Sentences with phrase «african american history»

In celebration of the grand opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Afro Frontal will feature illustrations, paintings, and photography by a collective of artists of African descent.

Versions of «Unite» are also in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

This year alone, Smith has had work in the Whitney Biennial, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and, through Oct. 29, a show at the Art Institute of Chicago; in the fall, for Expo Chicago, she'll have an installation at the DuSable Museum of African American History.

Adjaye is quite the big thing in the US, where he is involved in iconic projects such as the $ 500m scheme to design the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.

Say It Loud: Art, History, Rebellion, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan, 2017

The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture will feature a foodways exhibition in its cultural galleries.

Currently he is a DCASE / Joyce Foundation Studio Artist in Residence producing a collaborative public project with Faheem Majeed and Andrew Schachman called Floating Museum in partnership with the DuSable Museum of African American History slated to launch in summer 2016.

His image displayed in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., is called «Strange Fruit,» after the Billie Holiday song about lynchings of African - Americans.

African American history, collective memory, Leslie Hewitt, Lorna Simpson, photoconceptualism, photography, race theory

A painting by Williams introduces the visual art galleries at the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.

Under the Cover THE SEEN launches Issue 05 in print, featuring Bouchra Khalili on the cover to align with her inclusion in Singing Stones, the Palais de Tokyo's first United States off - site exhibition at the Dusable Museum of African American History, with the Institut français.

Award - winning artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer Bill T. Jones makes a rare Chicago appearance in a free presentation at the DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 East 56th Place (57th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue), Friday evening, January 27, at 7 p.m., in association with the Alphawood Foundation's groundbreaking visual arts exhibition

Collect: The Power of Knowing, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan, 2015 — 2016

His imposing, radiant paintings and installations draw equally upon African American history and the history of Western art.

Interview David Adjaye meets his match with the most important commission of his career to date, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC

Recent exhibitions include Singing Stones, organized by the Palais de Tokyo at the Roundhouse at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Unthought Environments at the Renaissance Society, and Bearable Lightness of Being at GRIMM Gallery in Amsterdam, where he will present a solo exhibition this Spring at their New York space.

He plans the series as a preemptive response to what he rightly assumes will be the exclusion of African American history and identity in the upcoming celebrations for the 1976 American Bicentennial.

He has also participated in group exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and our ownCranbrook Art Museum.

Tiff Massey (Metalsmithing» 11) was recently awarded a $ 200,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant for her tentatively titled «Spring» art installation at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

Recommended reading After years of planning, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is finally set to open on 24 September.

< NEWS U.S. Postal Service celebrates Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture with the Oct. 13 issuance of new Forever stamp featuring an image of the museum's iconic building.

Two presentations in Washington, D.C., «The Card Series II: The Rounds,» a 54 - part installation in the visual art gallery of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and «Whitfield Lovell: The Kin Series and Related Works,» a traveling exhibition currently on view at the Phillips Collection, have brought new attention to his work.

African American history was of the utmost importance to Lawrence.

David Rubenstein, the co-founder and co-CEO of the Carlyle Group who donated $ 10 million to the National Museum of African American History and Culture earlier this year, has been named chairman of the governing board of the Smithsonian Institution.

Based on diligent research and inspired by Harlem Renaissance artists Augusta Savage and Charles Alston, Jacob Lawrence illustrated African American history through colorful narrative paintings.

With shamanistic inspiration from both African American history and art history, many of Johnson's more recent works employ these materials in a way that suggests an indefinite form of mysticism and a role as devotional objects.

APPOINTMENT The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture names Kenneth I. Chenault Chairman of its Advisory Council (Feb. 6).

Or how about helping those on your list to support art institutions and enhance their cultural life with a gift of membership to the forthcoming Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Studio Museum in Harlem or their favorite local art museum?

Along with four generations of her family, Bonner helped open Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture by ringing a historic Baptist church bell with President Obama.

Won a Guggenheim, exhibited at the opening of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture and mentioned in the New York Times article about the museum, honored by the Hirshhorn museum at their spring gala, won the Moving Image Art Award and museum acquisition by 21 Century Museum, several solo museum exhibitions numerous acclaimed performances and group exhibitions, included in Shanghai Biennial, currently showing at Yale University Art Gallery.

She was instrumental in the creation of the Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center at Monticello which opened in 2009 and was co-curator of the exhibition «Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: Paradox of Liberty,» on view at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture through October 2012 and opening at the Atlanta History Center in February.

NEWS Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture marks one - year anniversary on Sept. 24 with a weekend of special activities and programming.

Is that crusty, black expanse a challenge to formalism, African American history, or the viewer?

These blunt objects could recover African American history or appropriate it for the present.

1983 John Biggers: Bridges, California Museum of African American History and Culture, Los Angeles, CA Boats and Bridges, Sutton's Black Heritage Gallery, Houston, TX

As construction of his design for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. nears its completion, slated for next year, and news of Adjaye's selection to redesign the Studio Museum in Harlem, where a solo exhibition of his work Making Public Buildings was presented in 2007, the Art Institute's exhibition context is important to Adjaye's buildings, which continue to identify him in the United States.

Binion has also participated in many group exhibitions, including Prospect.3 in New Orleans (2015), and his work is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, and Whitney Museum of American Art, among other institutions.

Personal history is primary in works such as Radcliffe Bailey's Tricky 3 (2011), a multilayered piece that employs collage and explores both African American history and influences on the artist, and Trenton Doyle Hancock's 548 First Street N.E. (2012), an autobiographical portfolio based on the artist's childhood memories of his grandmother's house.

Expo Chicago, the annual art fair, is partnering with Paris's Palais de Tokyo to exhibit work by 11 emerging artists from France and Chicago at the DuSable Museum of African American History (September 13 — October 29).

John Outterbridge mixes collage, biography, and African American history, with allusions to slavery in rural shack, African emblems, and a poster warning escaped slaves.

Rashid Johnson finds an African American history as yet unwritten.

THE SEEN launches Issue 05 in print, featuring Bouchra Khalili on the cover to align with her inclusion in Singing Stones, the Palais de Tokyo's first United States off - site exhibition at the Dusable Museum of African American History, with the Institut français.

2009 Collecting African American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY; Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore, MD; I.P. Stanback Museum & Planetarium, Orangeburg, SC; Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL; Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL; National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA; Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, MI; Dusable Museum of African & American History, Chicago, IL

African American history also defines a jug bearing a threatening lock and dried tobacco leaves.

His hallmark is the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) currently under construction on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and slated to open in 2016.

1999 Locating the Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in African - American Art, Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Atlanta, GA; North Carolina Central University Art Museum, Durham, NC; Fisk University with Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN; Hampton University, Hampton, VA; Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, IL

His research interests include 20th century African American history, gender and sexuality studies, and black cultural studies.

Other works in the collections of the Portland Museum, Newark Museum and the New Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D. C. Lautenberg is an accomplished and respected artist and photographer who has exhibited her work on the East End over the last ten years.

Shikeith's public programs and group and solo exhibitions have been held at national and international venues such as the MAK Gallery in London; the Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit; MoMA, the Aperture Foundation, and the Vera List Center in New York City; Pittsburgh's Kelly - Strayhorn Theatre; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Morehouse College in Atlanta; the Seattle Art Museum; and the Wrocław Contemporary Museum in Poland, among others.

His most signi cant project to date, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC (2016), opens on 24 September.