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Selected Updates: the Guide toBlack Art Exhibitions in 2009
Black Art ProjectGeorge-McKinley Martin
P. O. Box 8515Silver Spring, Maryland 20907
Atlanta
High Museum of ArtEvolution: Five Decades ofPrintmaking by David C. Driskell
April 21 August 2, 2009
This exhibition is organized by the DriskellCenter and highlights for the first time theprints of the renowned DistinguishedUniversity of Maryland Professor of Art,Emeritus, David C. Driskell, an artist, arthistorian, collector, curator, and educator andone of the most recognized and respectednames in the world of African American art andculture.
A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.Atlanta, Georgia 30309
404/ 733-4400; 404/ 733-HIGH
www.high.org/[email protected]
Baltimore
Galerie Myrtis
Parallel EvolutionApril 3 May 3, 2009
Parallel Evolution is a retrospective of NewYork based sculptor, M. Scott Johnson, whichchronicles his artistic vision from 2000-2008;
using sculptor as a metaphor for his eight yearjourney ion becoming one of the leading directatone carvers of his generation.
2224 North Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland 21218
410/ 235-3711
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photographs side by side with photo-basedworks by contemporary African Americanartists. While early photographers pushed theboundaries of the medium to represent a Blackworld of hope and dignity, contemporaryartists celebrate and extend that legacy,
engaging in a dialogue about the nature of
memory and photographic representation inrelation to personal history.
G. R. NNamdi GalleryRichard Hunt: Legendary SculptorMay 1 June 30, 2009
110 North Peoria Street
Chicago, Illinois 60607312/ 563-9240
Evanston
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of ArtMain Gallery
Bare Witness: Photographs byGordon ParksApril 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. Parksserved 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.
Northwestern UniversityMary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle DriveEvanston, Illinois 60208-2410
847/ 491-4000www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu
Gordon Parks,American Gothic, 1942, gelatin silverprint, The Capitol Group Foundation
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Jackson
The Mississippi Museum of Art
Public CorridorAmerican Masters of the MississippiGulf Coast: George Ohr, Dusti Bong,
Walter Anderson,Richmond BarthApril 11 July 12, 2009
American Masters of the Mississippi
Gulf Coastseeks to illuminate theintersection of these important artists livesand work and to further examine the history ofthe abundantly creative region of theMississippi Gulf Coast. This traveling exhibitionis organized by the Mississippi Arts
Commission and is underwritten by theNational Endowment for the Arts. It is thesecond in a series highlighting the cultural
contributions of historic Mississippi personas inart, music, literature, theater, and dance.This entry is to highlight the work ofRichmond Barth.
A publication on the artists and artworks inthe exhibition is available.
380 South Lamar StreetJackson, Mississippi 39201
601/ 960-1515www.msmuseumart.org
New York
June Kelly Gallery
Elizabeth Catlett: Recent SculptureApril 3 May 2, 2009
591 Broadway
New York, New York 10012212/ 226-1660
www.junekellygallery.com
June Kelly Gallery
James Little: Recent PaintingsMay 8 June 9, 2009
591 Broadway
New York, New York 10012212/ 226-1660
www.junekellygallery.com
Newark
University of Delaware
Mechanical Hall GalleryHome of the Paul R. Jones Collection of
African American Art
Jacob Lawrence in Print
University Museums
Mechanical Hall (MEH)near the intersection of East Main Street
and North College Avenue
Newark, Delaware
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On view through May 10, 2009
The exhibition, courtesy of DC MooreGallery in New York, offers a
comprehensive survey of Jacob
Lawrence's graphic work, including the
narrative series, The Legend of JohnBrown and fifteen prints based on The
Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture series.
302-831-8037http://www.udel.edu/museums/
Jacob Lawrence
The Builders, 1974.Silkscreen, 30 x 22 1/8 in. 2008 The Jacob and Gwendolyn LawrenceFoundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS),New York, Courtesy DC Moore Gallery, NY
Oakland
Joyce Gordon Gallery
Main GalleryIntersectionality of SistersMarch 6 Apri l 1, 2009
This exhibit is an all-women group show.
