carvings from private collections will also be on view.
Baltimore
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Brooklyn
Chicago
Chicago Public Library Woodson Regional Library
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The Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of African American History and Literature Exhibit Gallery To See Reality in a New Light: The Art and Activism of Marion Perkins On view through December 31, 2009
9525 S. Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60628 312/745-2080 http://www.chipublib.org/ eventsprog/programs/exhibits.php
G. R. NNamdi Gallery Chicago Gregory Coates: Permission On view through April 3, 2009 The artist, Gregory Coates, works out of
DePaul University Museum Main Gallery Double Exposure: African American Before and Behind the Camera April 16 June 14, 2009
Double Exposure presents historic early photographs side by side with photo-based works by contemporary African American artists. While early photographers pushed the boundaries of the medium to represent a Black world of hope and dignity, contemporary artists celebrate and extend that legacy, engaging in a dialogue about the nature of memory and photographic representation in relation to personal history.
2350 North Kenmore Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60614 773/ 325-7506 http://museums.depaul.edu/artwebsite/
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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 Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art On view through May 29, 2009
The strength of the Thompsons collecting process is their considered attention to artists who have typically not been recognized in the traditional narratives of African American art. In addition to the acknowledged masters, the Thompsons have collected works by artists
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who have been labeled emerging, unknown, outsider, eccentric, vernacular, regional and more. The result is a collection that redefines the landscape of American art, offering a more in-depth, inclusive understanding of African American artists and their aesthetic and social concerns. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Detroit
Evanston
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Main Gallery Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks April 24 June 28, 2009
Gordon Parks (19122006) began working as a professional photographer in the 1940s, documenting the urban and rural poor in the United States for the Farm Security Administration and other organizations. Parks served as a staff photographer for Life magazine from 1945 to 1975, capturing images from all walks of American society,
Northwestern University Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, Illinois 60208-2410 847/ 491-4000 www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu block-museum@northwestern.edu
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from the struggle for civil rights to the glamour of Hollywood stars. The 73 photographs featured in Bare Witness, organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, were personally selected by Parks as his most powerful imagery. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Flint
Beyond the Frame: African American Comic Book Artists presents the work of African American artists working in commercial, self-published, and web-based comic book and graphic novel genres. The exhibition will reflect a cross-section of artists, some well established, and others emerging and active in new areas of publication, such as Internet-based web comic art. Beyond the Frame explores the styles and subject matter of artists working in the commercial sector, as well as those whose work emphasizes culturally relevant themes of racial identity, family life, hip-hop culture, and African American history.
Hampton
Hampton University Museum Common Ground, Uncommon Vision: Four Howard University Trained Artists On view through August 8, 2009
Over the last eight decades Howard University has established an important place for itself in the art world as a fertile training ground for artists and scholars. Common Ground, Uncommon Vision, celebrates that evolving
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tradition by bringing together a group of Howard University trained exhibiting artists who also teach. The participating artists are Kwabena Ampofo-Anti, Rudolph and Carolyn Mendes, Gina Lewis and Richard Ward. The exhibit features over thirty works executed in a variety of media. While Common Ground, Uncommon Vision artists are unique in their artistic inspirations and processes, they share a common training and a common dedication to an aesthetic and intellectual ideal. It is an ideal that they pursue in their own work, and seek to instill in the students that they teach.
Hartford
The Amistad Center for Art and Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Lincoln: Man, Myth and Memory On view through April 26, 2009
Jackson
The Mississippi Museum of Art Public Corridor American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bong, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barth April 11 July 12, 2009 380 South Lamar Street Jackson, Mississippi 39201 601/ 960-1515 www.msmuseumart.org
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Coast seeks to illuminate the intersection of these important artists lives and work and to further examine the history of the abundantly creative region of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This traveling exhibition is organized by the Mississippi Arts Commission and is underwritten by the National Endowment for
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the Arts. It is the second in a series highlighting the cultural contributions of historic Mississippi personas in art, music, literature, theater, and dance. This entry is to highlight the work of Richmond Barth. A publication on the artists and artworks in the exhibition is available.
Middlebury
Middlebury College Museum of Art Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past On view through April 19, 2009 Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past is organized
Middlebury College Mahaney Center for the Arts Museum of Art Middlebury, Vermont 05753 802/ 443-5007 http://museum.middlebury.edu/ exhibitions/upcoming/
Montgomery
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum On view through April 12, 2009
This exhibition features textiles, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by contemporary African American artists. From
Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park One Museum Drive Montgomery, Alabama 36117 334/ 240-4333 www.mmfa.org museuminfo@mmfa.org
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vibrant quilts and weathervanes to provocative assemblages and paintings, this wide-ranging exhibition explores the artistic expressions of self-taught African American artists from the rural South and the urban North. Ancestry and Innovation includes works of art by an elder generation of creators, such as David Butler, Sam Doyle, Bessie Harvey, and Clementine Hunter; by contemporary masters such as Thornton Dial, Sr. and Thornton Dial, Jr.; and by emerging artists such as Kevin Sampson and Willie LeRoy Elliot. A number of the artists represented in the exhibition are Alabama natives, including quilters Leola Pettway, Lureca Outland, Mozell Benson and Mary Maxtion. The ongoing contribution of black artists to the kaleidoscope of American cultural and visual experience is the core of the exhibition.
Muncie
Minnetrista Cultural Center Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad On view through May 3, 2009
New Orleans
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New Orleans Museum of Art Ella West Freeman Gallery Frederick J. Brown: New Portraits of Jazz Greats On view through April 26, 2009
New York
June Kelly Gallery Elizabeth Catlett: Recent Sculpture April 3 May 2, 2009 591 Broadway New York, New York 10012 212/ 226-1660 www.junekellygallery.com
Oakland
Joyce Gordon Gallery Main Gallery I nt er se c t i o na l i t y of Si s t er s On view through April 1, 2009
This exhibit is an all-women group show.
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Museum of Art Harlem Renaissance On view through April 19, 2009
Explore African American art of the 1920s, 1930s, and its lasting legacy in the exhibition
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Harlem Renaissance. The exhibit will examine the vogue of Harlem in the 1920s, the art of the New Negro, and the artistic legacy of the 1920s and 1930s. It will include paintings, sculptures, and photographs by artists such as Richmond Barth, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, James VanDerZee, and others. Harlem Renaissance delves into the diversity of influences upon the period, from European modernism to African art to culture and history. It explores how the work of African American artists during the 1920s and 1930s relates to and differentiates from larger developments in American art.
St. Petersburg
San Francisco
Museum of the African Diaspora Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits On view through June 14, 2009
As the first national traveling exhibition jointly developed by the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Portrait Gallery, it explores photographys role in
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shaping public identity and individual concepts of race and socioeconomic status over the past 150 years. The exhibition consists of 70 modern prints selected from the National Portrait Gallerys collections highlighting 150 years of African American resistance in the U.S. The exhibitions title was inspired by the cry of a Maryland slave, Henry Highland Garnet (1815 1882), who escaped north, became an abolitionist and spoke the phrase that gives the show its title: Strike for your lives and liberties. Rather die freemen than live to be slaves. Let your motto be resistance. Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts YBCA Galleries Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth On view through July 5, 2009
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth features Caves shimmering soundsuit sculptures. The soundsuits seem poised to explode into dance and ritual while exploring issues of ceremony, identity and myth. The many layers of meaning woven into the physically beautiful soundsuits intrigue, overwhelm, challenge and seduce the audience. This exhibition represents the largest scale presentation of Caves career. As many as thirty soundsuits surround the sphere on mannequins creating a space evocative of sacred and ritual space. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Swarthmore
The List Gallery Sonya Clark: Combs, Pieces, and Parts On view through April 4, 2009 The List Gallery Department of Art Swarthmore College 500 College Avenue Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 610/ 328-8488
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Sonya Clark listens to the stories held in objects and, lately, unbreakable, fine-toothed, pocket combs have her ear. Each turn in plot, brings questions and an urge to respond with a piece. As cultural critic, Bill Gaskins said in a review of her work, Hairdressing is the primordial fiber art. And so it is that the reed on a loom and the pocket comb are siblings. Clark uses combs the way a weaver manipulates threads in a tapestry: multiplicity in service of the whole. There is a resonance between an artwork made of combs, a hairstyle piled high, and a woven cloth.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/ art/Gallery/index.html apackar1@swarthmore.edu
Washington, DC
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Atlanta
High Museum of Art Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell On view through August 2, 2009
This exhibition is organized by the Driskell Center and highlights for the first time the prints of the renowned Distinguished University of Maryland Professor of Art, Emeritus, David C. Driskell, an artist, art historian, collector, curator, and educator and one of the most recognized and respected names in the world of African American art and culture. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Baltimore
African American women have played a role in every war effort in United States history. Sister, Soldiers examines the past and present military service of black women, from the Civil War to the War on Terror. After placing black women as soldiers within a broad historical context, the thematic panels of the exhibition highlight the impact of race and gender issues on military service as well as the breakthrough moments in the history of that service. Over the last forty years, the roles available to black women in the military have shifted dramatically. This exhibition offers perspective on todays African American women within the present conflicts in which the nation is engaged and the sacrifices that
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some have made in the line of duty.
Brooklyn
Chicago
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DePaul University Museum Main Gallery Double Exposure: African American Before and Behind the Camera On view through June 14, 2009
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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 Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art On view through May 29, 2009
Evanston
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Main Gallery Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks On view through June 28, 2009
Gordon Parks (19122006) began working as a professional photographer in the 1940s, documenting the urban and rural poor in the United States for the Farm Security Administration and other organizations. Parks served as a staff photographer for Life magazine from 1945 to 1975, capturing images from all walks of American society, from the struggle for civil rights to the glamour of Hollywood stars. The 73 photographs featured in Bare Witness, organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University,
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were personally selected by Parks as his most powerful imagery. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Hampton
Jackson
The Mississippi Museum of Art Public Corridor American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bong, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barth On view through July 12, 2009
380 South Lamar Street Jackson, Mississippi 39201 601/ 960-1515 www.msmuseumart.org
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Gulf Coast seeks to illuminate the intersection of these important artists lives and work and to further examine the history of the abundantly creative region of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This traveling exhibition is organized by the Mississippi Arts Commission and is underwritten by the
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National Endowment for the Arts. It is the second in a series highlighting the cultural contributions of historic Mississippi personas in art, music, literature, theater, and dance. This entry is to highlight the work of Richmond Barth. A publication on the artists and artworks in the exhibition is available.
Muncie
Minnetrista Cultural Center Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad On view through May 3, 2009
New York
June Kelly Gallery Elizabeth Catlett: Recent Sculpture On view through May 2, 2009 591 Broadway New York, New York 10012 212/ 226-1660 www.junekellygallery.com 591 Broadway New York, New York 10012 212/ 226-1660 www.junekellygallery.com
June Kelly Gallery James Little: Recent Paintings May 8 June 9, 2009
St. Petersburg
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San Francisco
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Meet Me at the Center of the Earth features Caves shimmering soundsuit sculptures. The soundsuits seem poised to explode into dance and ritual while exploring issues of ceremony, identity and myth. The many layers of meaning woven into the physically beautiful soundsuits intrigue, overwhelm, challenge and seduce the audience. This exhibition represents the largest scale presentation of Caves career. As many as thirty soundsuits surround the sphere on mannequins creating a space evocative of sacred and ritual space. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Washington, DC
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Wilberforce
The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center Soul! Art from the National AfroAmerican Museum May 1, 2009 February 28, 2010
What is it like to be Black in America? Artists from the last two centuries tell of the AfricanAmerican experience through their creative expressions in Soul! Art from the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center. This featured exhibit will showcase paintings, sculpture, prints and textiles from the extensive art collections of the Ohio Historical Society's National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio.
The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center P.O. Box 578 1350 Brush Row Road Wilberforce, Ohio 45384 937/ 376-4944
Wilmington
Delaware Art Museum Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum May 2 July 12, 2009
This exhibition features textiles, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by contemporary African American artists. From vibrant quilts and weathervanes to provocative assemblages and paintings, this wide-ranging exhibition explores the artistic expressions of self-taught African American artists from the rural South and the urban North. Ancestry and Innovation includes works of art by an elder generation of creators, such as David Butler, Sam Doyle, Bessie Harvey, and Clementine Hunter; by contemporary masters such as Thornton Dial, Sr. and Thornton Dial, Jr.; and by emerging artists such as Kevin Sampson and Willie LeRoy Elliot. The ongoing contribution of black artists to the kaleidoscope of American cultural and visual experience is the core of the exhibition.
2301 Kentmere Parkway Wilmington, Delaware 19806 866/ 232-3714; 302/ 571-9590 www.delart.org/
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Atlanta
Baltimore
Chicago
Chicago Public Library The Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of African American History Woodson Regional Library 9525 S. Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60628
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and Literature Exhibit Gallery To See Reality in a New Light: The Art and Activism of Marion Perkins On view through December 31, 2009
312/745-2080 http://www.chipublib.org/ eventsprog/programs/exhibits.php
DePaul University Museum Main Gallery Double Exposure: African American Before and Behind the Camera On view through June 14, 2009
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
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for Change will present the artistic and scholarly products of Julius Rosenwalds support, and will include more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-two Rosenwald fellows, as well as a selection of documentary and archival materials. Artists include: Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Evanston
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Main Gallery Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks On view through June 28, 2009
Gordon Parks (19122006) began working as a professional photographer in the 1940s, documenting the urban and rural poor in the United States for the Farm Security Administration and other organizations. Parks served as a staff photographer for Life magazine from 1945 to 1975, capturing images from all walks of American society, from the struggle for civil rights to the glamour of Hollywood stars. The 73 photographs featured in Bare Witness, organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, were personally selected by Parks as his most powerful imagery. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Fort Worth
Amon Carter Museum The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper June 6August 23, 2009 Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard Fort Worth, Texas 76107 817/738-1933 www.cartermuseum.org/
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The works of more than 50 African-American artists from the late 1800s to the early years of this century are on view in this special exhibition. Drawn from the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection an esteemed private collection of works by African-American artists the exhibition features more than 90 works on paper by artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, Alison Saar and Charles White. The exhibition was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California. Concurrent to this exhibition, the Carter will mount the one-gallery exhibition AfricanAmerican Art: Selections from the Amon Carter Museums Collection. Showcasing some of the museums landmark prints and drawings from the same era as those in the Kelley exhibition, this exhibitions featured artists include Charles Alston, Grafton Tyler Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, William E. Smith, Dox Thrash, Charles White and John Wilson.
Hampton
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Jackson
The Mississippi Museum of Art Public Corridor American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bong, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barth On view through July 12, 2009 380 South Lamar Street Jackson, Mississippi 39201 601/ 960-1515 www.msmuseumart.org
American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf

