To support the retrospective exhibition Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams at the University of Illinois’s Krannert Art Museum (KAM). The exhibition’s thematic sections emphasize Wilson’s consistent appropriation of museum display practices and institutional authority, her art-historical references to Dada and Surrealism, her sharp attention to gendered portrayals of sexual deviance in early twentieth-century psychoanalysis and sexology, and her longstanding interest in bodies as unruly and contested sites, all foregrounding her playful use of language and materials. A scholarly catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

To support Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape Painting at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. The project presents and examines the history of the land known as the United States and as Turtle Island from an Indigenous perspective through Indigenous items of artistic and historical value that express the land; 19th-century landscape paintings by Thomas Cole, which include depictions of Native figures; and contemporary artworks by the Indigenous artists Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk), Alan Michelson (Grand River Mohawk), and Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa). A full-color publication accompanies the exhibition.

To support the traveling exhibition O’POWA O’MENG The Art and Legacy of Jody Folwell at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. This tightly focused career retrospective presents 35 iconic works that demonstrate the arc of Folwell’s groundbreaking artistic output. A scholarly catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

To support The Harlem Renaissance and Trans-Atlantic Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This project foregrounds the work of Black artists throughout the United States to demonstrate the diverse influences and approaches to portraying Black subjects that came to characterize the “New Negro” movement in the 1920s through the 1940s. Not only does this project examine the work of US-based artists, it also presents works by Black expatriates working in Europe and shows their oeuvre alongside portrayals of the international African diaspora by their European and Caribbean peers. A scholarly exhibition catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

To support the exhibition Sargent Claude Johnson at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. This is the first exhibition in over a quarter century to probe the career of Sargent Johnson (1888–1967), a leading figure of the New Negro Renaissance and one of the first Black artists on the West Coast to gain national acclaim. A scholarly catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

To support the summative career retrospective Joyce J. Scott at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The retrospective reveals the full breadth of Scott’s utterly unique vision, from her woven tapestries and soft sculpture of the 1970s, her audacious performances and wearables of the 1980s, her ascendancy through the 1990s, and her present status as a sculptor of notable social force and formal ingenuity. A scholarly catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

To support the exhibition A Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, D.C., 1900–2000 at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum. The project illuminates the long and rich tradition of African American artist-educators in the nation’s capital who—despite an underfunded, overcrowded, and segregated school system—inspired generations of young people to be interested in the arts. A free exhibition guide accompanies the exhibition in print and online format.

To support the interdisciplinary exhibition  Sightlines: An Emerging Map of Asian Americans in Washington, D.C. at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center. Using photographs, ephemera, moving images, architectural drawings, and sketchbooks, as well as material culture from the Smithsonian and private collections, Sightlines brings into view coordinates (and the people associated with them) that reveal how DC can be mapped from Asian American vantage points. An online portal, where visitors can access exhibition content and expanded information accompanies the exhibition.