406 14th Street
Oakland, California 94612510/ 465-8928
www.joycegordongallery.com
San Francisco
Museum of the African DiasporaLet Your Motto Be Resistance: African
American PortraitsMarch 21 June 14, 2009
As the first national traveling exhibition jointlydeveloped by the SmithsoniansNational Museum of African American Historyand Culture and the National PortraitGallery, it explores photographys role inshaping public identity and individualconcepts of race and socioeconomic status
685 Mission Street (at Third)San Francisco, California 94105
415/ 358-7200http://www.moadsf.org/
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over the past 150 years. The exhibitionconsists of 70 modern prints selected from theNational Portrait Gallerys collectionshighlighting 150 years of African Americanresistance in the U.S.
The exhibitions title was inspired by the cry of
a Maryland slave, Henry HighlandGarnet (1815 1882), who escaped north,became an abolitionist and spoke the phrasethat gives the show its title: Strike for yourlives and liberties. Rather die freemen thanlive to be slaves. Let your motto be resistance.Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed peoplehave ever secured their liberty withoutresistance!
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
YBCA GalleriesNick Cave: Meet Me at the Center ofthe EarthMarch 28 - July 5, 2009
Meet Me at the Center of the Earthfeatures Caves shimmering soundsuitsculptures. The soundsuits seem poised toexplode into dance and ritual while exploringissues of ceremony, identity and myth. Themany layers of meaning woven into thephysically beautiful soundsuits intrigue,overwhelm, challenge and seduce the
audience. This exhibition represents thelargest scale presentation of Caves career.
As many as thirty soundsuits surround thesphere on mannequins creating a spaceevocative of sacred and ritual space.
A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.
701 Mission Street @ 3rd
San Francisco, California 94103-3138415/ 978-2700
http://www.ybca.org/exhibitions/
Swarthmore
The List GallerySonya Clark: Combs, Pieces, and PartsMarch 5 April 4, 2009
Sonya Clark listens to the stories held inobjects and, lately, unbreakable, fine-toothed,pocket combs have her ear. Each turn in plot,brings questions and an urge to respond with apiece. As cultural critic, Bill Gaskins said in a
The List GalleryDepartment of Art
Swarthmore College500 College Avenue
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081610/ 328-8488
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/art/Gallery/index.html
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review of her work, Hairdressing is theprimordial fiber art. And so it is that the reedon a loom and the pocket comb are siblings.Clark uses combs the way a weavermanipulates threads in a tapestry: multiplicityin service of the whole. There is a resonance
between an artwork made of combs, a hairstyle
piled high, and a woven cloth.
Syracuse
Community Folk Art Center
Three Sisters: The Art of RobinHolder, Sonya Lawyer, TamaraMaddenOn view through May 2, 2009
Syracuse State University805 East Genesee Street
Syracuse, New York 13210315/ 442-2230
www.communityfolkartcenter.org
Robin Holder
Washington, DC
International Visions-The GalleryDancing with ColorApril1 May 2, 1009
This is an exhibition of new works by KevinCole and Frank Smith.
2629 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008202/ 234-5112
Long View Gallery
Love is a Losing Game by Billy ColbertMarch 27 April 24, 2009
Billy Colberts most notable solo exhibitionshave been museum shows at the AfricanAmerican Museum in Dallas, Texas and theDelaware Center for Contemporary Art in
1320 9th Street, NWWashington, DC 20001
202/ 232-4788
www. [email protected]
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Wilmington, Delaware. Colberts publiccollectors include the African AmericanMuseum in Dallas, Texas, The NationalAcademy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., TheWashington Convention Center, Washington,D.C., Philander Smith College, Little Rock,
Arkansas and St. Marys College of Maryland.
Billy Colbert
Millennium Arts Salon
Between East and WestMarch 28 May 30, 2009
Bearing the name of its 2008-2009 theme,Between East and West, Millennium Arts
Salon presents a group exhibition featuringartists living and/or working in the US andabroad. The artists include Rachelle Puryear,Billy Colbert, Bill Dallas, Ann Bouie, BryanMcFarlane, Sheila Crider, Alonzo Davis, PaulSo, and Barbara Blanco.