Coast seeks to illuminate the intersection of these important artists lives and work and to further examine the history of the abundantly creative region of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This traveling exhibition is organized by the Mississippi Arts Commission and is underwritten by the National Endowment for the Arts. It is the second in a series highlighting the cultural contributions of historic Mississippi personas in art, music, literature, theater, and dance. This entry is to highlight the work of Richmond Barth. A publication on the artists and artworks in the exhibition is available.
New York
June Kelly Gallery James Little: Recent Paintings On view through June 9, 2009 591 Broadway New York, New York 10012 212/ 226-1660 www.junekellygallery.com
St. Petersburg
In celebration of recent donations to the collection, the Museum presents a selection of remarkable artworks by African American folk artists. The grouping was given to the Museum by several collectors. Many of the most talented and respected self-taught African American artistsrepresented by paintings, sculpture, assemblage, and drawingsare
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included in this inspiring exhibition: Purvis Young, Bill Traylor, Clementine Hunter, Nellie Mae Rowe, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose and Annie Tolliver, Missionary Mary Proctor, Lonnie Holley, Ruby Williams, Roger Rice, Dilmus Hall, and Robert Howell.
San Francisco
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth features Caves shimmering soundsuit
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sculptures. The soundsuits seem poised to explode into dance and ritual while exploring issues of ceremony, identity and myth. The many layers of meaning woven into the physically beautiful soundsuits intrigue, overwhelm, challenge and seduce the audience. This exhibition represents the largest scale presentation of Caves career. As many as thirty soundsuits surround the sphere on mannequins creating a space evocative of sacred and ritual space. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Washington, DC
Wilberforce
The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center Soul! Art from the National AfroAmerican Museum The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center P.O. Box 578 1350 Brush Row Road
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On view through February 28, 2010

