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Guide to Black ArtExhibitions in 2008

Introduction

TheGuide to Black Art Exhibitionsin 2008is a comprehensiveselection of art exhibitions in the United States of America. This Guidehas a twofold purpose. One is to serve as a travel guide directing you toart exhibitions in the U.S.A. If you visit a city listed, take an excursion tothe featured venue(s) in that city and enjoy the exhibition(s). If youdiscover an exhibition that is not included or find errors in this Guide,please send an e-mail to [email protected]. It isrecommended that you telephone, e-mail, or visit the venues web sitein advance to confirm that the exhibition will be on view when you planto visit. Its second major purpose is to provide documentation, in onesource, of the exhibition history of African American art exhibitions inmuseums, large commercial galleries, and cultural centers across thecountry. This documentation does not exist comprehensively in anyother source.

The Guide is currently produced by George-McKinley Martin ofBlack ArtProject. We hope that the Guide will encourage more people to visit andenjoy exhibitions of African American art. It is hoped that strong supportof these exhibitions will encourage more museums to mount exhibitionsof the works of African American artists either as a theme or included inother major subject/theme related exhibitions.

How to Use This Guide

The Guideis arranged by month.

All entries are in alphabetical order by city.

Each time an exhibition appears in the Guide, it is given a fullentry. The first line of a full entry (left column) includes the

museum/gallery site, followed by the name of the exhibition inbold print, the inclusive dates of the exhibition, a brief descriptionof the exhibition. The right column includes additional information-- address, telephone number, web site and/or e-mail addresseswhen they exist-- to help make your contact or visit easier.

When an exhibition continues to subsequent months, there is a fullentry under each of those months and it includes the

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museum/gallery site, the title of the exhibition, its ending date,and a brief description, as well as the appropriate contactinformation.

January

Atlanta

Hammonds House Galleries andResource Center for African AmericanArtThe Paintings of Sedrick Huckaby

January 27 April 6, 2008

The African-American family and its heritagehas been the content of his painterly world forthe last few years. Through portraiture he has

been depicting the African-American familyand has chosen to paint quilts as an elementof our heritage. In large-scale portraits offamily and friends, Huckaby tries toaggrandize ordinary people by painting themon a monumental scale. Although he has usedvarious references while painting, Huckaby ismost enthusiastic about painting from a livesitter. Huckaby hopes these paintings not onlycelebrate the sitter's beautiful facial featuresbut also sends the message that ordinarypeople, who may not be great in society'seyes, should be of paramount importance tous.

503 Pepples Street, S.W.Atlanta, Georgia 30310

404/ [email protected]

Spelman College Museum of Fine ArtCinema Remixed and Reloaded:Black Women Artists and theMoving Image Since 1970, Part II

January 24 May 24, 2008

Video art emerged in the later half of the20th century and has rapidly moved from therealm of cinema to visual arts genre. Likecinema, video art relies on the lapse of time,and the viewers willingness to allow the workto unfold from frame to frame.

While black women artists have been creatingvideo art for more than 30 years as bothexperimental cinema and as visual art, mostexhibitions featuring video art have notcollectively or exclusively examined thecontributions that black women make to thisexciting field. Cinema Remixed andReloaded: Black Women Artists and theMoving Image Since 1970 is the first

350 Spelman Lane, SWAtlanta, Georgia 30314

404/ 270-5607www.spelman.edu/museum

[email protected]

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exhibition that provides a close examinationof black women video artists.

Baltimore

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of MarylandAfrican American History and CultureMaryland Artist Showcase: Worksof Art by Patrick HenryOn view through June 1, 2008

Highlighting more than 20 years of painting,thisArtist Showcase captures the essence

of the life and work of Patrick Henry. Hispassion for creativity and his solid work ethichas allowed him to become one of the mostrecognized artists on the Eastern Shore ofMaryland. Henry has a unique ability toeffectively depict the varying moods of hisnatural environment.

830 East Pratt StreetBaltimore, Maryland 21202

443/ 263-1800www.africanamericanculture.org

[email protected]

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of MarylandAfrican American History and CultureNew Visionaries Showcase: Worksof Art by Phylicia Ghee

On view through March 2, 2008

A Baltimore native and current student atthe Maryland Institute College of Art, the NewVisionaries Showcase features artist PhyliciaGhee. Through her interest in drawing andpainting she has developed a passion forphotography. Her background in paintingopened the door to experimentation in usingdifferent media in different ways. Thissparked her interest in creating mixed-mediaworks that challenge the boundaries ofphotography.



[email protected]

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of MarylandAfrican American History and CultureTextural Rhythms: Constructingthe Jazz Tradition, Contemporary

African American QuiltsOn view through March 30, 2008



[email protected]

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Textural Rhythms features 64 quiltsrepresenting the relationship between art andjazz. Quilt making, like jazz, evokes a host ofcomplex rhythms and moods, captured by thecreative process and presented in a wovenmasterpiece by the artist. Just as the variedstyles of jazz are an intricate and complex

montage of notes and beats, the TexturalRhythms quilts are a complex montage offabric textures, intricate appliqu, andconventional piecing.