1213 Girard Street, NWWashington, DC 20009
www.millenniumartssalon.org
Rachelle Puryear
Billy Colbert
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Parish Gallery - GeorgetownRobin HolderApril 17 May 12, 2009
1054 31st Street, NWCanal Square
Washington, DC 20007202/ 944-2310
http://www.parishgallery.com/[email protected]
Robin Holder
Wilberforce
The National Afro-American Museum and
Cultural CenterSoul! Art from the National Afro-American MuseumMay 1, 2009 February 28, 2010
What is it like to be Black in America? Artistsfrom the last two centuries tell of the African-
American experience through their creativeexpressions in Soul! Art from the National
Afro-American Museum and CulturalCenter. This featured exhibit will showcasepaintings, sculpture, prints and textiles fromthe extensive art collections of the OhioHistorical Society's National Afro-AmericanMuseum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce,Ohio.
The National Afro-American Museum and
Cultural CenterP.O. Box 578
1350 Brush Row Road
Wilberforce, Ohio 45384937/ 376-4944
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Wilmington
Delaware Art Museum
Ancestry and Innovation: AfricanAmerican Art from the American
Folk Art Museum
May 2 July 12, 2009
This exhibition features textiles, paintings,works on paper, and sculpture bycontemporary African American artists. Fromvibrant quilts and weathervanes toprovocative assemblages and paintings, thiswide-ranging exhibition explores the artisticexpressions of self-taught African Americanartists from the rural South and the urbanNorth.
Ancestry and Innovation includes works of artby an elder generation of creators, such asDavid Butler, Sam Doyle, Bessie Harvey, andClementine Hunter; by contemporary masterssuch as Thornton Dial, Sr. and Thornton Dial,
Jr.; and by emerging artists such as KevinSampson and Willie LeRoy Elliot. Theongoing contribution of black artists to thekaleidoscope of American cultural and visualexperience is the core of the exhibition.
2301 Kentmere Parkway
Wilmington, Delaware 19806866/ 232-3714; 302/ 571-9590
www.delart.org/
Playing Cards, c. 1970Clementine Hunter
Oil on board, 18" x 24"
OTHER NEWS of INTERESTSmithsonian National Museum of African American
History and Culture
View the design concepts, photographs, and architectural modelspresentedby the six Design Competition finalists for the Smithsonian National Museum
of African American History and Culture. The exhibition opens at 2 pm onFriday, March 27; exhibition hours are 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM from Saturday,
March 28 to Friday, April 3, 2009.
Smithsonian Institution Building (the Castle) .
Shermer Hall1000 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington, DC
Metro: Smithsonian or L'Enfant Plaza stations
To read the full press release about design exhibit>>
For information about the design competition>>
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20th ANNUAL JAMES A. PORTER COLLOQUIUM ON AFRICAN
AMERICAN ART
Honoring: Sharon Patton and Judith Wilson
Featuring:Salah Hassan, Cheryl Finley and Emma Amos
Where: Armour J. Blackburn Center, Howard University, Washington, DC
Dates:April 16 18, 2009
According to the Porter Colloquium Web site, this years theme,
Trajectories provides a frame by which art historians, artists, critics,curators, collectors and interdisciplinary scholars, privilege topics, concepts,
and issues that further tease out the complexities, the multiple levels ofmeaning, the subtleties, the contradictions in recent artistic production andart scholarship.
For details regarding the program, presenters, honorees, registration, andsupport, follow the link: http://portercolloquium.org/colloquium/2009/
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Hammonds House Museum Art Auction Benefit
Hammonds House Museum's 8th Silent and Live Auction Benefit will beheld on Sunday, April 19, 2009 at Mason Murer Fine Art Galleriesfrom 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM. This fundraiser showcases local and national
artists, builds audience awareness about the intrinsic value of the visualarts, and has an end product of securing revenue to fund HammondsHouse Museum's educational programs.
For further details, follow this link:
http://www.hammondshouse.org/matsterful-mix-art-auction-200.html
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Soul Sanctuary: Images of the African American Worship
Experience
Visit the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museumfor adiscussion and book signing on Saturday, May 16, 2009 from 11:00 AM
to 1:00 PM with photographer and author, Jason Miccolo Johnson.
1901 Fort Place, SEWashington, DC 20020
202/ 633-4875www.anacostia.si.edu
The Black Art Project welcomes any information that you might have relating toBlack art exhibitions, particularly regional exhibitions that are not traditionally
marketed on a national scale. The Project will verify the accuracy of any informationsubmitted, so we welcome all leads. Thank you for any assistance that you provide.
Black Art ProjectGeorge-McKinley MartinP. O. Box 8515Silver Spring, Maryland [email protected]
[email protected] 2009
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