Wilberforce, Ohio 45384 937/ 376-4944
Wilmington
Delaware Art Museum Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum On view through July 12, 2009
July
Atlanta
High Museum of Art Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell On view through August 2, 2009 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30309 404/ 733-4400; 404/ 733-HIGH www.high.org/
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highmuseum@woodruffcenter.org
Chicago
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
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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 will include more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-two Rosenwald fellows, as well as a selection of documentary and archival materials. Artists include: Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Fort Worth
Amon Carter Museum The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper On view through August 23, 2009
The works of more than 50 African-American artists from the late 1800s to the early years of this century are on view in this special exhibition. Drawn from the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection an esteemed private collection of works by African-American artists the exhibition features more than 90 works on paper by artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, Alison Saar and Charles White. The exhibition was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California. Concurrent to this exhibition, the Carter will mount the one-gallery exhibition AfricanAmerican Art: Selections from the Amon Carter Museums Collection. Showcasing some of the museums landmark prints and drawings from the same era as those in the Kelley exhibition, this exhibitions featured artists include Charles Alston, Grafton Tyler Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, William E. Smith, Dox Thrash, Charles White and John Wilson.
Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard Fort Worth, Texas 76107 817/738-1933 www.cartermuseum.org/
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Hampton
Jackson
The Mississippi Museum of Art Public Corridor American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bong, Walter Anderson, Richmond Barth On view through July 12, 2009 380 South Lamar Street Jackson, Mississippi 39201 601/ 960-1515 www.msmuseumart.org
American Masters of the Mississippi