Boise

Boise Art MuseumFaith Ringgold: Mama Can Sing,Papa Can Blow

On view through March 23, 2008This exhibition highlights the paintings,drawings, prints, story quilts, and softsculpture of internationally known African-American artist, writer and educator FaithRinggold. In the 1980s Ringgold beganmaking story quilts, an art form that combinesstorytelling and quilt making with genrepainting. Through her brightly coloredimagery and mixed media, she examines abroad range of social and political issues. Bythe 1990s she had become one of theforemost progressive American artists of thetwentieth century and a successful author.

This exhibit, toured by ACA Galleries in NYC,consists of 40 mixed-media works spanningfour decades of Ringgold's career, 1964-2004.

670 Julia Davis DriveBoise, Idaho 83702

208/ 345-8330

http://boiseartmuseum.org/

Chicago

Chicago State UniversityPresidents GalleryMelvin R. Smith and Rose J.

Smith: Collage, Sculpture,Painting

January 25 February 29, 2008

Cook Administration Building3rd floor

9501 South Martin Luther King Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60628773/ 995-3905www.csu.edu

[email protected]

G. R. NNamdi Gallery ChicagoCharles SearlesGuardian: Retrospective

110 North PeoriaChicago, Illinois 60607

312/ 563-9240

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On view through January 26, 2008

This is a 30 year retrospective of CharlesSearles work.

www.grnnamdi.com

Museum of Science and IndustryBalcony of the West PavilionBlack Creativity 2008


The Black Creativity Juried Artexhibitionprovides a showcase for original works byprofessional and amateur African-Americanartists. Each year a distinguished jury selectswinning entries in the categories of ceramics,drawings, mixed medium, paintings,photography, sculpture and textiles.

57th

and Lake Shore DriveChicago, Illinois 60637

773/ 684-1414

College Park

The David C. Driskell Center for theStudy of the Visual Arts and Culture ofAfrican Americans and the AfricanDiasporaEvolution: Five Decades ofPrintmaking by David C. DriskellOn view through March 14, 2008

The exhibition is organized by the Driskell

Center and will highlight for the first time theprints of the renowned DistinguishedUniversity of Maryland Professor of Art,Emeritus, David C. Driskell, an artist, arthistorian, collector, curator, and educator andone of the most recognized and respectednames in the world of African American artand culture.

A catalogue accompanies this exhibition.

1214 Cole Student Activity BuildingUniversity of Maryland

College Park, Maryland 20742301/ 314-2615

driskellcenter.umd.edu/[email protected]

Detroit

Charles H. Wright Museum of AfricanAmerican HistoryColeman A. Young Exhibition RoomMaking Prints, Telling Stories:The Artistry of MargaretBurroughsOn view through May 18, 2008

315 East Warren AvenueDetroit, Michigan 48201

313/ 494-5800www.maah-detroit.org

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Organized from the collections of the CharlesH. Wright Museum, this exhibition features aselection of evocative prints created (anddonated to the Museum) by renowned artistMargaret Burroughs. Her works of art, oftencharacterized as examples of social realism,affectionately capture the essence of Africa

and the African Diaspora. In addition to workas a visual artist for more than 60 years, sheis also a poet, social activist and retirededucator (who served 30 years in the ChicagoPublic Schools). Burroughs, along with her latehusband, Charles, founded the DuSableMuseum of African American History inChicago, Illinois.

Charles H. Wright Museum of AfricanAmerican HistoryDaimler Chrysler Hall and A T & TGallery

Soul Sanctuary: Images of theAfrican American WorshipExperienceOn view through April 6, 2008Soul Sanctuaryis an exhibition thatcaptures the essence and rhythms of theblack church. Over the course of ten years,photographer Jason Miccolo Johnson traversedthe country, visiting large mega-churches,and small store-front churches. During thattime he took more than 15,000 black andwhite images of which 75 are included in theexhibition.




Hartford

The Amistad Center for Art and Cultureat the Wadsworth Atheneum Museumof ArtMartin Luther King, Jr.: Life, Timesand LegacyOn view through April 27, 2008

This year (2008) marks the 40th anniversaryof Martin Luther King, Jr.s assassination. Thisexhibition reflects on Dr. Kings quest forfreedom and equality, and asks if what hecalled a sense of brotherhood among nationsexists today. Martin Luther King, Jr.displays imagery from the civil rights era andincludes work by contemporary artists whoexamine themes of race and injustice inAmerica.

600 Main StreetHartford, Connecticut 06103-2990

860/ 838-4233amistadartandculture.org

[email protected]

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Artists Elizabeth Catlett, Jeff Donaldson, DavidDriskell, Terrence Hammonds, WadsworthJarrell, Gordon Parks, Alexis Peskine, SheilaPree-Bright, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar,Moneta Sleet, Travis Somerville, and othersare represented in the exhibition.

Jackson

The Mississippi Museum of ArtJacob Lawrences MigrationSeries: Selections from ThePhillips Collection

January 26 - April 6, 2008

This exhibition features a small selection ofpaintings from Lawrences important

Migration Series (begun in 1940), whichdepicts the migration of African Americansfrom the rural South to the urban North duringand after World War I. The Great Migrationwas the largest movement of black peoplesince slavery removed Africans to theAmericas. An illustrated gallery guideaccompanies the exhibition.

