October 4 & 5, 2013
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
This two-day symposium examines the role of Africa and its diaspora in the development of art of the United States, from nineteenth-century portraiture to American modernism; from the Harlem Renaissance to the contemporary art world.
The embedded video features welcoming remarks by Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Johnetta Cole, Director, National Museum of African Art.