Gulf Coast seeks to illuminate the intersection of these important artists lives and work and to further examine the history of the abundantly creative region of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This traveling exhibition is organized by the Mississippi Arts Commission and is underwritten by the National Endowment for the Arts. It is the second in a series highlighting the cultural contributions of historic Mississippi personas in art, music, literature, theater, and dance. This entry is to highlight the work of Richmond Barth. A publication on the artists and artworks in the exhibition is available.
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Montgomery
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Contemporary African-American Quilts from Alabama July 25 - September 27, 2009 Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park One Museum Drive Montgomery, Alabama 36117 334/ 240-4333 www.mmfa.org museuminfo@mmfa.org
Througho ut history quilts have held an important and often cherished place in our culture, society and family traditions. Created in domestic settings, quilts serve both decorative and practical purposes. The quilts quickly become treasured by the owners and often are passed on through the family to become prized heirlooms. Though the materials and techniques may be common, quilts, as process, as art, as image, reflect the very fabric of our history and democracy. In 2004, the Museum acquired a collection of 48 quilts, most of which were created in West Alabama between 1945 and 2001. The designs of these textiles range from the traditional to the most contemporary forms of expression. The Museum will exhibit selections from this outstanding collection.
Sacramento
40 Acres Art Gallery Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas July 11 September 5, 2009
Progeny pairs Deborah Willis and her son, Hank Willis Thomas, in their first official collaboration. Willis is a photographer, educator and curator. Thomas has become known for his stinging critique of advertising and its impact on contemporary life. Consisting of photographs and video, the exhibit is a narrative of their family history, their developments as artists, and the fusion of the two. Reception: July 11, 2009
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St. Petersburg
San Francisco
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth features Caves shimmering soundsuit sculptures. The soundsuits seem poised to explode into dance and ritual while exploring issues of ceremony, identity and myth. The many layers of meaning woven into the physically beautiful soundsuits intrigue, overwhelm, challenge and seduce the audience. This exhibition represents the largest scale presentation of Caves career. As many as thirty soundsuits surround the sphere on mannequins creating a space evocative of sacred and ritual space.
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Washington, DC
Wilberforce
The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center Soul! Art from the National AfroAmerican Museum On view through February 28, 2010
What is it like to be Black in America? Artists from the last two centuries tell of the AfricanAmerican experience through their creative expressions in Soul! Art from the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural
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Center. This featured exhibit will showcase paintings, sculpture, prints and textiles from the extensive art collections of the Ohio Historical Society's National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio.
Wilmington
Delaware Art Museum Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum On view through July 12, 2009
August
Atlanta
This exhibition is organized by the Driskell Center and highlights for the first time the prints of the renowned Distinguished University of Maryland Professor of Art, Emeritus, David C. Driskell, an artist, art historian, collector, curator, and educator and one of the most recognized and respected names in the world of African American art and
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culture. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Charleston
Gibbes Museum of Art Main Gallery, Rotunda, and Galleries K and L Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum On view through October 11, 2009
135 Meeting Street Charleston, South Carolina 29401 843/ 722-2706 www.gibbesmuseum.org/
Chicago
This is a major retrospective exhibition on the life and work of Chicago Renaissance sculptor and social activist Marion Perkins. It includes original sculptures by Perkins, on loan to the Chicago Public Library from the Art Institute of Chicago, DuSable Museum of African American History, members of the Perkins family, art galleries, and private collectors. The Art
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and Activism of Marion Perkins also features original correspondence, rare photographs, and memorabilia from the holdings of the Harsh Research Collection.
Fort Worth
Amon Carter Museum The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper On view through August 23, 2009
The works of more than 50 African-American artists from the late 1800s to the early years
Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard Fort Worth, Texas 76107 817/738-1933 www.cartermuseum.org/
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of this century are on view in this special exhibition. Drawn from the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection an esteemed private collection of works by African-American artists the exhibition features more than 90 works on paper by artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, Alison Saar and Charles White. The exhibition was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California. Concurrent to this exhibition, the Carter will mount the one-gallery exhibition AfricanAmerican Art: Selections from the Amon Carter Museums Collection. Showcasing some of the museums landmark prints and drawings from the same era as those in the Kelley exhibition, this exhibitions featured artists include Charles Alston, Grafton Tyler Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, William E. Smith, Dox Thrash, Charles White and John Wilson.
Hampton
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Montgomery
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Contemporary African-American Quilts from Alabama On view through September 27, 2009 Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park One Museum Drive Montgomery, Alabama 36117 334/ 240-4333 www.mmfa.org museuminfo@mmfa.org
Througho ut history quilts have held an important and often cherished place in our culture, society and family traditions. Created in domestic settings, quilts serve both decorative and practical purposes. The quilts quickly become treasured by the owners and often are passed on through the family to become prized heirlooms. Though the materials and techniques may be common, quilts, as process, as art, as image, reflect the very fabric of our history and democracy. In 2004, the Museum acquired a collection of 48 quilts, most of which were created in West Alabama between 1945 and 2001. The designs of these textiles range from the traditional to the most contemporary forms of expression. The Museum will exhibit selections from this outstanding collection.
Muscatine
Muscatine Art Center Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad August 30 October 24, 2009
Muscatine Art Center 1314 Mulberry Avenue Muscatine, Iowa 52761 563/ 263-8282 http://www.muscatineartcenter.org/
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Sacramento
40 Acres Art Gallery Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas On view through September 5, 2009
Progeny pairs Deborah Willis and her son, Hank Willis Thomas, in their first official collaboration. Willis is a photographer, educator and curator. Thomas has become known for his stinging critique of advertising and its impact on contemporary life. Consisting of photographs and video, the exhibit is a narrative of their family history, their developments as artists, and the fusion of the two.
St. Petersburg
Washington, DC
Jubilee examines historical and
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contemporary African American holidays and celebrations from around the country. They are presented through images of captured moments throughout the years, along with treasured artifacts, costumes, documents, music, video and interviews.
Wilberforce
September
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Allentown
Allentown Art Museum A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund
September 13, 2009 January 10, 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 will include more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-two Rosenwald fellows, as well as a selection of documentary and archival materials. Artists include: Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Allentown Art Museum 31 North 5th Street Allentown, Pennsylvania 18101 610/ 432-4333 www.allentownartmuseum.org
Charleston
This exhibition features textiles, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by contemporary African American artists. From vibrant quilts and weathervanes to provocative assemblages and paintings, this wide-ranging exhibition explores the artistic expressions of self-taught African American artists from the rural South and the urban North. Ancestry and Innovation includes works of
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art by an elder generation of creators, such as David Butler, Sam Doyle, Bessie Harvey, and Clementine Hunter; by contemporary masters such as Thornton Dial, Sr. and Thornton Dial, Jr.; and by emerging artists such as Kevin Sampson and Willie LeRoy Elliot. The ongoing contribution of black artists to the kaleidoscope of American cultural and visual experience is the core of the exhibition.
Chicago
Montgomery
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Contemporary African-American Quilts from Alabama On view through September 27, 2009
Througho ut history quilts have held an important and often cherished place in our culture, society and family traditions. Created in domestic settings, quilts serve both decorative and practical purposes. The quilts quickly become
Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park One Museum Drive Montgomery, Alabama 36117 334/ 240-4333 www.mmfa.org museuminfo@mmfa.org
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treasured by the owners and often are passed on through the family to become prized heirlooms. Though the materials and techniques may be common, quilts, as process, as art, as image, reflect the very fabric of our history and democracy. In 2004, the Museum acquired a collection of 48 quilts, most of which were created in West Alabama between 1945 and 2001. The designs of these textiles range from the traditional to the most contemporary forms of expression. The Museum will exhibit selections from this outstanding collection.
Muscatine
Muscatine Art Center Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad On view through October 24, 2009
Sacramento
40 Acres Art Gallery Progeny: Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas On view through September 5, 2009
Progeny pairs Deborah Willis and her son, Hank Willis Thomas, in their first official collaboration. Willis is a photographer, educator and curator. Thomas has become known for his stinging critique of advertising
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and its impact on contemporary life. Consisting of photographs and video, the exhibit is a narrative of their family history, their developments as artists, and the fusion of the two.
Santa Cruz
The Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz Art Forum Gallery The Art of Richard Mayhew: After the Rain September 12 November 22, 2009
The Art of Richard Mayhew will represent three separate exhibitions organized chronologically and presented concurrently at three San Francisco Bay Area institutions: the de Saisset Museum, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), and The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz. Together, the three presentations will provide a complete retrospective exhibition for Richard Mayhew, a nationally recognized, Aptos-based painter. The Museum of Art & Historys exhibition component of The Art of Richard Mayhew will showcase the most recent work produced by the artist, since his relocation to Santa Cruz County.
The Museum of Art and History @ the McPherson Center 705 Front Street Santa Cruz, California 95060 831/ 429-1964 www.santacruzmah.org
St. Petersburg
In celebration of recent donations to the collection, the Museum presents a selection of remarkable artworks by African American folk artists. The grouping was given to the Museum by several collectors. Many of the most talented and respected self-taught African American artistsrepresented by paintings, sculpture, assemblage, and drawingsare included in this inspiring exhibition: Purvis Young, Bill Traylor, Clementine Hunter, Nellie Mae Rowe, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose and Annie Tolliver, Missionary Mary Proctor, Lonnie
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Holley, Ruby Williams, Roger Rice, Dilmus Hall, and Robert Howell.
San Antonio
McNay Art Museum The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper September 23, 2009 January 3, 2010
The sixty-nine works on paper in this exhibition date from the late1800s to 2002 and represent just a fraction of what is contained in the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of San Antonio, Texas, one of the country's major collections of African American art. Included in the exhibition are drawings, etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, acrylics, gouaches, linoleum and color screen prints by such noted artists as Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, John Biggers, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Eldizer Cortor, Margaret Burroughs, and many other outstandingartists.
McNay Art Museum 6000 North New Braunfels San Antonio, Texas 78209 210/824-5368 http://www.mcnayart.org/ info@McNayArt.org
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
Constitution Avenue and 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20013 202/ 633-1000 www.nmaahc.si.edu
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Center The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise On view through November 15, 2009
info@si.edu
Wilberforce
October
Allentown
On view through January 10, 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
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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 will include more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-two Rosenwald fellows, as well as a selection of documentary and archival materials. Artists include: Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Brunswick
Bowdoin College Museum of Art From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden October 1, 2009 January 3, 2010
From Process to Print presents a major survey of the extensive graphic works created by Romare Bearden over more than 30 years. Included are 75 lithographs, etchings, collotypes, serigraphs, screen prints, drypoints, monotypes, and engraving and collotype plates. Also, there is 1collage and 1 photomontage that were the basis for some of the prints in the exhibition. A catalog and brochure accompany this exhibition.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art 9400 College Station Brunswick, Maine 04011-8494 207/ 725-3275 www.bowdoin.edu/art-useum/ index.shtml artmuseum@bowdoin.edu