380 South Lamar StreetJackson, Mississippi 39201

601/ 960-1515www.msmuseumart.org

Jacksonville

University of North FloridaUniversity GalleryLegacy; Continuum: David C.Driskell and Jefferson Pinder

January 14- February 21, 2008

David C. Driskell is a dynamic artist,historian, collector, curator, and teacher. Hispaintings and collages can be found in majormuseums and private collections around theworld. In 2000, Dr. Driskell received theNational Humanities Medalfrom President

Bill Clinton for his contribution to Americanculture. The University of Maryland haspreserved his legacy by establishing theDavid C. Driskell Center for the Study of theVisual Arts and Culture of African Americansand the African Diaspora.

Jefferson Pinder has created a series of quilts,films, bound histories, collage, and scrollsthat communicate the Afro-Americanexperience. Pinder is feeding into the Afro-

University GalleryFounders Hall, Building Two

4567 St. John Bluff RoadJacksonville, Florida 32224

904/ 620-2534www.unf.edu/dept/gallery/exhibit.html

[email protected]

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American continuum of art making by sifting,cutting, slicing contemporary mediaelements in search of fragments of truth andidentity.

Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo Institute of ArtsJacob LawrenceJanuary 26 April 20, 2008

A collection of works from one of the mostinfluential artists to emerge from the HarlemRenaissance era. Nearly 100 lively colorfulprints including 36 individual pieces plusthree narrative series.

314 South Park StreetKalamazoo, Michigan 49007

269/ 349-7775kiarts.org/museum

[email protected]

Los Angeles

California African American MuseumA Womans Journey: The Lightand Work of Artis LaneOn view through March 2, 2008

This first retrospective of Artis Lane is anexploration of a painter/sculptors workspanning more than 60 years. Her creativevision is captured in drawings and sculptures,ranging from studio nudes, to traditionalportraits, to more abstract creations. The

exhibition includes self-portraits, as well asrepresentations of family and friends, andbusts and paintings of historical figures.Painted portraits include world-renownedfigures, such as Oprah Winfrey, President JohnFitzgerald Kennedy, Aretha Franklin, andothers whose public image is captured sopersonally. The exhibition also includes worksrepresenting Lanes current metaphysical,sculptural pieces, reflecting her continuingevolution as a woman and an artist.

600 State DriveExposition Park

Los Angeles, California 90037213/ 744-7432

[email protected]

MOCA Pacific Design Center

Black Panther: The RevolutionaryArt of Emory DouglasOn view through January 20, 2008

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art ofEmory Douglas traces the graphic art madeby Emory Douglas while he worked asminister of culture for the Black Panther Partyfrom 1967 until its discontinuation in the early

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los

Angeles8687 Melrose Avenue

Design Plaza G102West Hollywood, California 90069

310/ 289-5223www.moca.org/

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1980s. Douglas's powerful visuals helpeddefine the trademark visual style of thegroup's newspapers, posters, and pamphlets.Douglas's substantial body of work exists as apowerful graphic record of the Black Panthers'legacy, reflecting their development andevolving mission to improve the lives of

African Americans by calling for resistanceand change, as well providing social servicesto their communities. With a firmunderstanding of the need to disseminateinformation and communicate the party'sagenda visually, Douglas's bold illustrationsand striking images spoke forcefully to acommunity ravaged by poverty, policebrutality, and poor living conditions. Theexhibition includes approximately 150 ofDouglas's most influential works, which serveas a testament to the efficacy of visual art tocommunicate a political position.


Louisville

GalleryActors Theatre of Louisville14th Annual African American ArtExhibition

January 29 through February 23, 2008

This exhibition is an exuberant array of workby local and regional artists, ranging from

sculpture in various media to unique mixedmedia collages and batik to evocativepaintings and photography.

Kevin Cole, black artist and art educator, isthe juror for this fourteenth annual.

316 West Main StreetLouisville, Kentucky 40202-4218

502/ 584-1265www.actorstheatre.org/visit_gallery.ht

[email protected]

The Speed Art MuseumGees Bend: The Architecture ofthe QuiltOn view through March 16, 2008

Gees Bend: The Architecture of theQuiltexamines the resurgence of interest inquilting in the community of Gees Bend,Alabama, and documents the development ofkey traditional quilt patternshousetop,court-house steps, flying geese, and stripquiltingthrough the presentation ofoutstanding examples created from the 1930sinto the 21st century.

2035 South Third StreetLouisville, Kentucky 40208

502/ 634-2700www.speedmuseum.org

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Memphis

Stax Museum of American Soul MusicOTIS REDDING FROM MACON TO

MEMPHIS: An Exhibit from thePrivate Collection of ZelmaReddingOn view through April 30, 2008

With items on loan from Otis Reddingswidow and daughter, the exhibit features acollection of never-before-shown familyphotographs taken on the Reddings 300-acreranch outside Macon, and shows more thanOtis Redding the singer and entertainer.

Stax Music AcademyThe Soulsville Charter School

926 East McLenmore AvenueMemphis, Tennessee 38106

901/ 261-6324www.staxmuseum.com

www.staxmusicacademy.orgwww.thesoulsvillecharterschool.org

Stax Museum of American Soul MusicSTAX HERE AND NOW: CurrentImages of the Stars of StaxRecordsOn view through April 30, 2008

For this exhibit, the organizers dispersed agroup of photographers around the country tocapture images of these living recordinglegends as a way of showing that, while thepast is important, it is also imperative toillustrate that the present and future are partof a more all-encompassing legacy thatcontinues to make history today. From busy

recording studios and still-enthralling liveperformances, to bucolic farm life and sharingtime with friends and family, the images inSTAX HERE AND NOWare meant to conveythe idea of lives lived in the moment, energystill abounding, and the unique personalitiesbehind the famed personas. The exhibitincludes images of Isaac Hayes, Al Bell,William Bell, Larry Dodson, and JamesAlexander of the Bar-Kays, Jean Knight,Booker T. Jones, Eddie Floyd, Carla Thomas,and many others.

