A D.C. artist’s glowing monuments to Black lives
Tsedaye Makonnen’s ethereal pillars at the African Art Museum pay tribute to victims of violence and the perils of migration.
6 Bay Area cultural institutions for diving deeper into African American art and history
From the Museum of the African Diaspora to two museums dedicated to the Black Panther Party, here are five institutions where ...
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Chatham Community Library Hosts Free African American Musicians of North Carolina Exhibit Celebrating Legendary Local Artists
Chatham Community Library presents the "African American Musicians of North Carolina" exhibit, free to the public.
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‘Project a Black Planet’ is a history-making survey of Pan-African art
The massive Art Institute of Chicago exhibition, co-presented with museums in Barcelona and Brussels, will head to Europe ...
Dallas Mavericks open art contest for Black History Month with trip to Washington D.C. for students
The top five Grand Prize winners will receive an all-expenses paid trip to Washington D.C., but the prizes don't stop there.
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CCH Pounder talks about sharing her art collection and the importance of preserving Black art
Actress and art collector CCH Pounder is sharing more than 40 pieces of her collection in an exhibit at the African American ...
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Sculptor who was the first Black woman to receive a national art commission was 'a voice of her time'
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was a protege of Auguste Rodin and shaped the Harlem Renaissance. The African American Museum in ...
PAFA has collected 595 works by Black artists in the last decade. Is it enough?
More Perfect Union Newsletter Please enter a valid email address. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter! The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the nation’s first art museum and school.
After 138 years, Black American composer Edmond Dédé gets his flowers
Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained ...
Chicago artist Simone Leigh’s Sharifa earns a place of honor at Art Institute
Among the other sculptures in the museum's North Garden, it is the only one by a living artist, and the only one by a Chicago ...
Ahead of MLK Day, achievements of Black Cincinnatians honored at Museum Center
Black Empowerment Day continues the legacy of the African Culture Fest, as the Center prepares to honor the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Look closely and you can read the history in the textiles this quilt researcher has found at the Mingei
Olivia Joseph can spot the stories in the stitches in their work as a quilt research fellow for the Mingei International ...