Charleston
This exhibition features textiles, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by contemporary African American artists. From
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vibrant quilts and weathervanes to provocative assemblages and paintings, this wide-ranging exhibition explores the artistic expressions of self-taught African American artists from the rural South and the urban North. Ancestry and Innovation includes works of art by an elder generation of creators, such as David Butler, Sam Doyle, Bessie Harvey, and Clementine Hunter; by contemporary masters such as Thornton Dial, Sr. and Thornton Dial, Jr.; and by emerging artists such as Kevin Sampson and Willie LeRoy Elliot. The ongoing contribution of black artists to the kaleidoscope of American cultural and visual experience is the core of the exhibition.
Chicago
Muscatine
Muscatine Art Center Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad On view through October 24, 2009
The stories of the Underground Railroad are some of the most powerful in American history. Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad is an exhibition of 50 paintings, etchings and drawings by
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Joseph Holston created to capture the essence of the courage and determination required to escape; and to enhance understanding of the condition of slavery and the powerful instinct toward freedom. Color in Freedom is a visual interpretation and expression of a range of human experiences and emotions within the framework of this particular period in American history. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building Fisher Brooks Gallery Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool October 17, 2009 January 3, 2010
118 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 215/ 972-7600 www.pafa.org
Sacramento
40 Acres Art Gallery African American Quilts of Northern California October 13 December 26, 2009 40 Acres Art Gallery 35th Street and Broadway 3428 3rd Avenue Sacramento, California 95817 916/ 456-5080 or 916/ 649-7900
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Northern California history is rich with African American quilters, whose work have become known nationally for their style, coloring and multi-generational inclusion. The exhibit showcases work spanning over 40 years. Reception: October 10, 2009
http://www.40acresartgallery.org/ about-1.html kcurry@sthope.org
St. Petersburg
San Antonio
McNay Art Museum The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper On view through January 3, 2010
The sixty-nine works on paper in this exhibition date from the late1800s to 2002 and represent just a fraction of what is contained in the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of San Antonio, Texas, one of the country's major collections of African American art. Included in the exhibition are drawings, etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, acrylics, gouaches, linoleum and color screen prints by such noted artists as Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White,
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Elizabeth Catlett, John Biggers, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Eldizer Cortor, Margaret Burroughs, and many other outstandingartists.
San Francisco
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) The Art of Richard Mayhew October 19, 2009 January 10, 2010
The Art of Richard Mayhew will represent three separate exhibitions organized chronologically and presented concurrently at three San Francisco Bay Area institutions: the de Saisset Museum, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), and the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz. Together, the three presentations will provide a complete retrospective exhibition for Richard Mayhew. The exhibition of Mayhew's work at MoAD will be the first part of a three-part chronological retrospective of the artist's career. In this exhibition, Mayhew's paintings from the late 1950's through the 1970's, consisting primarily of landscape with some figurative works will be featured. In 1957, Mayhew enjoyed his first solo exhibition as an academically trained artist and announced his unique style of presenting the natural milieu to the New York art world. During the tumultuous period of social and cultural transformation of the 1960s, Mayhew worked as an artist and an activist most notably as a founding member of Spiral, the legendary group of Black artists including Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and Hale Woodruff, organized in 1963 to address issues of civil rights and racial equality through their art.
Santa Cruz
The Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz Art Forum Gallery The Art of Richard Mayhew: After the Rain On view through November 22, 2009
The Art of Richard Mayhew will represent three separate exhibitions organized chronologically and presented concurrently at
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three San Francisco Bay Area institutions: the de Saisset Museum, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), and The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz. Together, the three presentations will provide a complete retrospective exhibition for Richard Mayhew, a nationally recognized, Aptos-based painter. The Museum of Art & Historys exhibition component of The Art of Richard Mayhew will showcase the most recent work produced by the artist, since his relocation to Santa Cruz County.
Washington, DC
Wilberforce
What is it like to be Black in America? Artists from the last two centuries tell of the AfricanAmerican experience through their creative expressions in Soul! Art from the National Afro-American Museum. This featured exhibit will showcase paintings, sculpture, prints and textiles from the extensive art collections of the Ohio Historical Society's National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio.
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November
Allentown
On view through January 10, 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 will include more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-two Rosenwald fellows, as well as a selection of documentary and archival materials. Artists include: Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Amarillo
Amarillo Museum of Art Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad November 6, 2009 January 17, 2010
The stories of the Underground Railroad are some of the most powerful in American history. Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad is an exhibition of 50 paintings, etchings and drawings by Joseph Holston created to capture the essence of the courage and determination required to
Amarillo Museum of Art 2200 South Van Buren Street Amarillo, Texas 79107 806/ 371-5050 http://www.amarilloart.org/ amoa@actx.edu
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escape; and to enhance understanding of the condition of slavery and the powerful instinct toward freedom. Color in Freedom is a visual interpretation and expression of a range of human experiences and emotions within the framework of this particular period in American history. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Brunswick
Bowdoin College Museum of Art From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden On view through January 3, 2010
Chicago
This is a major retrospective exhibition on the life and work of Chicago Renaissance sculptor and social activist Marion Perkins. It includes original sculptures by Perkins, on loan to the Chicago Public Library from the Art Institute of Chicago, DuSable Museum of African American History, members of the Perkins family, art galleries, and private collectors. The Art and Activism of Marion Perkins also features original correspondence, rare photographs, and memorabilia from the
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holdings of the Harsh Research Collection.
Detroit
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History RICHMOND BARTHE: HIS LIFE IN ART November 1, 2009 February 28, 2010
Richmond Barth (1901-1989) is recognized as one of the foremost sculptors of his generation. Following his graduation from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1928, Barth moved to New York and established a studio in Harlem where he became associated with the Harlem Renaissance. He is also known for his many public works. The exhibition is curated by esteemed art historian, Samella Lewis, Ph.D.; it includes 30 sculptures plus 10 photomurals of Barth and his public works. A book and brochure will accompany this exhibition.
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building Fisher Brooks Gallery Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool On view through January 3, 2010
Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool was curated by the Nasher Museum (Duke University) and is the career retrospective of the renowned American artist Barkley L. Hendricks. Born in 1945, Hendricks's unique work resides at the nexus of American realism and post-modernism, a space somewhere between portraitists Chuck Close and Alex Katz and pioneering black conceptualists David Hammons and Adrian Piper. He is best known for his stunning, life-sized portraits of people of color from the urban northeast. Cool, empowering and sometimes confrontational, Hendricks's artistic privileging of a culturally complex black body has paved the way for today's younger generation of artists. This unprecedented exhibition of
118 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 215/ 972-7600 www.pafa.org
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Hendricks's paintings includes work from 1964 to the present. A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
Sacramento
40 Acres Art Gallery African American Quilts of Northern California On view through December 26, 2009
St. Petersburg
San Antonio
McNay Art Museum The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper McNay Art Museum 6000 North New Braunfels San Antonio, Texas 78209 210/824-5368
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On view through January 3, 2010 The sixty-nine works on paper in this exhibition date from the late1800s to 2002 and represent just a fraction of what is contained in the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of San Antonio, Texas, one of the country's major collections of African American art. Included in the exhibition are drawings, etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, acrylics, gouaches, linoleum and color screen prints by such noted artists as Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, John Biggers, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Eldizer Cortor, Margaret Burroughs, and many other outstandingartists.
http://www.mcnayart.org/ info@McNayArt.org
San Francisco
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) The Art of Richard Mayhew On view through January 10, 2010
The Art of Richard Mayhew will represent three separate exhibitions organized chronologically and presented concurrently at three San Francisco Bay Area institutions: the de Saisset Museum, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), and the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz. Together, the three presentations will provide a complete retrospective exhibition for Richard Mayhew. The exhibition of Mayhew's work at MoAD will be the first part of a three-part chronological retrospective of the artist's career. In this exhibition, Mayhew's paintings from the late 1950's through the 1970's, consisting primarily of landscape with some figurative works will be featured. In 1957, Mayhew enjoyed his first solo exhibition as an academically trained artist and announced his unique style of presenting the natural milieu to the New York art world. During the tumultuous period of social and cultural transformation of the 1960s, Mayhew worked as an artist and an activist most notably as a founding member of Spiral, the legendary group of Black artists including Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and Hale Woodruff, organized in 1963 to address issues of civil rights and racial equality through their art.
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Santa Cruz
The Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz Art Forum Gallery The Art of Richard Mayhew: After the Rain On view through November 22, 2009
The Art of Richard Mayhew will represent three separate exhibitions organized chronologically and presented concurrently at three San Francisco Bay Area institutions: the de Saisset Museum, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), and The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz. Together, the three presentations will provide a complete retrospective exhibition for Richard Mayhew, a nationally recognized, Aptos-based painter. The Museum of Art & Historys exhibition component of The Art of Richard Mayhew will showcase the most recent work produced by the artist, since his relocation to Santa Cruz County.
Washington, DC
Wilberforce
The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center Soul! Art from the National AfroAmerican Museum On view through February 28, 2010 The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center P.O. Box 578 1350 Brush Row Road Wilberforce, Ohio 45384
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What is it like to be Black in America? Artists from the last two centuries tell of the AfricanAmerican experience through their creative expressions in Soul! Art from the National Afro-American Museum. This featured exhibit will showcase paintings, sculpture, prints and textiles from the extensive art collections of the Ohio Historical Society's National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio.
937/ 376-4944
December
Allentown
On view through January 10, 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 will include more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-two Rosenwald fellows, as well as a selection of documentary and archival materials. Artists include: Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others.
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Amarillo
Amarillo Museum of Art Color in Freedom: Journey along the Underground Railroad On view through January 17, 2010
Amarillo Museum of Art 2200 South Van Buren Street Amarillo, Texas 79107 806/ 371-5050 http://www.amarilloart.org/ amoa@actx.edu
Brunswick
Bowdoin College Museum of Art From Process to Print: Graphic Works by Romare Bearden On view through January 3, 2010
Chicago
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Detroit
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History RICHMOND BARTHE: HIS LIFE IN ART On view through February 28, 2010
Richmond Barth (1901-1989) is recognized as one of the foremost sculptors of his generation. Following his graduation from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1928, Barth moved to New York and established a studio in Harlem where he became associated with the Harlem Renaissance. He is also known for his many public works. The exhibition is curated by esteemed art historian, Samella Lewis, Ph.D.; it includes 30 sculptures plus 10 photomurals of Barth and his public works. A book and brochure accompany this exhibition.
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building Fisher Brooks Gallery Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool 118 North Broad Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 215/ 972-7600 www.pafa.org
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On view through January 3, 2010