Stax Music AcademyThe Soulsville Charter School926 East McLenmore AvenueMemphis, Tennessee 38106



Milwaukee

Walkers Point Center for the ArtsThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly:Relationships and Love

January 25 March 1, 2008

911 West National AvenueMilwaukee, Wisconsin 53204

414/ 672-2787www.wpca-milwaukee.org/

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly:Relationships and Love is an invitationaland juried art exhibition organized by African-American Artists Beginning to EducateAmericans About African American Art (ABEA)in collaboration with Walkers Point Center forthe Arts (WPCA).

Nashville

Frist Center for the Visual ArtsAaron Douglas: African AmericanModernist

January 18 April 13, 2008

Aaron Douglas: African AmericanModernistpresents the first nationallytouring retrospective of the work of Aaron

Douglas (1899-1979), one of the foremostvisual artists from the Harlem Renaissance.This exhibition brings together rarely seenworks by the artist with approximately 40paintings and 30 works on paper, including afew by his contemporaries. Douglas combinedangular cubist rhythms and a seductive ArtDeco dynamism with traditional AfricanAmerican imagery to develop a radically newvisual vocabulary. His forceful ideas anddistinctive artistic forms made a lastingimpact on American modernism.


919 BroadwayNashville, Tennessee 37203-3822

615/ 244-3340www.fristcenter.org

[email protected]

New Britain

New Britain Museum of American ArtThe World of Charles EthanPorter: Nineteenth-Century

African American ArtistJanuary 12 March 16, 2008

Charles Ethan Porter (c. 1847-1923) beganpainting in the aftermath of the Civil War and

worked well into the twentieth century,creating masterpieces of the American still-life tradition. He was also celebrated in hisday as a skillful colorist. The World ofCharles Ethan Porterwill feature dozens ofPorters still lifes, landscapes and portraits,and introduce audiences to this shadowypainter who deftly combined the Americanluminist tradition with that of the FrenchBarbizon School. The exhibition was organizedby the New Britain Museum of American Art in

56 Lexington StreetNew Britain, Connecticut 06052-1412

860/ 229-0257www.nbmaa.org

[email protected]

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Connecticut and accompanied by a newscholarly publication.

New York

Bill Hodges GalleryHighlights of the National BlackFine Art Show


The Gallery is proud to present an exhibitionof artists of the African Diaspora who will beincluded at their booth at the National BlackFine Arts Show. Artists will include CharlesAlston, Glenn Ligon, Norman Lewis, RomareBearden and Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe.

24 West 57th StreetNew York, New York 10019


Bill Hodges GalleryIntimate Portraits: JeanneMoutoussamy-AsheOn view through January 19, 2008



June Kelly GalleryDebra Priestly: Passage,

paintings and works on paperOn view through January 15, 2008

Entitled Passage, this new body of work,references moments in time, a channel, acourse, a means of access, a road, a route oran opening. Priestly employs a variety ofmedia acrylic, digital photo transfer,gouache, graphite and collage.

591 BroadwayNew York, New York 10012

212/ 226-1660www.junekellygallery.com

The Studio Museum in HarlemKori Newkirk: 1997 - 2007On view through March 9, 2008

Kori Newkirk (b. 1970) is a celebratedmultidisciplinary artist whose conceptualpractice is based on transforming modestmaterials into loaded signifiers that questionboth cultural and aesthetic notions of beauty.Newkirk elegantly blends medium andmessage-using photographs, wax, hairpomade, beads and neon lights-to forge anew paradigm in art practice. This surveyexhibition presents work produced sinceNewkirk received his MFA from the University


212/ 864-4500www.studiomuseum.org

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of California at Irvine includes a site-specificproject and illustrates how interrelatedstrands of his practice have converged anddeveloped over time.

Whitney Museum of American ArtLipman Gallery on the 5th floormezzanine

Jacob Lawrences MigrationSeries: Selections from thePhillips CollectionOn view through January 6, 2008

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), a distinguishedartist, teacher and humanitarian, is perhapsbest known for his visual masterpieceMigration Series (1940-41), which depictedthe mass relocation of millions of AfricanAmerican from the rural South to theindustrial North during the Depression.Migration Series is a rare treasure ofmodern painting. The exhibition-selectionsfrom The Phillips Collection of Washington,DC-will feature seventeen of the sixty panelsthat were completed in 1941 and broughtLawrence national fame when they werefeatured in an issue ofFortune magazine thesame year.

945 Madison Avenue at 75th

StreetNew York, New York 100211- 800-WHITNEY

www.whitney.org

Whitney Museum of American ArtKara Walker: My Complement, My

Enemy, My Oppressor, My LoveOn view through February 3, 2008

Kara Walker: My Complement, MyEnemy, My Oppressor, My Love is the firstcomprehensive presentation of the artistswork in all of its diversity. The exhibitionexamines Walkers career to date through abody of work that has challenged both theconstruct of American history and the code ofmodern representation. Her visual epicnarratives made of paper silhouettessystematically and critically walk a line thattakes us from the antebellum South to a

deconstruction of modernity and its roots. TheHammer is the only West Coast venue for theshow.

