Guide to Black Art Exhibitions 2006

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Guide to Black ArtExhibitions in 2006

Introduction

TheGuide to Black Art Exhibitionsin 2006is a comprehensiveselection of art exhibitions in the United States of America. This, thethird in a series of this Guide, has a twofold purpose. If you plan totravel within the United States and you visit one of the cities listed, takean excursion to the featured museum(s) in that city and enjoy theexhibition(s). If you discover an exhibition that is not included or finderrors in this Guide, please send an e-mail to [email protected] or [email protected]. It isrecommended that you telephone, e-mail, or visit the venues web sitein advance to confirm that the exhibition will be on view when you planto visit. Its second major purpose is to provide documentation, in onesource, of the exhibition history of African American art exhibitions inmuseums, large commercial galleries, and cultural centers across thecountry. This documentation does not exist in any other source.

The Guide is currently produced by George-McKinley Martin ofBlack ArtProject. We hope that the Guide will encourage more people to visit andenjoy exhibitions of African American art. It is hoped that strong supportof these exhibitions will encourage more museums to mount exhibitionsof the works of African American artists either as a theme or included inother major subject/theme related exhibitions.

How to Use This Guide

The Guideis arranged by month.

All entries are in alphabetical order by city.

Each time an exhibition appears in the Guide, it is given a fullentry. The first line of a full entry (left column) includes the

museum/gallery site, followed by the name of the exhibition inbold print, the inclusive dates of the exhibition, a brief descriptionof the exhibition. The right column includes additional information-- address, telephone number, web site and/or e-mail addresseswhen they exist-- to help make your contact or visit easier.

When an exhibition continues to subsequent months, there is a fullentry under each of those months and it includes the

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museum/gallery site, the title of the exhibition, its ending date,and a brief description, as well as the appropriate contactinformation.

January

Andover

Addison Gallery of American ArtPortraits of a People: PicturingAfrican Americans in theNineteenth Century

January 14 - March 14, 2006

Portraits of a People looks critically atimages made of and by African Americansand the role those images have played inestablishing and fostering racial identityduring a period of radical social change. Thislandmark exhibition, and its accompanyingpublication, features approximately 75 worksranging from paintings, photographs, andsilhouette profiles to book frontispieces andpopular prints.

Phillips Academy180 Main Street

Andover, Massachusetts 01810-4161978/ 749-4015

www.andover.edu/[email protected]

Ann Arbor

The University of Michigan Museum ofArtBetye Saar: Extending the Frozen

MomentOn view through January 8, 2006

Throughout her career, Betye Saar has madeart that challenges us to think about oursocietal responses to race and to the historyof race in the United States. Though politicallytrenchant, Saars work moves beyond protestto encompass a profound spirituality and anawareness of the things that link humanbeings across cultural lines and across time.This exhibition examines Saars achievementby focusing on her work with photography,

specifically, her incorporation of photographicfragments as a metaphor for her view of theAfrican American experience and of lives toooften obscured in American visual history.

525 South State Streetcorner of South State and South

University

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109734/ 764-0395

www.umma.umich.edu

Asheville

Asheville Art Museum 2 South Pack Square at Pack Place

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Kickin' It with Joyce J. ScottJanuary 28 - March 16, 2006

This 30-year retrospective of 60 workscreated since 1970 includes sculpture,jewelry, prints, and textiles as well as videos

and photographs of Scott's performance andinstallation work, making for an excellentoverview of her varied and potent artisticcareer. Kickin' It with Joyce J. Scottis avisually dazzling and intellectually challengingretrospective of the work of an importantAmerican artist.

Asheville, North Carolina 28802-1717828/ 253-3227

[email protected]

Atlanta

Hammond House GalleriesRenee StoutOn view through January 7, 2006Renee Stout's work focuses on the process ofempowering and healing rituals by looking atbelief systems and actions that variousAfrican peoples and their New Worlddescendants have adopted to influence theircircumstances. Stout explores the rich cultureof traditional healing and the restorativepower of music as a creative base. Sheassembles and creates a wide range ofevocative objectives, material, symbols andsubjects to suggest multiple layers of AfricanAmerican culture and history.

503 Peeples Street, SWAtlanta, Georgia 30310

404/ 752-8730www.hammondshouse.org

Spelman College Museum of Fine ArtAmalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons and

the BluesJanuary 26 - May 13, 2006

Incorporating engaging themes, accessibleimages, common materials and wise humor,Amalia Amakis art disrupts and challengesconventional ideas about culture, race andAmerican history. For more than threedecades, this Atlanta-based artist hasgarnered acclaim for her mixed media quilts,button-encrusted souvenirs and manipulatedphotographs.Amalia Amaki: Boxes,Buttons and the Bluesis a collaborationbetween the National Museum of Women inthe Arts and the Spelman College Museum ofFine Art.

350 Spelman Lane, SWAtlanta, Georgia 30314

404/ 270-5607www.spelman.edu/museum

[email protected]

Baltimore

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The Baltimore Museum of ArtHenry Ossawa Tanner and theLure of ParisOn view through May 28, 2006

The first African-American artist to achieveinternational acclaim, Henry Ossawa Tannerspent more than half his life in France andwas inspired by a broad range of artisticstyles. Featuring four major paintings byTanner on loan from the Des Moines ArtCenter, this exhibition presents more than 60paintings, drawings, photographs, and printsby French and European artists who werelikely influences, including Eugne Delacroix,Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant, and CamillePissarro. These works, along with recentTanner acquisitions from the BMA's collection,will also showcase the artist's fascination with

religious subjects, landscapes, andOrientalism.

10 Art Museum DriveArt Museum Drive at North Charles

and 31st StreetsBaltimore, Maryland 21218-3898

410/ 396-7100

www.artbma.org

Boston

Boston University Art GallerySyncopated Rhythms: 20th

Century African American Artfrom the George and Joyce WeinCollectionOn view through January 22, 2006

The exhibition, Syncopated Rhythms: 20th-Century African American Art from theCollection of George and Joyce Wein , willshowcase the Weins outstanding collection ofsixty-five works including paintings, sculpture,drawings and a contemporary quilt. This isthe first time the collection will be shownpublicly.

855 Commonwealth AvenueBoston, Massachusetts 02215

617/ 353-4672www.bu.edu/[email protected]

Chapel Hill

The Ackland Art MuseumFamily Legacies: The Art of Betye,Lezley and Alison SaarOn view through March 26, 2006

The exhibition will feature thirty-six objects,including mixed media sculptures,assemblages, collages and a collaborativeinstallation created by the Saars. Twelve key

The University of North CarolinaCampus Box 3400

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3400

919/ 966-5736www.ackland.org

[email protected]

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works by each artist, representing the fullchronological range and stylistic evolution oftheir oeuvre, will be arranged according tooverlapping themes that underline the artists'family ties, multi-racial heritage and strongaffinities to nature and African cultures. Theworks demonstrate a desire to reclaim the

visual representation of African Americanwomen by exploring subjects includingslavery, stereotypes of domestic labor andcontentious historical images of the femalebody.

Doylestown

James A. Michener Art MuseumWachovia GalleryRomare Bearden: Enchanter inTimeOn view through February 5, 2006

Romare Bearden filled his work with thesymbols and myths of the American blackexperience. Drawing from a variety of literary,musical, and historical sources, Bearden oftenemployed a collage-like technique that fusedmany different elements, almost like a jigsawpuzzle. But unlike a puzzle, each element hada poetic and symbolic meaning. Shortlybefore he died, Bearden said that workingdirectly with fragments of the past madethem more immediate and relevant.

138 South Pine StreetDoylestown, Pennsylvania 18901

215/ 340-9800www.michenermuseum.org

[email protected]

Easton

William Center for the ArtsWilliam Center Art GalleryDavid C. Driskell: Reflections andMemories


As a leading authority on African AmericanArt, Driskells workpaintings, prints, and

collages will be exhibitedoften reflects hiscomplex experiences dealing with race in thiscountry. He is a Distinguished UniversityProfessor Emeritus of Art at University ofMaryland, College Park, and has maintainedan active career as a practicing artist, arthistorian, curator and collector.