Sacramento
40 Acres Art Gallery African American Quilts of Northern California On view through December 26, 2009
St. Petersburg
In celebration of recent donations to the collection, the Museum presents a selection of remarkable artworks by African American folk artists. The grouping was given to the Museum
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by several collectors. Many of the most talented and respected self-taught African American artistsrepresented by paintings, sculpture, assemblage, and drawingsare included in this inspiring exhibition: Purvis Young, Bill Traylor, Clementine Hunter, Nellie Mae Rowe, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose and Annie Tolliver, Missionary Mary Proctor, Lonnie Holley, Ruby Williams, Roger Rice, Dilmus Hall, and Robert Howell.
San Antonio
McNay Art Museum The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper On view through January 3, 2010
The sixty-nine works on paper in this exhibition date from the late1800s to 2002 and represent just a fraction of what is contained in the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of San Antonio, Texas, one of the country's major collections of African American art. Included in the exhibition are drawings, etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, acrylics, gouaches, linoleum and color screen prints by such noted artists as Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, John Biggers, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Eldizer Cortor, Margaret Burroughs, and many other outstandingartists.
San Francisco
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) The Art of Richard Mayhew On view through January 10, 2010
The Art of Richard Mayhew will represent three separate exhibitions organized chronologically and presented concurrently at three San Francisco Bay Area institutions: the
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de Saisset Museum, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), and the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz. Together, the three presentations will provide a complete retrospective exhibition for Richard Mayhew. The exhibition of Mayhew's work at MoAD will be the first part of a three-part chronological retrospective of the artist's career. In this exhibition, Mayhew's paintings from the late 1950's through the 1970's, consisting primarily of landscape with some figurative works will be featured. In 1957, Mayhew enjoyed his first solo exhibition as an academically trained artist and announced his unique style of presenting the natural milieu to the New York art world. During the tumultuous period of social and cultural transformation of the 1960s, Mayhew worked as an artist and an activist most notably as a founding member of Spiral, the legendary group of Black artists including Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, and Hale Woodruff, organized in 1963 to address issues of civil rights and racial equality through their art.
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INDEX
A
Actors Theatre of Louisville 9, 28 Adams, Ron 108, 114, 120, 127 African-American Museum in Philadelphia 13, 34, 54 Allentown Art Museum 104, 110, 116, 123 Allentown, Pennsylvania 104, 110, 116, 123 Alston, Charles 86, 92, 100 Amarillo Museum of Art 117, 123 Amarillo, Texas 117, 123 The Amistad Center for Art and Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 8, 27, 47, 66 Amon Carter Museum 85, 92, 99 Ampofo-Anti, Kwabena 26-27, 47, 66, 78, 86, 93, 100 Anderson Gallery 15, 36 Andrews, Benny 108, 114, 120, 127 Annapolis, Maryland 18, 39, 59 Arnold, Anna 6, 23 Atlanta, Georgia 2, 19, 40-41, 60, 61, 73, 74, 82, 90, 97 Basquiat, Jean Michel 16, 37, 56 Bearden, Romare 15, 16, 35, 37, 55, 108, 110, 114, 117, 120, 121, 124, 127 Bell, Cushmere 6, 24, 45 Benson, Mozell 30, 50, 68 Bey, Dawound 3, 20 Biggers, John 108, 114, 120, 127 Birch, Willie 16, 37, 55 Bowdoin College Museum of Art 110, 117, 124 Bowens, Milton 5, 22, 43 Bright, Alfred 6, 24, 45 Bright, Sheila Pree 8 Brooker, Moe 6, 15, 24, 36, 45 Brooklyn, New York 4, 21, 42, 62, 74 Brown, Frederick J. 30, 51, 69 Brown, Grafton Tyler 86, 92, 100 Brown, Malcolm 6, 24, 45 Brunswick, Maine 110, 117, 124 Bullock, Barbara 15, 36 Burke, Selma 15, 35 Burroughs, Margaret 108, 114, 120, 127 Burrowes, Adjoa J. 10, 29, 49 Burwell, Charles 15, 36 Butler, David 30, 50, 68, 82, 90, 97, 98, 105 111 Buttram, David 6, 24, 45
B
Baker, Lawrence 6, 24, 45 Baltimore, Maryland 2, 19, 41, 61, 74, 83 Banks, Jr., Robert 6, 24, 45 Banneker-Douglas Museum 18, 39, 59 Barnett-Aden Collection 17, 38, 58 Barth, Richmond 34, 54, 67, 70, 78, 87, 93, 118, 125
California African American Museum 8, 27, 48
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Catlett, Elizabeth 10, 23, 31, 44, 64, 70, 76, 79, 84, 85, 86, 92, 99, 100,104, 108, 110, 114, 117, 120, 123, 127 Cave, Nick 10, 31, 57, 72, 80, 88, 95 Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History 6, 7, 25, 45, 46, 64, 118, 125 Charleston, South Carolina 98, 104, 111 Cheers, D. Michael 13, 33, 53 Chicago, Illinois 4, 5, 21, 22, 23, 42, 43, 44, 62, 63, 75, 76, 83, 84, 91, 98, 99, 105, 111, 118, 124 Chicago State University 5 Clark, Sonya 15, 36, 55, 57, 72 Cleveland, Ohio 6, 24, 44 Cleveland State University 6, 24, 44 Coates, Gregory 22, 43, 63 Cole, Kevin 16, 37, 55 Coleman, Johnny 6, 24, 45 College Park, Maryland 24, 45, 64, 76 Cortor, Eldizer 108, 114, 120, 126
Doyle, Sam 30, 50, 68, 82, 90, 97, 98, 105 111 Driskell, David C. 60, 73, 82, 90, 97 Dunham, Katherine 23, 44, 64, 76, 84, 92, 99, 104, 110, 117, 123
E
Elliot, Willie LeRoy 30, 60, 68, 82, 90, 97, 98, 105, 111 Evans, Minnie 16, 37, 55 Evanston, Illinois 65, 77, 85 Everson, Kevin 6, 24, 45
F
Flint Institute of Arts 7, 26, 46, 65 Flint, Michigan 7, 26, 46, 65 Forth Worth, Texas 85, 92, 99 40 Acres Art Gallery 15, 36, 55, 94, 102, 107, 113, 119, 126 Freelon, Allan 15, 35
Gallagher, Ellen 29-30, 49-50, 68 Gallery Guichard 5, 22, 43 Gibbes Museum of Art 98, 104, 111 Goya Contemporary 2 G. R. NNamdi Gallery 22, 43, 63
The David Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora 24, 45, 64, 76 Davis, Dexter 6, 24 Davis, Ulysses 2, 19, 40, 60-61 Delaware Art Museum 82, 90, 97 DePaul University Museum 63, 75, 84 Detroit, Michigan 6, 25, 45, 46, 64, 118, 125 Dial, Jr., Thornton 30, 50, 68, 82, 90, 97, 98, 105, 111 Dial, Sr., Thornton 30, 50, 68, 82, 90, 97, 98, 105, 111 Diggs Gallery (Winston-Salem State University) 18, 39, 59 Douglas, Aaron 23, 34, 44, 54, 64, 70, 76, 84, 92, 99, 104, 108, 110, 114, 117, 120, 123, 127 Douglas, Emory 9, 28, 48 Dowell, Jr., John 17, 37, 58
H
Hall, Dilmus 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126 Hammonds House Museum 19, 40, 60 Hammons, David 9, 28, 48 Hampton University Museum 26, 47, 66, 77, 86, 92, 100 Hampton, Virginia 26, 47, 66, 77, 86, 92, 100 The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art 85, 92, 99, 108, 114, 120, 127 Hartford, Connecticut 8, 27, 47, 66 Harvey, Bessie 30, 50, 68, 82, 90, 97, 98, 105 111 Hayden, Palmer 34, 54, 70 Hazard, Ben 13, 33, 53 Hemphill Fine Arts 17, 38, 58