945 Madison Avenue at 75th StreetNew York, New York 10021

1- 800-WHITNEYwww.whitney.org

Norfolk

Chrysler Museum of Art 245 West Olney Road

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Bare Witness: Photographs fromGordon Parks


Gordon Parks, who died in 2006 at age 93,documented crime and poverty, as well as itsoppositeglamour. An African Americanphotographer who began workingprofessionally in the 1940s, Parks tackled theharsh truth and dignity of the black urban andrural poor in the United States. He alsoestablished himself as a foremost fashionphotographer, providing spreads forrespected magazines such as Vogue. Inaddition to his documentary and fashionphotography, Parks was a filmmaker, author,musician, and publisher, a renaissance manwhose career embodied the American ideal ofequality and whose art was bound up with hispersonal life. This exhibition is comprised of73 images.


Norfolk, Virginia 23510757/ 664-6200

www.chrysler.org

Pensacola

Pensacola Museum of ArtKugelman Family and ThorntonGalleriesEd Clark: For the Sake of theSearch,60 Year Retrospective

On view through January 12, 2008

Ed Clark is an abstract painter whose workhas drawn accolades internationally for fivedecades. Born in the Storyville section of NewOrleans in 1926, Ed Clark studied at the ArtInstitute of Chicago from 1947 to 1951 andLAcademie de la Grande Chaumire in Parisin 1952. He is the first painter credited withworking on a shaped canvas, an innovationthat influenced contemporary art through the1950s and 1960s. He is also known for hispowerful brush stroke, large-scale canvases,and especially, his use of color, which has

earned him the title Abstract Impressionist.Clark experiments with inventive techniquessuch as his progressive use of the pushbroom. His work continues to evolve andastonish.

This exhibition is organized by the GRNNamdi Gallery in New York.

407 South Jefferson StreetPensacola, Florida 32502

850/ 432-6247www.pensacolamuseumofart.orginfo@pensacolamuseumofart.org

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Sarasota

The John and Mable Ringling Museumof Art

Jacob Lawrence: Three Series ofPrints- Genesis, Hiroshima, andToussaint LOuverture

January 26 May 4, 2008

The exhibition features 44 framed worksincluding: 31 color prints and 13 text pagesfrom the three Series. Also included are textpanels with an introductory exhibition essay,a chronology, and photos of the artist. Theexhibition is curated by Peter Nesbett, editorofJacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints(1963-2000) and The Catalogue Raisonn.

5401 Bay Shore RoadSarasota, Florida 34243

941/ 359-5700www.ringling.org/

Selinsgrove

Lore Degenstein Art GalleryThe Harmon and Harriet KelleyCollection of African American

Art: Works on PaperJanuary 19 March 5, 2008

The sixty-nine works on paper in thisexhibition date from the late1800s to 2002and represent just a fraction of what iscontained in the Harmon and Harriet Kelley

Collection of San Antonio, Texas one of thecountry's major collections of AfricanAmerican art.

Included in the exhibition are drawings,etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels,acrylics, gouaches, linoleum and color screenprints by such noted artists as Ron Adams,Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, AaronDouglas, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White,Elizabeth Catlett, John Biggers, Henry OssawaTanner, Eldizer Cortor, Margaret Burroughs,and many other outstanding lesser knownartists.

Susquehanna University514 University Avenue

Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania 17870-9921570/ 372-4058

www.susqu.edu/art_gallery

Talladega

Talladega CollegeDepartment of Fine ArtsGoodnow Art GalleryTim Davis: REFLECTIONS

January 7- 30, 2008

Talladega CollegeDepartment of Fine Arts

Goodnow Art Gallery813 Battle Street West

Talladega, Alabama 35169

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256/ 761-6299www.talladega.edu

Virginia Beach

The Contemporary Art Center ofVirginiaEdgar Arceneaux


Edgar Arceneaux continuously works on thethemes of forms manifested in language andhow knowledge is derived from them. In hisdrawings, objects and film installations,personal as well as collective memories, bothconsciously and unconsciously, branch outand cross over through a combination ofelements which often appear conflictive.

Forms are revealed through repetition, theaccumulation of experiences, and often evenin the poetic redundancies of language itself.

2200 Parks AvenueVirginia Beach, Virginia 23451

757/ 425-0000www.cacv.org

Washington, DC

Smithsonian Anacostia CommunityMuseumEast of the River: Continuity andChangeOn view through November 9, 2008

East of the River: Continuity andChange is a documentation and exhibitionproject that looks at the community life ofneighborhoods east of the Anacostia River onthe occasion of the Anacostia CommunityMuseums 40th anniversary. The exhibit,which occupies all three of the Museumsgalleries, insightfully explores thedevelopment of Washington communities eastof the Anacostia River from a provocative yetuniversal perspective --- the struggle overland: who owns it, who controls it, who profitsfrom it and how residents determine their own

destiny.

