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Image: Beverly Buchanan, slab works, c. 1978–1980. Cast concrete sculptures with acrylic paint. Dimensions unknown. Courtesy the Frances Mulhall Achiles Library, Artist File, Whitney Museum of American Art.
Jessica Winters, born in Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador, in 1996, Lichen (Hopedale 1), 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 91,5 x 91,5 cm, MMFA, purchase, the Paradis family fund in memory of Claude Paradis, Photo MMFA.
Woven in Wool curatorial team. Seated, left to right: Chepximiya Siyam’ Chief Janice George, Tillie Jones, Buddy Joseph. Standing, left to right: Siseenaxalt Gail White Eagle, Bethany Palkovitz, Katie Bunn-Marcuse, Kelly Robinson, sa’hLa mitSa Susan Pavel, Bridget Johnson, Olive Keilholtz, Michelle Cohen, Roxanne Hockett, Rose Mathison, Ashley Verplank McClelland. Salish blanket of mountain-goat wool in foreground. Burke Museum, Nov. 3, 2023. Photo Credit Burke Museum/Timothy Kenney.
Jacob Lawrence, General Toussaint L’Ouverture, Statesman and military genius, esteemed by Spanish, featured by the English, dreaded by the French, hated by the planters, and revered by the Blacks, The Life of Toussaint L’Ouevture: # 20 : © 2023 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Big Soldier family (Iowa Tribe) reunited with their grandfather’s breechcloth at First Americans Museum, 2023 [NMAI 027462.000]. Photo by James Pepper Henry.
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Musées partagés octobre 2022. Photo Anne Volery © Palais de la Porte Dorée
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Letitia Quesenberry, from the series little darlings, 2014–ongoing, panel, lacquer, photo, wax, resin, 6 x 5 x .25 in each, photo courtesy of the artist
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Ger Xiong, Becoming White, 2021; fabric, thread, and copper; 71 x 61 x 2 in. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Bill Moree. Photo courtesy of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
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Detail views of paintings by (left to right): Hisako Hibi, Study for a Self-Portrait, Topaz, Utah, ca. 1944. Japanese American National Museum; Miki Hayakawa, Untitled, ca. 1930s. Collection of Richard Sakai; and Miné Okubo, Portrait Study, ca. 1937. Trustees of the Miné Okubo Art Collection at the Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties, Riverside Community College District, California.
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A group photo of (front L-R) Councilman Fred Samuel, Mayor Edward I. Koch, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, C. Elaine Parker, Terrance Moan, (rear L-R) Charles A. Shorter, Jr., Commissioner Bess Myerson, Fred Price, circa 1979, courtesy of The Studio Museum in Harlem
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Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago Types Project, featured work by calligrapher and artist Tubs, photo courtesy of Design Museum of Chicago, 2022.
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