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Henderson, LeRoy 11, 32 Hendricks, Barkley L. 12, 32, 52, 112-113, 119, 125 High Museum of Art 2, 19, 40, 60, 73, 82, 90, 97 Holley, Lonnie 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126 Holston, Joseph 51, 69, 78-79, 101, 106, 112, 117, 123 Holton, Curlee Raven 6, 24, 45 Horns, Miller 6, 24, 45 Howard, Humbert 15, 36 Howard, Mark 6, 24, 45 Howell, Robert 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126 Hunt, Richard H. 17 Hunter, Clementine 16, 30, 37, 50, 56, 68, 71, 79, 82, 87, 90, 95, 97, 98, 102, 105 108, 111, 114, 120, 126
Lewis, Gina 26-27, 47, 66, 78, 86, 93, 100 Lewis, Roy 17, 38 Ligon, Glenn 29-30, 49-50, 68 List Gallery 57, 72 Little, James 79, 87 Los Angeles, California 8, 9, 27-28, 48, 85, 92, 99 Louisville, Kentucky 9 Lovelace, Michaelangelo 6, 24, 45 Lovell, Whitfield 16, 37, 55 Loyola Marymount University 9, 28, 48
M
Mahone, D. Anthony 6, 24, 45 Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 65, 77 Maxtion, Mary 30, 50, 68 McDaniel, John 14, 35 McNay Art Museum 108, 114, 120, 127 McNeil, Bruce 38 Mayhew, Richard 107, 114-115, 121, 127 Mendes, Carolyn 26-27, 47, 66, 78, 86, 93, 100 Mendes, Rudolph 26-27, 47, 66, 78, 86, 93, 100 Miami-Dade Public Library System 10, 29, 49 Miami, Florida 10, 29, 49 Middlebury College 29, 49, 67 Middlebury, Vermont 29, 49, 67 Minnetrista Cultural Center 51, 69, 78 Mississippi Museum of Art 67, 78, 86, 93 Montgomery, Alabama 30, 50, 68, 94, 97, 101, 104, 106, 110 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts 30, 50, 68, 94, 97, 101, 104, 106, 110 Moore, John L. 6, 24, 45 Moss, Russ 19, 41 Muncie, Indiana 51, 69, 78 Muscatine Art Center 101, 106, 112 Muscatine, Iowa 101, 106, 112 The Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz 107, 115, 121 Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) 4, 42,
I
Ingersol, Tonya 11 International Visions-The Gallery 17, 38
J
Jack Shainman Gallery 10, 52 Jackson, Billy Morrow 17, 37, 38, 58 Jackson, Mississippi 67, 78, 86, 93 Johnson, Jason Miccolo 18, 39-40, 59 Johnson, Malvin Gray 34, 54 Johnson, William H. 34, 54, 85, 86, 92, 100 Joyce Gordon Gallery 13, 33, 53, 70 June Kelly Gallery 11, 32, 70, 79, 87
King-Tisdell Cottage 2 Kosh, Beni 6, 24, 45
L
Laband Art Gallery 9, 28, 48 Lawrence, Jacob 16, 23, 34, 37, 44, 54, 55, 58, 64, 70, 76, 84, 86, 92, 99, 100, 104, 108, 110, 114, 117, 120, 123, 127
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62, 74 Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg) 16, 37, 56, 70, 79, 87, 95, 102, 107, 113, 120, 126 Museum of Science and Industry 5, 43 Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) 56, 71, 80, 88, 114, 121, 127
Pozo, Angelica 6, 24, 45 *Pree-Bright, Sheila 8, Prince, Steve 19, 40, 60 Proctor, Mary 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126 Puryear, Martin 16, 37, 55
Q N
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center 81, 89, 96, 103, 109, 116, 122, 128 New Orleans, Louisiana 10, 30, 31, 51, 69 New Orleans Museum of Art 30, 51, 69 New York, New York 10, 11, 12, 32, 33, 52, 70, 79, 87 Northwestern University 65, 77
Quilts 13, 14, 54, 68, 94, 97, 106, 113
R
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture 2, 19, 20, 41, 61, 74 Rice, Roger 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126 Richmond, Virginia 15, 36, 55 Ringgold, Faith 16, 37, 55 Rowe, Nellie Mae 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126
O
Oakland, California 13, 33, 53, 70 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 34, 53, 70 Oklahoma City Museum of Art 34, 53, 70 Outland, Lureca 30, 50, 68
P
Palmer, Charly 17, 38 Parks, Gordon 6, 23, 44, 64, 65, 76, 77, 84, 85, 92, 99, 104, 110, 117, 123 Parish Gallery Georgetown 38 Patton-Ezell, Virgie 6, 24, 45 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 112, 119, 125 Perkins, Marion 4, 21-22, 24, 42, 62, 75, 83, 91, 98, 105, 111-112, 118, 124 Pettway, Leola 30, 50, 68 Philadelphia Museum of Art 13, 34, 54 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 13, 14, 34, 35, 54, 112, 119, 125 Pinckney, Charles 6, 24, 45 Piper, Adrian 29-30, 49-50, 68 Piper, Rose 23, 44, 64, 76, 84, 92, 99, 104, 110, 117, 123 Pippin, Horace 16, 37, 55
Saar, Alison 9, 28, 48, 85, 92, 100 Saar, Betye 9, 28, 48 Sacramento, California 15, 36, 55, 94, 102, 107, 113, 119, 126 Salle, Jr., Charles 6, 24, 45 Sampson, Kevin 30, 50, 68, 82, 90, 97, 98, 105, 111 Sampson, Preston 17, 38 Sande Webster Gallery 14, 35 San Antonio, Texas 108, 114, 120, 127 San Francisco, California 56, 57, 71, 72, 80, 88, 95, 107, 114, 115, 120, 121, 127 Santa Cruz, California 107, 115, 121 Saunders, Raymond 16, 37, 55 Savage, Augusta 23, 44, 64, 76, 84, 92, 99, 104, 110, 117, 123 Scott, Joyce J. 2 Scott, William Edouard 17, 37, 58 Scurlock Studio 39, 59, 73, 81, 89, 96,103, 109, 115, 122 Searles, Charles 18, 39, 59 Shaw, Thomas 17, 37, 58 Simpson, Lorna 16, 37, 56 Sloan, Louis 15, 36 Smith, Shinique 12, 33, 52
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Smith, William E. 86, 92, 100 Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum 17, 38, 59, 72, 81, 89, 96, 102, 108 Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture 39, 59, 73, 81, 89, 96, 103, 109, 115, 122 Snipes, Kevin 6, 24, 45 Spelman College Museum of Fine Art 2, 19, 41, 61, 74 Spertus Museum 23, 44, 63, 76, 84, 91, 99 St. Petersburg, Florida 16, 37, 56, 70, 79, 87, 95, 102, 107, 113, 120, 126 Stella Jones Gallery 10, 31 Steth, Raymond 15, 36 Stevens, Nelson 6, 24, 45 The Studio Museum in Harlem 12, 32, 33, 52 Sudduth, Jimmy Lee 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126 Swarthmore College 57, 72 Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 57, 72 Swope Art Museum 16, 37, 58
VanDerZee, James 34, 54 Virginia Commonwealth University 15, 36 Vivian G. Harsh Research Library 4, 21, 42, 62, 75, 83, 91, 98, 105, 111, 118, 124
Taliaferro, Jerry 7 Tanner, Henry Ossawa 14, 15, 35, 108, 114, 120, 127 Taylor, Sarah Mary 14, 54 Tyler, Al 5 Terre Haute, Indiana 16, 37, 58 Thomas, Hank Willis 52, 94, 102, 107 Thrash, Dox 15, 25, 86, 92, 100 Tiberino, Ellen Powell 15, 36 Tolliver, Annie 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126 Tolliver, Mose 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126 Traylor, Bill 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 8, 27, 47, 66 Wagner, Albert 6, 24, 45 Walker, Kara 29, 49-50, 67 The Walters Art Museum 3, 20 Ward, Richard 26-27, 47, 66, 78, 86, 93, 100 Washington, DC 17, 38, 39, 58, 59, 72, 73, 81, 89, 96,102, 103, 108, 109, 115, 122 Washington, Timothy 9, 28, 48 White, Charles 15, 23, 35, 44, 64, 76, 84, 85, 86, 92, 99, 100, 104, 108, 110, 114, 117, 120, 123, 127 Wilberforce, Ohio 81, 89, 96, 103, 109, 116, 122, 128 Williams, Ruby 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126 Willis, Deborah 94, 102, 107 Wilmington, Delaware 82, 90, 97 Wilson, John 86, 92, 100 Winston-Salem, North Carolina 18, 39, 59 Winston-Salem State University 18, 39, 59 Woodmere Art Museum 14, 35 Woodruff, Hale 23, 44, 64, 76, 84, 92, 99, 104, 110, 114, 117, 121, 123, 127 Woodson Regional Library (Chicago Public Library) 4, 21, 42, 62, 75, 83, 91, 98, 105, 111, 118, 124
Y
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 57, 72, 80, 88, 95 Young, Purvis 16, 37, 56, 71, 79, 87, 95, 102, 108, 114, 120, 126
U
University of Maryland 24, 45, 64, 76
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Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland

