To support a three-year programming and publication project to establish an institutional archive documenting the first 25 years of the David C. Driskell Center’s history and legacy as the leading institution for the study and presentation of African American arts. The archive will also make accessible the papers of arts administrator Terrie S. Rouse-Rosario.
To support a three-day workshop in New Orleans for emerging art writers addressing arts writing and reporting while focusing on Caribbean diasporic perspectives. The program offers participants the possibility to publish texts in Contemporary And (C&) and engages with questions linked to local contexts. The workshop is followed by a six-month mentoring program connecting mentee participants with local and international art writers with the aim of expanding their professional networks.
To support “Water Holds Memory,” a four-day convening exploring the reception of the works of Calida Rawles and Torkwase Dyson by non-US Black diasporic artists and thinkers in relation to their views of Blackness as well as how such reinterpretations might circulate back into the field of American art in the US. The convening includes artists and scholars from Europe, North America, South America, and the Caribbean.
To support Elizabeth Catlett: A Revolutionary Black Artist and All that It Implies (working title), co-organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The exhibition explores the contributions of Elizabeth Catlett through rarely seen early paintings, drawings, and ephemera, demonstrating her engagement with multiple artistic and political movements over the course of the twentieth century.
To support Martin Puryear: Fifty Years, co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in collaboration with Martin Puryear. The exhibition offers a new perspective on the artist’s multi-decade career, featuring a body of work that includes abstract sculptures, prints, and drawings and that is notable for its formal elegance and the range of global aesthetic histories on which it draws.
To support the first mid-career survey of American artist Christine Sun Kim, co-organized by Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Kim is a visual and sound artist, performer, and activist who identifies as Deaf and Korean American, and the exhibition examines Kim’s practice centered around sound, its visual representation, and how it is valued in society. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive publication, available in audio and braille editions.
To support the first monographic exhibition of the work of Hayward Oubre. The exhibition reveals how Oubre shaped the art of Alabama as artist and teacher and how his art both complicates and expands existing histories of American art. The exhibition and catalogue explore the importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ art departments in building arts communities within and beyond the South.
To support Woven in Wool: The Rebirth of Traditional Coast Salish Regalia, a first-of-its-kind exhibition that embraces the power of wool regalia in all forms. The six-month exhibition features traditional wool regalia—an art form threatened with extinction until the late twentieth century—common among the nineteenth-century Coast Salish peoples in the Pacific Northwest.
Opening at MASS MoCA and traveling to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… is the first-ever museum retrospective of the work of Houston- and Los Angeles–based artist Vincent Valdez. The exhibition surveys over two decades of Valdez’s work, spanning from early career drawings to current political pieces.
Andrea Morales: Roll Down Like Water—Photography and Movement Journalism in the American South is a solo exhibition of the Memphis-based Peruvian American documentary photographer Andrea Morales (b.1984), the artist’s first major touring exhibition and catalogue.
STREET NIHONGA: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani explores the art of painter and collagist Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani (1920–2012).
Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial explores contemporary perspectives on the theme of home throughout the United States, its territories, and tribal nations. It features 25 site-related commissions in which artists, architects, and designers transform the museum’s historic Carnegie Mansion into a canvas for creative expression. Each work is historically constructed and grounded in specific social, political, and economic contexts.
