Ongoing Events
Activity
African-American Quilts from the Cargo Collection
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Time:
All Day
Location:
International Quilt Study Center & Museum
African-American quilts are a critical segment of quilt history. They reflect the diverse traditions that merge to form our American quilt heritage. African-American quilts come in every imaginable style: traditional patterns and original patterns, …
Art Exhibition
Black Fire: A Constant State of Revolution
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Time:
All Day
Location:
Sheldon Museum of Art
Jazz pianist Andrew Hill’s 1964 recording Black Fire and this exhibition share basic precepts: moments of transition. Drawn primarily from the Sheldon collection, a small group of large-scale works present narrative threads of African American …
Art Exhibition
Emory Douglas: Power to the People, the Struggle Continues
Date:
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Time:
All Day
Location:
Sheldon Museum of Art
As revolutionary artist and minister of culture for the Black Panther Party, Emory Douglas illustrated and designed the group’s newspaper. His poignant visuals document the party’s use of art to inspire self-determination and impel social change …
Art Exhibition
Gordon Parks: Segregation Story
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Time:
All Day
Location:
Sheldon Museum of Art
This exhibition comprises images from Gordon Parks’s photo essay “The Restraints: Open and Hidden,” commissioned by Life magazine in 1956. In this work, Parks chronicled the everyday lives of a multigenerational black family living in the Jim …
Art Exhibition
James VanDerZee
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Time:
All Day
Location:
Sheldon Museum of Art
Having opened his first studio in 1917, James VanDerZee documented Harlem’s artistic and cultural renaissance, photographing landmarks, parades, funerals, social clubs, political and religious organizations, affluent families, and celebrities.