Lafayette CollegeEaston, Pennsylvania 18042

610/ [email protected]

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Fargo

Plains Art MuseumJane L Stern GalleryJacob Lawrence: Three Series ofPrintsOn view through January 8, 2006

Since his first published print in 1963, JacobLawrence has produced a body of prints thatis both highly dramatic and intenselypersonal. In his graphic work- as in his well-known and famous paintings-Lawrence hasturned to the lessons of history and to his ownexperience. From depictions of civil rightsconfrontations to scenes of daily life, theseimages present a vision of a common struggletoward unity and equality, a universalstruggle deeply seated in the depths of thehuman consciousness.

704 1st Avenue NorthFargo, North Dakota 58102

701/ 232-3821www.plainsart.org

Greensboro

University GalleriesH. C. Taylor GalleryJames McMillan: RetrospectiveImages and Impressions

January 13 March 3, 2006

North Carolina A&T State UniversityDudley Building

1601 East Market StreetGreensboro, North Carolina 27411

336/ 334-3209http://www.ncat.edu/

%7emuseum/[email protected]

Hampton

Hampton University MuseumThe Art of Elizabeth Catlett:Selections from the HamptonUniversity Collection

January 27 July 29, 2006

Pulled from the collection of the HamptonUniversity Museum, this exhibition will featureworks on paper and sculpture by worldrenowned artist Elizabeth Catlett. Artist,educator, social and political activist theworks represented in this exhibition show theimportance of Catlett as a majorcontemporary international artist.

Huntington BuildingHampton, Virginia 23668

757/727-5308www.hamptonu.edu/museum

[email protected]

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Hartford

The Amistad Foundation at the

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtDouble ExposureJanuary 14-June 18, 2006

The exhibition while providing a generaloverview of the development of photography,will present very fine examples from ourcollection of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes,tintypes, albumen, and gelatin prints; and theprovocative photographs and art forms ofcontemporary photographers. Varying themesencompassing the photographic processes,the history of races and racism in America,and contemporary explorations inphotography of identity and history will alsobe discussed through related programs.

600 Main Street

Hartford, Connecticut 06103-2990860/ 278-2670www.theamistadfoundation.org

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtMoved by Music: Herbert GentryOn view through October 29, 2006

Drawn from The Amistad Centers collection,this exhibition showcases never seen printsbased on original paintings and drawings byHerbert Gentry (1919-2003). The exhibit willalso highlight works from the G. R. NNamdiGallery and from the personal collection ofGentrys widow, Mary Ann Rose. Gentry isbest known for his figurative abstractions thatwere inspired by the spontaneous rhythmicexpressions of jazz. Faces were a recurrenttheme found in his works, which the artistsaid are intended to symbolize the family ofman.

600 Main StreetHartford, Connecticut 06103

860/ 278-2670www.wadsworthatheneum.org

[email protected]

Henderson

Clark County Heritage MuseumRecoverd Views: African-American Portraits, 1912-1925On view through March 10,2006

Recovered Views features 40black-and-white portraits attributedto John Johnson, an African American

1830 South Boulder HighwayHenderson, Nevada 89015

702/ 455-7955www.co.clark.nv.us/parks/clark_county_muse

um.htm

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photographer who lived and workedin Lincoln, Nebraska in the early partof the 20th century. These portraitsare more than just stunning images;they document life in a vibrant blackcommunity in a small Midwesterncity, a society rarely depicted in any

medium.

Houston

Contemporary Arts Museum HoustonGlenn Ligon: Some Changes

January 14 April 2, 2006

Glenn Ligons works examine how the socialand political history of the United States hassubtly yet definitively shaped Americansidentities. Incorporating text from sources asdiverse as James Baldwin and Richard Pryor,Ligon uses existing language to explore thevalue systems and influence of Americanculture, as well as how broad generalizationsof race, gender, and sexuality pervasivelyaffect personal experience. This surveyexhibition includes his landmark textpaintings, sculpture, prints, installations,videos, and mixed-media work, as well as newwork commissioned for this project.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Caroline Wiess Law BuildingBasquiatOn view through February 12, 2006

During the tragically brief life of Jean-MichelBasquiat (19601988), he created a distinctstyle of painting that involved language, a setof repeated personal symbols, and a rhythmicharmony of surface based on a loosely girdedpicture plane. This traveling exhibition marksthe first serious examination of Basquiatswork by an American museum. Basquiatcomprises 67 paintings, many drawn fromEuropean collections, and 36 drawings, all ofwhich examine the artists work in the contextof his role as the last Modernist.

5216 Montrose BoulevardHouston, Texas 77006-6598


1001 Bissonnet StreetHouston, Texas 77005

713/ 639-7300

[email protected]

Johnstown

Southern Alleghenies Museum of ArtA Symphony of Color: The Lyrical

Pasquerilla Performing ArtsCenter

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Paintings of Joseph HolstonOn view through March 5, 2006

University of Pittsburg at JohnstownJohnstown, Pennsylvania 15904

814/ 269-7234www.sama-art.org

Lakeland

Polk Museum of ArtDorothy Jenkins and Emily S. MaceyGalleriesCarrie Mae Weems: The LouisianaProjectOn view through February 12, 2006

The Louisiana Projectincorporates stillphotography, sound and video projection aspart of an exploration of culture, gender, and

race. The exhibition features dozens of largescale photographs that evoke the courtly,European image of eighteenth century NewOrleans society but are charged with Weemssignature edge- silhouetted figures in perioddress, masked men and women engaged inprovocative and ambiguous interactions.

800 East Palmetto StreetLakeland, Florida 33801-5529


Lexington

University of Kentucky Art MuseumSingletary Center for the Arts

Afterburn - Willie Cole: SelectedWorks 1997 2004


In his assemblage, installation and wallworks, Willie Cole (b. 1955) transformsordinary, domestic objects such as bicycleparts, irons, and lawn jockeys into powerfulworks embedded with references to theAfrican-American experience and inspired byWest African religion, mythology, andculture. The fifteen works included in theexhibition include examples of Colessculptures, scorched canvases, and irisprints.

Rose Street and Euclid AvenueLexington, Kentucky 40506-0241

859/ 257-5716www.uky.edu/ArtMuseum

Los Angeles

California African American MuseumMilton Bowens Writings on the

600 State DriveExposition Park

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WallsOn view through March 5, 2006

For the first time in Los Angeles, theCalifornia African American Museum presentsthe selected works of northern Californiaartist and social commentator Milton Bowens.Born and raised in Oakland, this painter,teacher and radio host has been inspired byBasquiat, Bearden, Rauschenberg and Haring.With a critical eye, vibrant color, collage, andboth hand-written and printed text, the artistreflects upon personal recollections andpivotal moments of African American historyin his search for truth, pride and culturalfreedom.

Los Angeles, California 90037213/ 744-7432

www.caamuseum.org

California African American MuseumThe Whole Worlds Watching:

Peace and Social JusticeMovements of the 1960s and1970sOn view through February 10, 2006

The Whole Worlds Watching examinesthe rich history of the social movements ofthe 1960s and 1970s through 90documentary photographs. The brutality ofracial injustice, the courage of the weakchallenging the powerful, the tragedy of fallenheroes, the horrors of war, the rage ofstudents, and excesses of the Summer of

Love all touched Americans through thepictures in Life and Look, the newspapers,and television sets.



www.caamuseum.org

Macon

Tubman African American MuseumPictures from Home: Six AfricanAmerican Studio Photographers inthe South, 1900-1950On view through January 8, 2006

Pictures from Home examines the creationand use of photography by and for AfricanAmerican individuals, families and groupsduring a fifty year periods when Jim Crow andnegative racial stereotyping still prevailed inthe South. The exhibition features 120images by six gifted studio photographers andself-made entrepreneurs, each of whomenjoyed significant and lasting careers withintheir own respective communities. The

340 Walnut StreetMacon, Georgia 31201

478/ 743-8544www.tubmanmuseum.com

[email protected]

[email protected]

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Picture Stories celebrates the talents andcreativity of African American artists whoillustrate childrens picture books. Theexhibition features exciting work by twelveAmerican illustrators of African heritage whocapture daily life as well as extraordinaryperseverance and talent of Black American

heroes. History, folktales, and the emergenceof jazz are explored in the color paintings,collage, scratchboard and mixed media piecesfeatured in the exhibition.

