Virginia Museum of Fine Art
$25,000
Richmond, VA
2023

To support the symposium Picturing the Black Racial Imaginary in January 2024 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (VMFA). The symposium will bring together leading scholars, writers, artists, and community activists for presentations and discussions designed to elucidate ideas in the exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy, curated by VMFA’s Valerie Cassel Oliver. Panelists and speakers plan to explore concepts related to the Black experience in America and their effect on shaping the racial imaginary in art and cultural theory. 

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