830 East Pratt Street

Baltimore, Maryland 21202 443/ 263-1800 www.africanamericanculture.org emailus@maamc.org

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

Chicago State University Presidents Gallery

Cook Administration Building 3rd floor

Al Tyler: Paintings, Drawings and Prints January 28 February 28, 2009

Miami-Dade Public Library System Main Library-Auditorium Color All

The Studio Museum in Harlem

PROJECT SPACE: SHINIQUE SMITH

On view through March 15, 2009

2006 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 215/ 636-9003 www.artswg@aol.com

2629 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20008 202/ 234-5112 www.inter-visions.com Intvisions@aol.com

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

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture

February 20 June 14, 2009

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

110 North Peoria Chicago, Illinois 60607 312/ 563-9240 www.grnnamdi.com

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

Miami-Dade Public Library System Main Library-Auditorium Color All

Stella Jones Gallery Elizabeth Catlett: Drawings, Six Decades

On view through February 28, 2009

The Studio Museum in Harlem

On view through March 15, 2009

2006 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 215/ 636-9003 www.artswg@aol.com

Beaded Prayers Project On view through March 1, 2009

1515 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 202/ 234-5601 www.hemphillfinearts.com

2629 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20008 202/ 234-5112 www.inter-visions.com Intvisions@aol.com

On view through April 12, 2009

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

110 North Peoria Chicago, Illinois 60607 312/ 563-9240 www.grnnamdi.com

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

Miami-Dade Public Library System Main Library-Auditorium Color All

On view through April 12, 2009

The Studio Museum in Harlem

On view through March 15, 2009

Joyce Gordon Gallery

406 14th Street

Oakland, California 94612 510/ 465-8928 www.joycegordongallery.com jvbgg@sbcglobal.net

Joyce Gordon Gallery Main Gallery I nt er se c t i o na l i t y of Si s t er s March 6 April 1, 2009

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

On view through March 21, 2009

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

9525 S. Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60628 312/745-2080 http://www.chipublib.org/ eventsprog/programs/exhibits.php

110 North Peoria Chicago, Illinois 60607 312/ 563-9240 www.grnnamdi.com

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

American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/ art/Gallery/index.html apackar1@swarthmore.edu

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

some have made in the line of duty.

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

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

American Masters of the Mississippi

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

312/745-2080 http://www.chipublib.org/ eventsprog/programs/exhibits.php

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

American Masters of the Mississippi Gulf

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

On view through February 28, 2010

Wilberforce, Ohio 45384 937/ 376-4944

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

American Masters of the Mississippi