Nashville

The ParthenonCarlton Wilkinson, Coming Home:A RetrospectiveEast Gallery

On view through February 11, 2006Nationally acclaimed Nashville photographer,Carlton Wilkinson, exhibits a compilation ofseries created over the past 25 years.

Centennial ParkNashville, Tennessee 37201

615/ 862-8431www.nashville.gov/parthenon/Gallerie

[email protected]

New York

The New-York Historical SocietySlavery in New YorkOn view through March 5, 2006

The story of New York's rootedness in theenslavement of Africans is largely unknown tothe general public. For the last 30 years,scholars here and abroad have recoveredmany fascinating details of the hidden worldsof New York's enslaved people. Among therichest sources for that new scholarship havebeen the library and museum collections ofthe New-York Historical Society. Otherimportant materials reside in the New YorkState Library in Albany, the SchomburgCenter, the Municipal Archives, and the GilderLehrman Collection, now on deposit at N-YHS.

The Studio Museum in HarlemFrequencyOn view through March 12, 2006

Frequencywill feature art work by thirty ofthe hottest emerging, black artists of 2005!

170 Central Park WestNew York, New York 10024

212/ 873-3400www.nyhistory.org

144 West 125th StreetNew York, New York 10027

212/ 864-4500www.studiomuseum.org

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Living and working in the United States andranging in age from 25 to 42, theirinspirations and influences range from hip hopvideos and folktales, to baseball stars andAbstract Expressionism, to tattoo design andnon-western aesthetics.

Oberlin

The Allen Memorial Art MuseumPortraits of the Black ExperienceOn view through June 4, 2006

What does it mean for a Black artist torepresent him or herself? Portraits of theBlack Experience includes twenty works byAfrican-American artists that quietly infuserepresentations of Black life andconsciousness with individualism and passion.This exhibition, which investigates Blackartists cultural heritage in powerful images,complements a wide range of subjectsaddressed by courses being taught this fall inthe African American StudiesDepartment.

Oberlin College87 North Main StreetOberlin, Ohio 44074

440/ 775-8665www.oberlin.edu/allenart

Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of ArtDorrance Special Exhibition Galleries,first floorBeauford Delaney: From New Yorkto ParisOn view through January 29, 2006

Beauford Delaney: From New York toParisexplores Delaneys dramatic stylisticshift from figurative compositions of New Yorklife to abstract expressionist studies of colorand light following his move to Paris in 1953.Approximately fifty paintings, includingseveral never before exhibited, illuminatesome of Delaney's most innovative years andfirmly place his work among the dominant artmovements of the day.

26th Street and the Benjamin FranklinParkway

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19130215/ 763-8100

www.philamuseum.org/main.asp

Princeton

Princeton University Art MuseumBetween Image and Concept:Recent Acquisitions in African-American Art

Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1018609/ 258-3788

www.princetonartmuseum.org

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On view through February 26, 2005

This selection of recently acquired works indifferent media by a broad range of artists,including Henry Ossawa Tanner, CharlesWhite, Kara Walker, and Leonardo Drew,spans the early twentieth century to the

present

Ridgefield

The Aldrich Contemporary Art MuseumFred Wilson: Black Like Me2002 Larry Aldrich Foundation AwardExhibitionOn view through January 8, 2006

Fred Wilson will mount a solo exhibition in

conjunction with the Award of new workbased around his growing interest in themedium of glass. As the Americanrepresentative at the 2003 Venice Biennale,Wilson produced a large body of work much ofwhich was made in collaboration with glasstechnicians from the legendary glass makingcenter of Murano in Venice. Wilsons interestin history, especially as it is revealed throughobjects, will come into play in this newinstallation for The Aldrich.

258 Main StreetRidgefield, Connecticut 06877

203/ 438-4519www.aldrichart.org

Stevenson

Villa Julie Art GalleryDon Griffin: A State of MindOn view through January 7, 2006

Baltimore artist Don Griffin was the firstrecipient of an award by Friends of the Arts inBaltimore that provided him with a studio andmeans to focus on his work. Already widelyshown throughout the region Griffin willexhibit the results of a years uninterruptedpainting.

Villa Julie College1525 Greenspring Valley Road

Stevenson, Maryland 21153443/ 334-2163

www.vjc.edu/newsandevents/art_gallery.aspx

[email protected]

Washington, DC

The Corcoran Gallery of ArtSam Gilliam: A RetrospectiveOn view through January 22, 2006

This exhibition marks the first full-scale

500 17th Street, NWWashington, DC 20006

202/ 639-1700www.corcoran.org

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retrospective of the art of Sam Gilliam.Featuring approximately 50 of Gilliam'spaintings, elaborate mixed-mediaconstructions and installations,ARetrospective is a celebration of amagisterial post-1960s artist, and one of themost important artists to have lived and

worked in Washington, DC.

Worcester

Worcester Art MuseumAFTERBURN-Willie Cole: SelectedWorks, 1997-2004On view through January 7, 2006

In his assemblage, installation and wallworks, Willie Cole (b. 1955) transforms

ordinary, domestic objects such as bicycleparts, irons, and lawn jockeys into powerfulworks embedded with references to theAfrican-American experience and inspired byWest African religion, mythology, andculture. The fifteen works included in theexhibition include examples of Colessculptures, scorched canvases, and irisprints.

55 Salisbury StreetWorcester, Massachusetts 01609

508/ 799-4406www.worcesterart.org

February

Andover

Addison Gallery of American ArtPortraits of a People: PicturingAfrican Americans in theNineteenth CenturyOn view through March 14, 2006

Portraits of a People looks critically atimages made of and by African Americansand the role those images have played in

establishing and fostering racial identityduring a period of radical social change. Thislandmark exhibition, and its accompanyingpublication, features approximately 75 worksranging from paintings, photographs, andsilhouette profiles to book frontispieces andpopular prints.


Andover, Massachusetts 01810-4161978/ 749-4015

www.andover.edu/[email protected]

Asheville

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Asheville Art MuseumKickin' It with Joyce J. ScottOn view through March 16, 2006

This 30-year retrospective of 60 workscreated since 1970 includes sculpture,jewelry, prints, and textiles as well as videosand photographs of Scott's performance andinstallation work, making for an excellentoverview of her varied and potent artisticcareer. Kickin' It with Joyce J. Scottis avisually dazzling and intellectually challengingretrospective of the work of an importantAmerican artist.

2 South Pack Square at Pack PlaceAsheville, North Carolina 28802-1717

828/ 253-3227www.ashevilleart.org

[email protected]

Atlanta

Clark Atlanta University Art GalleriesTrevor Arnett Hall, 2nd floorFreddie Styles: EvolvingFebruary 5 July 23, 2006

Clark Atlanta University Art GalleriesTrevor Arnett Hall, 2nd floorSelections from the PermanentCollectionFebruary 5 December 2006

223 James P. Brawley Drive, SWAtlanta, Georgia 30314

404/ 880-6102www.cau.edu/artgalleries




the BluesOn view through May 13, 2006

Incorporating engaging themes, accessibleimages, common materials and wise humor,Amalia Amakis art disrupts and challengesconventional ideas about culture, race andAmerican history. For more than threedecades, this Atlanta-based artist has



[email protected]

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garnered acclaim for her mixed media quilts,button-encrusted souvenirs and manipulatedphotographs.