1901 Fort Place, SEWashington, DC 20020

202/ 633-4820www.anacostia.si.edu

Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryLet Your Motto Be Resistance:

African American PortraitsOn view through March 2, 2008

This exhibition of photographic portraits of

Donald W. Reynolds Center forAmerican Art and Portraiture

8th and F Streets, NWWashington, DC 20001

202/ 633-8280www.npg.si.edu/

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African Americans comes from the NationalPortrait Gallerys collection. They illuminatethe variety of ways that African Americansresisted and redefined an America thatneeded but rarely accepted its black citizens.Guest curator and photo-historian, DeborahWillis, selected the images from the National

Portrait Gallerys extensive photographycollection.

A catalog accompanies this exhibition.

Williamstown

Williams College Museum of ArtUnchained Legacies

January 26 June 29, 2008

This exhibition highlights two newcontemporary art acquisitions by themuseum: Stowage(1997) by Willie Cole andAbsolut Power(2003) by Hank WillisThomas. Both works visually quote thediagram of the Brooks Slave ship (1808)evidence of the organization of human cargoduring transport from Africa, or what hasbecome known as the Middle Passage. Theexhibition, a collaboration with Chapin RareBook Library (Williams College), provides ahistorical context for the contemporary use ofthis infamous image.

15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Suite 2Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267

413/ 597-2429www.wcma.org

February

Athens

Georgia Museum of ArtRachel Cosby Conway and AlfredHeber Holbrook GalleriesI am in the garden: African

American Art from the Collections

February 9 March 6, 2008I am in the garden . . . features imagescreated by African American artists during the20th century. The exhibition incorporates keyimages from the permanent collection,including mixed media works and paintings byRomare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence,influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. Otherworks in this exhibition are by accomplishedmid-career artists, including Beverly

The University of GeorgiaGeorgia Museum of Art

90 Carlton StreetAthens, Georgia 30602

706/ 542-GMOA

www.uga.edu/gamuseum/index.html

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Buchanan, Sam Gilliam and Richard H. Hunt.Contemporary image-makers Lorna Simpsonand Kara Walker address issues related toracism, identity and feminism. The exhibitionalso includes works created by Southern self-taught artists such as Willie Jinks, Jimmy LeeSudduth and Purvis Young.

Atlanta

Hammonds House Galleries andResource Center for African AmericanArtThe Paintings of Sedrick HuckabyOn view through April 6, 2008

The African-American family and its heritage

has been the content of his painterly world forthe last few years. Through portraiture he hasbeen depicting the African-American familyand has chosen to paint quilts as an elementof our heritage. In large-scale portraits offamily and friends, Huckaby tries toaggrandize ordinary people by painting themon a monumental scale. Although he has usedvarious references while painting, Huckaby ismost enthusiastic about painting from a livesitter. Huckaby hopes these paintings not onlycelebrate the sitter's beautiful facial featuresbut also sends the message that ordinarypeople, who may not be great in society'seyes, should be of paramount importance tous.



Spelman College Museum of Fine ArtCinema Remixed and Reloaded:Black Women Artists and theMoving Image Since 1970, Part IIOn view through May 24, 2008

Video art emerged in the later half of the20th century and has rapidly moved from therealm of cinema to visual arts genre. Like

cinema, video art relies on the lapse of time,and the viewers willingness to allow the workto unfold from frame to frame.

While black women artists have been creatingvideo art for more than 30 years as bothexperimental cinema and as visual art, mostexhibitions featuring video art have notcollectively or exclusively examined thecontributions that black women make to this



[email protected]

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exciting field. Cinema Remixed andReloaded: Black Women Artists and theMoving Image Since 1970 is the firstexhibition that provides a close examinationof black women video artists.

Baltimore


Highlighting more than 20 years of painting,thisArtist Showcase captures the essenceof the life and work of Patrick Henry. Hispassion for creativity and his solid work ethic

has allowed him to become one of the mostrecognized artists on the Eastern Shore ofMaryland. Henry has a unique ability toeffectively depict the varying moods of hisnatural environment.



[email protected]

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of MarylandAfrican American History and CultureNew Visionaries Showcase: Worksof Art by Phylicia GheeOn view through March 2, 2008

A Baltimore native and current student atthe Maryland Institute College of Art, the NewVisionaries Showcase features artist PhyliciaGhee. Through her interest in drawing andpainting she has developed a passion forphotography. Her background in paintingopened the door to experimentation in usingdifferent media in different ways. Thissparked her interest in creating mixed-mediaworks that challenge the boundaries ofphotography.



[email protected]

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of MarylandAfrican American History and CultureTextural Rhythms: Constructingthe Jazz Tradition, Contemporary


Textural Rhythms features 64 quiltsrepresenting the relationship between art and

830 East Pratt StreetBaltimore, Maryland 21202443/ 263-1800

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jazz. Quilt making, like jazz, evokes a host ofcomplex rhythms and moods, captured by thecreative process and presented in a wovenmasterpiece by the artist. Just as the variedstyles of jazz are an intricate and complexmontage of notes and beats, the TexturalRhythms quilts are a complex montage of

fabric textures, intricate appliqu, andconventional piecing.

Boise

Boise Art MuseumFaith Ringgold: Mama Can Sing,Papa Can BlowOn view through March 23, 2008

This exhibition highlights the paintings,drawings, prints, story quilts, and softsculpture of internationally known African-American artist, writer and educator FaithRinggold. In the 1980s Ringgold beganmaking story quilts, an art form that combinesstorytelling and quilt making with genrepainting. Through her brightly coloredimagery and mixed media, she examines abroad range of social and political issues. Bythe 1990s she had become one of theforemost progressive American artists of thetwentieth century and a successful author.

