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Dalila Scruggs joins the Washington, D.C.-based Smithsonian American Art Museum as its first Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art.
The DIA's Center for African American Art, established in 2000, organized the reinstallation. This marks the first phase of a larger renovation of the museum's second-floor North Wing.
Spanning more than 150 years of art, Dr. Walter and Linda Evan's collection includes 30 historical and contemporary paintings, prints, drawings, photographs and sculptures created by leading ...
Robert Steele and wife Jean at their Honolulu residence Monday with some of their collected work by African American artists. Steele also served for 10 years as director of UMD’s David C ...
In the fall of 1962, the African American artist Jacob Lawrence made a 10-day visit to the then newly independent West African nation of Nigeria. The American Society of African Culture in Lagos ...
3. Harlem Renaissance Glam Party Transport guests back to the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s when African American art, music, literature and fashion flourished.
Malika N. Pryor gives a tour in preparation for the opening of the International African American Museum on Friday, June 23, 2023, in Charleston, S.C. Overlooking the old wharf at which nearly ...