Baltimore


The first African-American artist to achieveinternational acclaim, Henry Ossawa Tannerspent more than half his life in France andwas inspired by a broad range of artisticstyles. Featuring four major paintings byTanner on loan from the Des Moines ArtCenter, this exhibition presents more than 60

paintings, drawings, photographs, and printsby French and European artists who werelikely influences, including Eugne Delacroix,Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant, and CamillePissarro. These works, along with recentTanner acquisitions from the BMA's collection,will also showcase the artist's fascination withreligious subjects, landscapes, andOrientalism.



410/ 396-7100www.artbma.org

Chapel Hill


The exhibition will feature thirty-six objects,including mixed media sculptures,assemblages, collages and a collaborativeinstallation created by the Saars. Twelve keyworks by each artist, representing the fullchronological range and stylistic evolution oftheir oeuvre, will be arranged according tooverlapping themes that underline the artists'

family ties, multi-racial heritage and strongaffinities to nature and African cultures. Theworks demonstrate a desire to reclaim thevisual representation of African Americanwomen by exploring subjects includingslavery, stereotypes of domestic labor andcontentious historical images of the femalebody.

The University of North CarolinaCampus Box 3400Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-

3400919/ 966-5736

[email protected]

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Doylestown

James A. Michener Art MuseumWachovia GalleryRomare Bearden: Enchanter inTimeOn view through February 5, 2006

Romare Bearden filled his work with thesymbols and myths of the American blackexperience. Drawing from a variety of literary,musical, and historical sources, Bearden oftenemployed a collage-like technique that fusedmany different elements, almost like a jigsawpuzzle. But unlike a puzzle, each element hada poetic and symbolic meaning. Shortlybefore he died, Bearden said that workingdirectly with fragments of the past madethem more immediate and relevant.

138 South Pine StreetDoylestown, Pennsylvania 18901

215/ 340-9800www.michenermuseum.org

[email protected]

Easton

William Center for the ArtsWilliam Center Art GalleryDavid C. Driskell: Reflections andMemoriesOn view through March 12, 2006

As a leading authority on African AmericanArt, Driskells workpaintings, prints, and

collages will be exhibitedoften reflects hiscomplex experiences dealing with race in thiscountry. He is a Distinguished UniversityProfessor Emeritus of Art at University ofMaryland, College Park, and has maintainedan active career as a practicing artist, arthistorian, curator and collector.

Lafayette CollegeEaston, Pennsylvania 18042


Evanston

Dittmar Memorial Art GalleryNorris University Center, 1st floorTerry Dixon: Jazz on CanvasFebruary 12- March 19, 2006

Northwestern University1999 Campus Drive

Evanston, Illinois 60208847/ 491-2348

www.norris.northwestern.edu/nbsm_dittmar.php

[email protected]

Greensboro

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University GalleriesH. C. Taylor GalleryJames McMillan: RetrospectiveImages and ImpressionsOn view through March 3, 2006



336/ 334-3209

http://www.ncat.edu/%7emuseum/index.html

[email protected]

Hampton

Hampton University MuseumThe Art of Elizabeth Catlett:Selections from the HamptonUniversity CollectionOn view through July 29, 2006

Pulled from the collection of the HamptonUniversity Museum, this exhibition will featureworks on paper and sculpture by worldrenowned artist Elizabeth Catlett. Artist,educator, social and political activist theworks represented in this exhibition show the

importance of Catlett as a majorcontemporary international artist.



[email protected]

Hartford

The Amistad Foundation at theWadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtDouble ExposureOn view through June 18, 2006

The exhibition while providing a generaloverview of the development of photography,will present very fine examples from ourcollection of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes,tintypes, albumen, and gelatin prints; and theprovocative photographs and art forms ofcontemporary photographers. Varying themesencompassing the photographic processes,the history of races and racism in America,and contemporary explorations inphotography of identity and history will also

600 Main StreetHartford, Connecticut 06103-2990

860/ 278-2670www.theamistadfoundation.org

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be discussed through related programs.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtMoved by Music: Herbert Gentry

On view through October 29, 2006

Drawn from The Amistad Centers collection,this exhibition showcases never seen printsbased on original paintings and drawings byHerbert Gentry (1919-2003). The exhibit willalso highlight works from the G. R. NNamdiGallery and from the personal collection ofGentrys widow, Mary Ann Rose. Gentry isbest known for his figurative abstractions thatwere inspired by the spontaneous rhythmicexpressions of jazz. Faces were a recurrenttheme found in his works, which the artistsaid are intended to symbolize the family of

man.



[email protected]

Henderson

Clark County Heritage MuseumRecoverd Views: African-American Portraits, 1912-1925On view through March 10,2006

Recovered Views features 40black-and-white portraits attributedto John Johnson, an African Americanphotographer who lived and workedin Lincoln, Nebraska in the early partof the 20th century. These portraitsare more than just stunning images;they document life in a vibrant blackcommunity in a small Midwesterncity, a society rarely depicted in anymedium.



um.htm

Houston

Contemporary Arts Museum HoustonGlenn Ligon: Some ChangesOn view through April 2, 2006

Glenn Ligons works examine how the socialand political history of the United States hassubtly yet definitively shaped Americans



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identities. Incorporating text from sources asdiverse as James Baldwin and Richard Pryor,Ligon uses existing language to explore thevalue systems and influence of Americanculture, as well as how broad generalizationsof race, gender, and sexuality pervasivelyaffect personal experience. This survey

exhibition includes his landmark textpaintings, sculpture, prints, installations,videos, and mixed-media work, as well as newwork commissioned for this project.

The Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonThe Caroline Wiess Law BuildingBasquiatOn view through February 12, 2006

During the tragically brief life of Jean-MichelBasquiat (19601988), he created a distinctstyle of painting that involved language, a setof repeated personal symbols, and a rhythmicharmony of surface based on a loosely girdedpicture plane. This traveling exhibition marksthe first serious examination of Basquiatswork by an American museum. Basquiatcomprises 67 paintings, many drawn fromEuropean collections, and 36 drawings, all ofwhich examine the artists work in the contextof his role as the last Modernist.

1001 Bissonnet StreetHouston, Texas 77005

713/ 639-7300www.mfah.org

[email protected]

Johnstown

Southern Alleghenies Museum of ArtA Symphony of Color: The LyricalPaintings of Joseph HolstonOn view through March 5, 2006

Pasquerilla Performing ArtsCenter

University of Pittsburg at JohnstownJohnstown, Pennsylvania 15904

814/ 269-7234www.sama-art.org

Lakeland

Polk Museum of ArtDorothy Jenkins and Emily S. MaceyGalleriesCarrie Mae Weems: The LouisianaProjectOn view through February 12, 2006

The Louisiana Projectincorporates stillphotography, sound and video projection as

800 East Palmetto StreetLakeland, Florida 33801-5529


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part of an exploration of culture, gender, andrace. The exhibition features dozens of largescale photographs that evoke the courtly,European image of eighteenth century NewOrleans society but are charged with Weemssignature edge- silhouetted figures in perioddress, masked men and women engaged in

provocative and ambiguous interactions.

Lexington

University of Kentucky Art MuseumSingletary Center for the ArtsAfterburn - Willie Cole: SelectedWorks 1997 2004On view through March 18, 2006




Los Angeles



For the first time in Los Angeles, theCalifornia African American Museum presentsthe selected works of northern Californiaartist and social commentator Milton Bowens.Born and raised in Oakland, this painter,teacher and radio host has been inspired byBasquiat, Bearden, Rauschenberg and Haring.

With a critical eye, vibrant color, collage, andboth hand-written and printed text, the artistreflects upon personal recollections andpivotal moments of African American historyin his search for truth, pride and culturalfreedom.



www.caamuseum.org

California African American Museum 600 State Drive

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should such art reflect African Americanidentity?