This exhibit, toured by ACA Galleries in NYC,consists of 40 mixed-media works spanning

four decades of Ringgold's career, 1964-2004.


208/ 345-8330http://boiseartmuseum.org/

Chicago

Chicago State UniversityPresidents GalleryMelvin R. Smith and Rose J.Smith: Collage, Sculpture,

PaintingOn view through February 29, 2008

Cook Administration Building3rd floor

9501 South Martin Luther King DriveChicago, Illinois 60628

773/ 995-3905www.csu.edu

[email protected]

Museum of Science and IndustryBalcony of the West PavilionBlack Creativity 2008On view through February 29, 2008

57th and Lake Shore DriveChicago, Illinois 60637

773/ 684-1414

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The Black Creativity Juried Artexhibitionprovides a showcase for original works.

College Park

The David C. Driskell Center for theStudy of the Visual Arts and Culture ofAfrican Americans and the AfricanDiasporaEvolution: Five Decades ofPrintmaking by David C. DriskellOn view through March 14, 2008

The exhibition is organized by the DriskellCenter and will highlight for the first time theprints of the renowned DistinguishedUniversity of Maryland Professor of Art,Emeritus, David C. Driskell, an artist, art

historian, collector, curator, and educator andone of the most recognized and respectednames in the world of African American artand culture.


1214 Cole Student Activities BuildingUniversity of Maryland

College Park, Maryland 20742301/ 314-2615

driskellcenter.umd.edu/[email protected]

Des Plaines

Koehnline Museum of ArtConvergence: Jewish and African

American Artists in Depression-era

ChicagoFebruary 7 March 28, 2008

This exhibition reveals the cooperative spiritthat existed between Jewish and AfricanAmerican artists in Chicago during the GreatDepression. Featured African American artistsinclude Charles White, Margaret Burroughs,Bernard Goss, George Neal, and MarionPerkins.

Oakton Community CollegeDes Plaines Campus1600 East Golf Road

Des Plaines, Illinois 60016847/ 635-2633

www.oakton.edu/museum/

Detroit


Organized from the collections of the CharlesH. Wright Museum, this exhibition features aselection of evocative prints created (and



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donated to the Museum) by renowned artistMargaret Burroughs. Her works of art, oftencharacterized as examples of social realism,affectionately capture the essence of Africaand the African Diaspora. In addition to workas a visual artist for more than 60 years, sheis also a poet, social activist and retired

educator (who served 30 years in the ChicagoPublic Schools). Burroughs, along with her latehusband, Charles, founded the DuSableMuseum of African American History inChicago, Illinois.

Charles H. Wright Museum of AfricanAmerican HistoryDaimler Chrysler Hall and A T & TGallerySoul Sanctuary: Images of the

African American Worship

ExperienceOn view through April 6, 2008

Soul Sanctuaryis an exhibition thatcaptures the essence and rhythms of theblack church. Over the course of ten years,photographer Jason Miccolo Johnson traversedthe country, visiting large mega-churches,and small store-front churches. During thattime he took more than 15,000 black andwhite images of which 75 are included in theexhibition.




Durham

Nasher Museum of Art at DukeUniversityBarkley L. Hendricks: Birth of CoolFebruary 7 July 13, 2008

The Nasher Museum presents the first careerretrospective of the renowned American artistBarkley L. Hendricks. Born in 1945,

Hendricks's unique work resides at the nexusof American realism and post-modernism, aspace somewhere between portraitists ChuckClose and Alex Katz and pioneering blackconceptualists David Hammons and AdrianPiper. He is best known for his stunning, life-sized portraits of people of color from theurban northeast.

Cool, empowering and sometimes

2001 Campus DriveDurham, North Carolina 27705

919/ 684-5135www.nasher.duke.edu/[email protected]

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confrontational, Hendricks's artistic privilegingof a culturally complex black body has pavedthe way for today's younger generation ofartists. This unprecedented exhibition ofHendricks's paintings will include work from1964 to the present.

A catalogue will accompany this exhibition.

Fort Worth

Modern Art Museum of Forth WorthMartin PuryearFebruary 24 May 18, 2008

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worthpresents a major exhibition of the sculpture ofthe acclaimed American artist Martin Puryear(b.1941) organized by The Museum of ModernArt, New York. The retrospective features

approximately forty-five sculptures, followingthe development of Puryear's artistic careerover the last thirty years. Puryear's works,often deceptively simple, can be associatedwith the sentiments of his Minimalistcontemporaries, but his supremely quiet,poignant forms continually defy furthercategorization and reflect his own uniquestyle. These often monumental sculptures aredistinctly sophisticated, especially in regard tothe artists skills as a woodworker.

3200 Darnell StreetFort Worth, Texas 76107

817/ 738-9215www.mamfw.org

[email protected]

Hampton

Hampton University MuseumNew Power Generation 2008: ANational Juried ExhibitionFebruary 8 July 26, 2008

New Power Generation 2008, organizedby the Hampton University Museum, is anational competition for contemporary art bypeople of African descent. It is an opportunityfor the museum to enhance its long-heldreputation as a documenter of movements inthe visual arts by focusing its attention onemerging and working artists who arecreating new forms and charting newdirections.