Montclair

Montclair Art MuseumAfrican American Artists from theCollectionRobert Lehman Court February4, 2006 - August 6, 2006

This show will be a survey of works byRomare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, LoisMailou Jones, Charles White and other AfricanAmerican artists represented in the collectionof the Montclair Art Museum.

3 South Mountain AvenueMontclair, New Jersey 07042-1747

973/ 746-5555www.montclairartmuseum.org

Montgomery

Montgomery Museum of Fine ArtsJacob Lawrence: Three Series ofPrints- Genesis, Hiroshima, andToussaint LOuvertureOn view through March 19, 2006

The exhibition features 44 framed worksincluding: 31 color prints and 13 text pagesfrom the three Series. Also included are textpanels with an introductory exhibition essay,

a chronology, and photos of the artist. Theexhibition is curated by Peter Nesbett, editorofJacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints(1963-2000) and The Catalogue Raisonn.

Wynton M. Blount Cultural ParkOne Museum Drive

Montgomery, Alabama 36117334/ [email protected]

Nashville

The ParthenonCarlton Wilkinson, Coming Home:A RetrospectiveEast Gallery

On view through February 11, 2006

Nationally acclaimed Nashville photographer,Carlton Wilkinson, exhibits a compilation ofseries created over the past 25 years.

Centennial ParkNashville, Tennessee 37201

615/ 862-8431www.nashville.gov/parthenon/Gallerie

[email protected]

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New York


The story of New York's rootedness in theenslavement of Africans is largely unknown tothe general public. For the last 30 years,scholars here and abroad have recoveredmany fascinating details of the hidden worldsof New York's enslaved people. Among therichest sources for that new scholarship havebeen the library and museum collections ofthe New-York Historical Society. Otherimportant materials reside in the New YorkState Library in Albany, the SchomburgCenter, the Municipal Archives, and the GilderLehrman Collection, now on deposit at N-

YHS.


Frequencywill feature art work by thirty ofthe hottest emerging, black artists of 2005!Living and working in the United States andranging in age from 25 to 42, theirinspirations and influences range from hip hop

videos and folktales, to baseball stars andAbstract Expressionism, to tattoo design andnon-western aesthetics.





Oberlin


What does it mean for a Black artist torepresent him or herself? Portraits of theBlack Experience includes twenty works byAfrican-American artists that quietly infuserepresentations of Black life andconsciousness with individualism and passion.This exhibition, which investigates Blackartists cultural heritage in powerful images,complements a wide range of subjectsaddressed by courses being taught this fall in


440/ 775-8665

www.oberlin.edu/allenart

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the African American StudiesDepartment.

Princeton

Princeton University Art MuseumBetween Image and Concept:Recent Acquisitions in African-American ArtOn view through February 26, 2005

This selection of recently acquired works indifferent media by a broad range of artists,including Henry Ossawa Tanner, CharlesWhite, Kara Walker, and Leonardo Drew,spans the early twentieth century to thepresent

Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1018609/ 258-3788

www.princetonartmuseum.org

March

Andover

Addison Gallery of American ArtPortraits of a People: PicturingAfrican Americans in the

Nineteenth CenturyOn view through March 14, 2006



Andover, Massachusetts 01810-4161

978/ 749-4015www.andover.edu/addison

[email protected]

Asheville

Asheville Art MuseumKickin' It with Joyce J. ScottOn view through March 16, 2006

2 South Pack Square at Pack PlaceAsheville, North Carolina 28802-1717

828/ 253-3227www.ashevilleart.org

[email protected]

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This 30-year retrospective of 60 workscreated since 1970 includes sculpture,jewelry, prints, and textiles as well as videosand photographs of Scott's performance andinstallation work, making for an excellentoverview of her varied and potent artisticcareer. Kickin' It with Joyce J. Scottis a

visually dazzling and intellectually challengingretrospective of the work of an importantAmerican artist.

Atlanta

Clark Atlanta University Art GalleriesTrevor Arnett Hall, 2nd floorFreddie Styles: EvolvingOn view through July 23, 2006

Clark Atlanta University Art GalleriesTrevor Arnett Hall, 2nd floorSelections from the PermanentCollectionOn view through December 2006





Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

Amalia Amaki: Boxes, Buttons andthe Blues

On view through May 13, 2006

Incorporating engaging themes, accessibleimages, common materials and wise humor,Amalia Amakis art disrupts and challengesconventional ideas about culture, race andAmerican history. For more than threedecades, this Atlanta-based artist hasgarnered acclaim for her mixed media quilts,button-encrusted souvenirs and manipulatedphotographs.

350 Spelman Lane, SW

Atlanta, Georgia 30314404/ 270-5607

www.spelman.edu/[email protected]

Baltimore




410/ 396-7100

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paintings, drawings, photographs, and printsby French and European artists who werelikely influences, including Eugne Delacroix,Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant, and CamillePissarro. These works, along with recentTanner acquisitions from the BMA's collection,will also showcase the artist's fascination withreligious subjects, landscapes, andOrientalism.

www.artbma.org

Chapel Hill


The exhibition will feature thirty-six objects,including mixed media sculptures,assemblages, collages and a collaborativeinstallation created by the Saars. Twelve keyworks by each artist, representing the fullchronological range and stylistic evolution oftheir oeuvre, will be arranged according tooverlapping themes that underline the artists'

family ties, multi-racial heritage and strongaffinities to nature and African cultures. Theworks demonstrate a desire to reclaim thevisual representation of African Americanwomen by exploring subjects includingslavery, stereotypes of domestic labor andcontentious historical images of the femalebody.

The University of North CarolinaCampus Box 3400Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-

3400919/ 966-5736

[email protected]

Easton

William Center for the Arts

William Center Art GalleryDavid C. Driskell: Reflections andMemoriesOn view through March 12, 2006

As a leading authority on African AmericanArt, Driskells workpaintings, prints, andcollages will be exhibitedoften reflects hiscomplex experiences dealing with race in this

Lafayette College

Easton, Pennsylvania 18042610/ 330-5361

[email protected]

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country. He is a Distinguished UniversityProfessor Emeritus of Art at University ofMaryland, College Park, and has maintainedan active career as a practicing artist, arthistorian, curator and collector.

Evanston

Dittmar Memorial Art GalleryNorris University Center, 1st floorTerry Dixon: Jazz on CanvasOn view through March 19, 2006

Northwestern University1999 Campus Drive

Evanston, Illinois 60208847/ 491-2348

www.norris.northwestern.edu/nbsm_dittmar.php

[email protected]

Greensboro

University GalleriesH. C. Taylor GalleryJames McMillan: RetrospectiveImages and ImpressionsOn view through March 3, 2006



336/ 334-3209http://www.ncat.edu/

%7emuseum/[email protected]

Hampton


Pulled from the collection of the HamptonUniversity Museum, this exhibition will featureworks on paper and sculpture by world

renowned artist Elizabeth Catlett. Artist,educator, social and political activist theworks represented in this exhibition show theimportance of Catlett as a majorcontemporary international artist.



[email protected]

Hartford

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Drawn from The Amistad Centers collection,this exhibition showcases never seen printsbased on original paintings and drawings byHerbert Gentry (1919-2003). The exhibit willalso highlight works from the G. R. NNamdiGallery and from the personal collection ofGentrys widow, Mary Ann Rose. Gentry isbest known for his figurative abstractions thatwere inspired by the spontaneous rhythmicexpressions of jazz. Faces were a recurrent

theme found in his works, which the artistsaid are intended to symbolize the family ofman.



[email protected]

Hampton


Pulled from the collection of the HamptonUniversity Museum, this exhibition will featureworks on paper and sculpture by worldrenowned artist Elizabeth Catlett. Artist,educator, social and political activist theworks represented in this exhibition show theimportance of Catlett as a majorcontemporary international artist.



[email protected]

Henderson

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Clark County Heritage MuseumRecoverd Views: African-American Portraits, 1912-1925On view through March 10,

2006

Recovered Views features 40black-and-white portraits attributedto John Johnson, an African Americanphotographer who lived and workedin Lincoln, Nebraska in the early partof the 20th century. These portraitsare more than just stunning images;they document life in a vibrant blackcommunity in a small Midwesterncity, a society rarely depicted in anymedium.



um.htm

Houston


Glenn Ligons works examine how the socialand political history of the United States hassubtly yet definitively shaped Americansidentities. Incorporating text from sources asdiverse as James Baldwin and Richard Pryor,

Ligon uses existing language to explore thevalue systems and influence of Americanculture, as well as how broad generalizationsof race, gender, and sexuality pervasivelyaffect personal experience. This surveyexhibition includes his landmark textpaintings, sculpture, prints, installations,videos, and mixed-media work, as well as newwork commissioned for this project.



Johnstown

Southern Alleghenies Museum of ArtA Symphony of Color: The LyricalPaintings of Joseph HolstonOn view through March 5, 2006

Pasquerilla Performing ArtsCenterUniversity of Pittsburg at Johnstown

Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15904814/ 269-7234

www.sama-art.org

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Lexington

University of Kentucky Art MuseumSingletary Center for the ArtsAfterburn - Willie Cole: SelectedWorks 1997 2004On view through March 18, 2006




Los Angeles



For the first time in Los Angeles, theCalifornia African American Museum presentsthe selected works of northern California

artist and social commentator Milton Bowens.Born and raised in Oakland, this painter,teacher and radio host has been inspired byBasquiat, Bearden, Rauschenberg and Haring.With a critical eye, vibrant color, collage, andboth hand-written and printed text, the artistreflects upon personal recollections andpivotal moments of African American historyin his search for truth, pride and culturalfreedom.



www.caamuseum.org

Lubbock

Museum of Texas Tech UniversityPicture Stories: A Celebration ofAfrican American IllustratorsOn view through April 16, 2006

Picture Stories celebrates the talents andcreativity of African American artists whoillustrate childrens picture books. Theexhibition features exciting work by twelveAmerican illustrators of African heritage who

Fourth Street and Indiana AvenueLubbock, Texas 79409-3191

806/ 742-2490www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu

[email protected]

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capture daily life as well as extraordinaryperseverance and talent of Black Americanheroes. History, folktales, and the emergenceof jazz are explored in the color paintings,collage, scratchboard and mixed media piecesfeatured in the exhibition.

Mobile

Mobile Museum of ArtBlack is a Color: African AmericanArt at the Corcoran GalleryOn view through April 2, 2006

In addition to the overriding aesthetic focusof the exhibition, the featured works will beorganized into thematic groups to addressideas that have historically occupied AfricanAmerican artists: racial and cultural heritageand identity, history, religion, and class. Theworks in the exhibition, both representationaland abstract, pose a recurring question thatcuts across the thematic groups: how muchshould such art reflect African Americanidentity?

4850 Museum DriveLangan Park

Mobile, Alabama 36608251/ 208-5200

www.mobilemuseumofart.com

Montclair

Montclair Art MuseumAfrican American Artists from the

CollectionRobert Lehman Court Onview through August 6, 2006




Montclair Art MuseumAnxious Objects: Willie Cole'sFavorite Brands

Judy and Josh Weston GalleryMarch 4, 2006-August 6, 2006

In collaboration with the artist, the Museumhas made a careful selection of approximatelyforty of his most significant sculptures,



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paintings, drawings, and prints to highlightboth his consistency and evolution.AnxiousObjects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands willbe the artist's first survey exhibition to revealthe depth and range of Willie Cole's sensibilityand abilities as an innovative form maker andimagist from the late 1980's to the present.

Cole's works track his distinctive, New Jerseyand Newark-based heritage, movinglymelding the social, political, and culturalperspectives of urban African-Americanexperience.

Montgomery

Montgomery Museum of Fine ArtsJacob Lawrence: Three Series ofPrints- Genesis, Hiroshima, andToussaint LOuvertureOn view through March 19, 2006

The exhibition features 44 framed worksincluding: 31 color prints and 13 text pagesfrom the three Series. Also included are textpanels with an introductory exhibition essay,a chronology, and photos of the artist. Theexhibition is curated by Peter Nesbett, editorofJacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints(1963-2000) and The Catalogue Raisonn.

Wynton M. Blount Cultural ParkOne Museum Drive

Montgomery, Alabama 36117334/ [email protected]

New York

The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNorth mezzanine gallery, Lila AchesonWallace Wing, Modern ArtKara Walker at the MetMarch 21- June 25, 2006

On view is an installation of works bycontemporary American artist Kara Walker,who is best known for her explorations ofissues of race, gender, and sexuality throughthe 18th-century medium of cut-papersilhouettes.


The story of New York's rootedness in theenslavement of Africans is largely unknown to

1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd StreetNew York, New York 10028-0198

212/ 535-7710www.metmuseum.org



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the general public. For the last 30 years,scholars here and abroad have recoveredmany fascinating details of the hidden worldsof New York's enslaved people. Among therichest sources for that new scholarship havebeen the library and museum collections of

the New-York Historical Society. Otherimportant materials reside in the New YorkState Library in Albany, the SchomburgCenter, the Municipal Archives, and the GilderLehrman Collection, now on deposit at N-YHS.


Frequencywill feature art work by thirty ofthe hottest emerging, black artists of 2005!Living and working in the United States andranging in age from 25 to 42, theirinspirations and influences range from hip hopvideos and folktales, to baseball stars andAbstract Expressionism, to tattoo design andnon-western aesthetics.



Oberlin


What does it mean for a Black artist torepresent him or herself? Portraits of theBlack Experience includes twenty works byAfrican-American artists that quietly infuserepresentations of Black life andconsciousness with individualism and passion.This exhibition, which investigates Blackartists cultural heritage in powerful images,complements a wide range of subjectsaddressed by courses being taught this fall in

the African American StudiesDepartment.



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Tulsa

Tulsa Community College, SoutheastCampusRecovered Views: AfricanAmerican Portraits, 1912-1925March 25 April 30, 2006

Recovered Views features 40 black-and-white portraits attributed to John Johnson, anAfrican American photographer who lived andworked in Lincoln, Nebraska in the early partof the 20th century. These portraits are morethan just stunning images; they document lifein a vibrant black community in a smallMidwestern city, a society rarely depicted inany medium.

10300 E. 81st StreetTulsa, Oklahoma 74133

www.tulsacc.edu/page.asp?durki=5

West Palm Beach

Norton Museum of ArtBetye Saar: Extending the FrozenMomentMarch 18 - June 4, 2006

Throughout her career, Betye Saar has madeart that challenges us to think about oursocietal responses to race and to the historyof race in the United States. Though politicallytrenchant, Saars work moves beyond protest

to encompass a profound spirituality and anawareness of the things that link humanbeings across cultural lines and across time.This exhibition examines Saars achievementby focusing on her work with photography,specifically, her incorporation of photographicfragments as a metaphor for her view of theAfrican American experience and of lives toooften obscured in American visual history.

1451 South Olive AvenueWest Palm Beach, Florida 33401

561/ 832-5196www.norton.org

[email protected]

April

Atlanta




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Clark Atlanta University Art GalleriesTrevor Arnett Hall, 2nd floorSelections from the Permanent

CollectionOn view through December 2006


404/ 880-6102

www.cau.edu/artgalleries



Incorporating engaging themes, accessibleimages, common materials and wise humor,

Amalia Amakis art disrupts and challengesconventional ideas about culture, race andAmerican history. For more than threedecades, this Atlanta-based artist hasgarnered acclaim for her mixed media quilts,button-encrusted souvenirs and manipulatedphotographs.



[email protected]

Baltimore


The first African-American artist to achieveinternational acclaim, Henry Ossawa Tannerspent more than half his life in France andwas inspired by a broad range of artisticstyles. Featuring four major paintings byTanner on loan from the Des Moines ArtCenter, this exhibition presents more than 60paintings, drawings, photographs, and printsby French and European artists who werelikely influences, including Eugne Delacroix,Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant, and CamillePissarro. These works, along with recentTanner acquisitions from the BMA's collection,will also showcase the artist's fascination withreligious subjects, landscapes, andOrientalism.



410/ 396-7100www.artbma.org

Detroit

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The Detroit Institute of ArtsAfrican American Art from theWalter O. Evans CollectionApril 9 July 2, 2006

African American Art from the Walter O.

Evans Collection features selected works invarious media from Evans' private collectionof over 500 objects. Broad in scope, theexhibit's more than 80 paintings, sculpturesand works on paper dating from 1848 to 1997show the development of African-Americanart from the Hudson River School up to andincluding various modernist approaches. Theexhibition presents an opportunity to learnabout some of the most accomplished AfricanAmerican artists working in the 19th and 20thcenturies.

5200 Woodward AvenueDetroit, Michigan 48202

313/ 833-7900www.dia.org

Dothan

Wiregrass Museum of ArtJacob Lawrence: Three Series ofPrints- Genesis, Hiroshima, andToussaint LOuverture

April 1 May 31, 2006

The exhibition features 44 framed worksincluding: 31 color prints and 13 text pagesfrom the three Series. Also included are textpanels with an introductory exhibition essay,a chronology, and photos of the artist. Theexhibition is curated by Peter Nesbett, editorofJacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints(1963-2000) and The Catalogue Raisonn.

126 Museum AvenuePost Office Box 1624

Dothan, Alabama 36302334/ 794-3871

[email protected]

Hampton


Pulled from the collection of the HamptonUniversity Museum, this exhibition will feature



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works on paper and sculpture by worldrenowned artist Elizabeth Catlett. Artist,educator, social and political activist theworks represented in this exhibition show theimportance of Catlett as a majorcontemporary international artist.

Hartford






Drawn from The Amistad Centers collection,this exhibition showcases never seen printsbased on original paintings and drawings byHerbert Gentry (1919-2003). The exhibit willalso highlight works from the G. R. NNamdiGallery and from the personal collection ofGentrys widow, Mary Ann Rose. Gentry isbest known for his figurative abstractions thatwere inspired by the spontaneous rhythmicexpressions of jazz. Faces were a recurrenttheme found in his works, which the artistsaid are intended to symbolize the family ofman.


860/ 278-2670

[email protected]

Houston



713/ 284-8250www.camh.org

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Glenn Ligons works examine how the socialand political history of the United States hassubtly yet definitively shaped Americansidentities. Incorporating text from sources asdiverse as James Baldwin and Richard Pryor,Ligon uses existing language to explore thevalue systems and influence of American

culture, as well as how broad generalizationsof race, gender, and sexuality pervasivelyaffect personal experience. This surveyexhibition includes his landmark textpaintings, sculpture, prints, installations,videos, and mixed-media work, as well as newwork commissioned for this project.

[email protected]

Loretto

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Artat Loretto

A Symphony of Color: The LyricalPaintings of Joseph HolstonApril 4 - July 23, 2006

Saint Francis University Mall113 Franciscan Way

Loretto, PA 15940814/ 472-3920

www.sama-art.org

Los Angeles

The Museum of Contemporary Art, LosAngeles (MOCA)Lorna SimpsonApril 16 July 10, 2006

Lorna Simpson first became well known inthe mid-1980s, examining racial and genderidentity with large-scale photograph and textworks that are formally elegant and subtlyprovocative. The artist often focused on theblack female figure, shown either faceless orwith her back turned, to comment on thesocial anonymity of the black female and, atthe same time, make her the central subject.By the mid-90s, Simpson began toconcentrate on creating large multi-panelphotographs printed on felt. More recently,the artist has turned to creating movingimages.

250 Grand AvenueLos Angeles, California 90012

213/ 626-6222www.moca-la.org/museum

Lubbock

Museum of Texas Tech UniversityPicture Stories: A Celebration of

Fourth Street and Indiana AvenueLubbock, Texas 79409-3191

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African American IllustratorsOn view through April 16, 2006

Picture Stories celebrates the talents andcreativity of African American artists whoillustrate childrens picture books. Theexhibition features exciting work by twelveAmerican illustrators of African heritage whocapture daily life as well as extraordinaryperseverance and talent of Black Americanheroes. History, folktales, and the emergenceof jazz are explored in the color paintings,collage, scratchboard and mixed media piecesfeatured in the exhibition.

806/ 742-2490www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu

[email protected]

Mobile

Mobile Museum of Art

Black is a Color: African AmericanArt at the Corcoran GalleryOn view through April 2, 2006

In addition to the overriding aesthetic focusof the exhibition, the featured works will beorganized into thematic groups to addressideas that have historically occupied AfricanAmerican artists: racial and cultural heritageand identity, history, religion, and class. Theworks in the exhibition, both representationaland abstract, pose a recurring question thatcuts across the thematic groups: how muchshould such art reflect African American

identity?

4850 Museum Drive

Langan ParkMobile, Alabama 36608251/ 208-5200

www.mobilemuseumofart.com

Montclair

Montclair Art MuseumAfrican American Artists from theCollectionRobert Lehman Court Onview through August 6, 2006

This show will be a survey of works by

Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, LoisMailou Jones, Charles White and other AfricanAmerican artists represented in the collectionof the Montclair Art Museum.



Montclair Art Museum 3 South Mountain Avenue

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Anxious Objects: Willie Cole'sFavorite Brands

Judy and Josh Weston GalleryOn view through August 6, 2006

In collaboration with the artist, the Museum

has made a careful selection of approximatelyforty of his most significant sculptures,paintings, drawings, and prints to highlightboth his consistency and evolution.AnxiousObjects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands willbe the artist's first survey exhibition to revealthe depth and range of Willie Cole's sensibilityand abilities as an innovative form maker andimagist from the late 1980's to the present.Cole's works track his distinctive, New Jerseyand Newark-based heritage, movinglymelding the social, political, and culturalperspectives of urban African-Americanexperience.

Montclair, New Jersey 07042-1747973/ 746-5555

www.montclairartmuseum.org

New York

The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNorth mezzanine gallery, Lila AchesonWallace Wing, Modern ArtKara Walker at the MetOn view through June 25, 2006

On view is an installation of works bycontemporary American artist Kara Walker,

who is best known for her explorations ofissues of race, gender, and sexuality throughthe 18th-century medium of cut-papersilhouettes.

The Studio Museum in HarlemEnergy/Experimentation: BlackArtists and Abstraction, 1964-1980April 5 July 2, 2006

Energy/Experimentation explores thestrong voice of abstract art-making thatdeveloped during the second half of the 20thcentury. Working in both painting andsculpture this group of artists committedthemselves to innovation in structure andmaterials. Energy/Experimentation willpresent the painting and sculpture of 15artists whose work challenged artistictechnical and social boundaries and

1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd StreetNew York, New York 10028-0198

212/ 535-7710www.metmuseum.org


212/864-4500www.studiomuseum.org

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assumptions during this period.

Oberlin


What does it mean for a Black artist torepresent him or herself? Portraits of theBlack Experience includes twenty works byAfrican-American artists that quietly infuserepresentations of Black life andconsciousness with individualism and passion.This exhibition, which investigates Blackartists cultural heritage in powerful images,complements a wide range of subjects

addressed by courses being taught this fall inthe African American StudiesDepartment.



Pasadena

Pasadena Museum of California ArtFamily Legacies: The Art of Betye,Lezley and Alison SaarApril 30 - September 24, 2006

The exhibition will feature thirty-six objects,

including mixed media sculptures,assemblages, collages and a collaborativeinstallation created by the Saars. Twelve keyworks by each artist, representing the fullchronological range and stylistic evolution oftheir oeuvre, will be arranged according tooverlapping themes that underline the artists'family ties, multi-racial heritage and strongaffinities to nature and African cultures. Theworks demonstrate a desire to reclaim thevisual representation of African Americanwomen by exploring subjects includingslavery, stereotypes of domestic labor andcontentious historical images of the female

body.

490 East Union StreetPasadena, California 91101


Tulsa

Tulsa Community College, SoutheastCampusRecovered Views: African

10300 E. 81st StreetTulsa, Oklahoma 74133

www.tulsacc.edu/page.asp?durki=5

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American Portraits, 1912-1925On View through April 30, 2006

Recovered Views features 40 black-and-white portraits attributed to John Johnson, anAfrican American photographer who lived andworked in Lincoln, Nebraska in the early partof the 20th century. These portraits are morethan just stunning images; they document lifein a vibrant black community in a smallMidwestern city, a society rarely depicted inany medium.

West Palm Beach

Norton Museum of ArtBetye Saar: Extending the FrozenMoment

On view through June 4, 2006

Throughout her career, Betye Saar has madeart that challenges us to think about oursocietal responses to race and to the historyof race in the United States. Though politicallytrenchant, Saars work moves beyond protestto encompass a profound spirituality and anawareness of the things that link humanbeings across cultural lines and across time.This exhibition examines Saars achievementby focusing on her work with photography,specifically, her incorporation of photographicfragments as a metaphor for her view of theAfrican American experience and of lives toooften obscured in American visual history.

1451 South Olive AvenueWest Palm Beach, Florida 33401

561/ 832-5196

[email protected]

Wilmington

Delaware Art MuseumPortraits of a People: PicturingAfrican Americans in theNineteenth CenturyApril 23 - July 16, 2006


2301 Kentmere ParkwayWilmington, Delaware 19806

302/ 571-9590www.delart.org

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May

Atlanta


Clark Atlanta University Art GalleriesTrevor Arnett Hall, 2nd floorSelections from the PermanentCollectionOn view through December 2006







Incorporating engaging themes, accessibleimages, common materials and wise humor,Amalia Amakis art disrupts and challenges

conventional ideas about culture, race andAmerican history. For more than threedecades, this Atlanta-based artist hasgarnered acclaim for her mixed media quilts,button-encrusted souvenirs and manipulatedphotographs.



[email protected]

Baltimore




and 31

st

StreetsBaltimore, Maryland 21218-3898410/ 396-7100

www.artbma.org

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paintings, drawings, photographs, and printsby French and European artists who werelikely influences, including Eugne Delacroix,Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant, and CamillePissarro. These works, along with recentTanner acquisitions from the BMA's collection,will also showcase the artist's fascination with

religious subjects, landscapes, andOrientalism.

Belton

Bell County MuseumRecovered Views: AfricanAmerican Portraits, 1912-1925May 15 August 16, 2006

Recovered Views features 40 black-and-

white portraits attributed to John Johnson, anAfrican American photographer who lived andworked in Lincoln, Nebraska in the early partof the 20th century. These portraits are morethan just stunning images; they document lifein a vibrant black community in a smallMidwestern city, a society rarely depicted inany medium.

201 N. MainBelton, Texas 76513

254/ 933-5243www.bellcountytx.com/museum

[email protected]

Detroit

The Detroit Institute of Arts

African American Art from theWalter O. Evans CollectionOn view through July 2, 2006

African American Art from the Walter O.Evans Collection features selected works invarious media from Evans' private collectionof over 500 objects. Broad in scope, theexhibit's more than 80 paintings, sculpturesand works on paper dating from 1848 to 1997show the development of African-Americanart from the Hudson River School up to andincluding various modernist approaches. Theexhibition presents an opportunity to learn

about some of the most accomplished AfricanAmerican artists working in the 19th and 20thcenturies.

5200 Woodward Avenue

Detroit, Michigan 48202313/ 833-7900www.dia.org

Dothan

Wiregrass Museum of ArtJacob Lawrence: Three Series of

126 Museum AvenuePost Office Box 1624

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Prints- Genesis, Hiroshima, andToussaint LOuvertureOn view through May 31, 2006

The exhibition features 44 framed worksincluding: 31 color prints and 13 text pages

from the three Series. Also included are textpanels with an introductory exhibition essay,a chronology, and photos of the artist. Theexhibition is curated by Peter Nesbett, editorofJacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints(1963-2000) and The Catalogue Raisonn.

Dothan, Alabama 36302334/ 794-3871

[email protected]

Hampton


Pulled from the collection of the HamptonUniversity Museum, this exhibition will featureworks on paper and sculpture by worldrenowned artist Elizabeth Catlett. Artist,

educator, social and political activist theworks represented in this exhibition show theimportance of Catlett as a majorcontemporary international artist.



[email protected]

Hartford


The exhibition while providing a generaloverview of the development of photography,will present very fine examples from ourcollection of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes,tintypes, albumen, and gelatin prints; and theprovocative photographs and art forms ofcontemporary photographers. Varying themesencompassing the photographic processes,the history of races and racism in America,



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and contemporary explorations inphotography of identity and history will alsobe discussed through related programs.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Moved by Music: Herbert GentryOn view through October 29, 2006

Drawn from The Amistad Centers collection,this exhibition showcases never seen printsbased on original paintings and drawings byHerbert Gentry (1919-2003). The exhibit willalso highlight works from the G. R. NNamdiGallery and from the personal collection ofGentrys widow, Mary Ann Rose. Gentry isbest known for his figurative abstractions thatwere inspired by the spontaneous rhythmicexpressions of jazz. Faces were a recurrenttheme found in his works, which the artist

said are intended to symbolize the family ofman.

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Loretto

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Artat LorettoA Symphony of Color: The LyricalPaintings of Joseph HolstonOn view through July 23, 2006

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Loretto, PA 15940814/ 472-3920

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Los Angeles

The Museum of Contemporary Art, LosAngeles (MOCA)Lorna SimpsonOn view through July 10, 2006

Lorna Simpson first became well known inthe mid-1980s, examining racial and genderidentity with large-scale photograph and text

works that are formally elegant and subtlyprovocative. The artist often focused on theblack female figure, shown either faceless orwith her back turned, to comment on thesocial anonymity of the black female and, atthe same time, make her the central subject.By the mid-90s, Simpson began toconcentrate on creating large multi-panelphotographs printed on felt. More recently,the artist has turned to creating movingimages.

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Montclair

Montclair Art MuseumAfrican American Artists from theCollectionRobert Lehman Court Onview through August 6, 2006




Montclair Art MuseumAnxious Objects: Willie Cole'sFavorite Brands

Judy and Josh Weston GalleryOn view through August 6, 2006

In collaboration with the artist, the Museumhas made a careful selection of approximatelyforty of his most significant sculptures,paintings, drawings, and prints to highlightboth his consistency and evolution.AnxiousObjects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands will

be the artist's first survey exhibition to revealthe depth and range of Willie Cole's sensibilityand abilities as an innovative form maker andimagist from the late 1980's to the present.Cole's works track his distinctive, New Jerseyand Newark-based heritage, movinglymelding the social, political, and culturalperspectives of urban African-Americanexperience.



Neenah

Bergstrom-Mahler MuseumPicture Stories: A Celebration ofAfrican American IllustratorsMay 7 July 2, 2006

Picture Stories celebrates the talents andcreativity of African American artists whoillustrate childrens picture books. Theexhibition features exciting work by twelve

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American illustrators of African heritage whocapture daily life as well as extraordinaryperseverance and talent of Black Americanheroes. History, folktales, and the emergenceof jazz are explored in the color paintings,collage, scratchboard and mixed media piecesfeatured in the exhibition.

New York

The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNorth mezzanine gallery, Lila AchesonWallace Wing, Modern ArtKara Walker at the MetOn view through June 25, 2006

On view is an installation of works bycontemporary American artist Kara Walker,who is best known for her explorations ofissues of race, gender, and sexuality throughthe 18th-c

Documents

Guide to Black Art Exhibitions 2006