Napoleon Jones-Henderson is the juror for thisyear's competition. Exhibiting extensively inthe United Sates and internationally,Henderson is a member of AfriCobra (AfricanCommune of Bad Relevant Artists) since1969. He is currently executive director of theResearch Institute of African and African

Huntington BuildingHampton, Virginia 23668

757/727-5308www.hamptonu.edu/museum

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Diaspora Arts, Inc., in Roxbury,Massachusetts, and an associate professor ofart at Benedict College, Columbia, SouthCarolina.

Hartford

The Amistad Center for Art and Cultureat the Wadsworth Atheneum Museumof ArtMartin Luther King, Jr.: Life, Timesand LegacyOn view through April 27, 2008

This year (2008) marks the 40th anniversaryof Martin Luther King, Jr.s assassination. Thisexhibition reflects on Dr. Kings quest forfreedom and equality, and asks if what he

called a sense of brotherhood among nationsexists today. Martin Luther King, Jr.displays imagery from the civil rights era andincludes work by contemporary artists whoexamine themes of race and injustice inAmerica.



860/ 838-4233amistadartandculture.org

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Jackson

The Mississippi Museum of ArtJacob Lawrences MigrationSeries: Selections from ThePhillips CollectionOn view through April 6, 2008

This exhibition features a small selection ofpaintings from Lawrences importantMigration Series (begun in 1940), whichdepicts the migration of African Americansfrom the rural South to the urban North duringand after World War I. The Great Migrationwas the largest movement of black peoplesince slavery removed Africans to theAmericas. An illustrated gallery guideaccompanies the exhibition.



Kalamazoo

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Kalamazoo Institute of ArtsJacob LawrenceOn view through April 20, 2008

A collection of works from one of the most

influential artists to emerge from the HarlemRenaissance era. Nearly 100 lively colorfulprints including 36 individual pieces plusthree narrative series.



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Los Angeles

California African American MuseumA Womans Journey: The Lightand Work of Artis LaneOn view through March 2, 2008

This first retrospective of Artis Lane is anexploration of a painter/sculptors workspanning more than 60 years. Her creativevision is captured in drawings and sculptures,ranging from studio nudes, to traditionalportraits, to more abstract creations. Theexhibition includes self-portraits, as well asrepresentations of family and friends, andbusts and paintings of historical figures.Painted portraits include world-renownedfigures, such as Oprah Winfrey, President JohnFitzgerald Kennedy, Aretha Franklin, andothers whose public image is captured sopersonally. The exhibition also includes works

representing Lanes current metaphysical,sculptural pieces, reflecting her continuingevolution as a woman and an artist.

600 State DriveExposition Park

Los Angeles, California 90037213/ 744-7432

[email protected]

Louisville

The Speed Art MuseumGees Bend: The Architecture ofthe QuiltOn view through March 16, 2008

Gees Bend: The Architecture of theQuiltexamines the resurgence of interest inquilting in the community of Gees Bend,Alabama, and documents the development ofkey traditional quilt patternshousetop,court-house steps, flying geese, and stripquiltingthrough the presentation ofoutstanding examples created from the 1930sinto the 21st century.

2035 South Third StreetLouisville, Kentucky 40208


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Memphis

Stax Museum of American Soul MusicOTIS REDDING FROM MACON TOMEMPHIS: An Exhibit from thePrivate Collection of ZelmaReddingOn view through April 30, 2008






For this exhibit, the organizers dispersed agroup of photographers around the country tocapture images of these living recordinglegends as a way of showing that, while thepast is important, it is also imperative toillustrate that the present and future are partof a more all-encompassing legacy thatcontinues to make history today. From busyrecording studios and still-enthralling liveperformances, to bucolic farm life and sharingtime with friends and family, the images inSTAX HERE AND NOWare meant to conveythe idea of lives lived in the moment, energystill abounding, and the unique personalitiesbehind the famed personas. The exhibitincludes images of Isaac Hayes, Al Bell,William Bell, Larry Dodson, and JamesAlexander of the Bar-Kays, Jean Knight,Booker T. Jones, Eddie Floyd, Carla Thomas,and many others.




Milwaukee

Walkers Point Center for the ArtsThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly:Relationships and LoveOn view through March 1, 2008

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly:Relationships and Love is an invitationaland juried art exhibition organized by African-



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American Artists Beginning to EducateAmericans About African American Art (ABEA)in collaboration with Walkers Point Center forthe Arts (WPCA).

Nashville

Frist Center for the Visual ArtsAaron Douglas: African AmericanModernistOn view through April 13, 2008

Aaron Douglas: African AmericanModernistpresents the first nationallytouring retrospective of the work of AaronDouglas (1899-1979), one of the foremostvisual artists from the Harlem Renaissance.This exhibition brings together rarely seen

works by the artist with approximately 40paintings and 30 works on paper, including afew by his contemporaries. Douglas combinedangular cubist rhythms and a seductive ArtDeco dynamism with traditional AfricanAmerican imagery to develop a radically newvisual vocabulary. His forceful ideas anddistinctive artistic forms made a lastingimpact on American modernism.




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New Britain


African American ArtistOn view through March 16, 2008

Charles Ethan Porter (c. 1847-1923) beganpainting in the aftermath of the Civil War andworked well into the twentieth century,creating masterpieces of the American still-life tradition. He was also celebrated in hisday as a skillful colorist. The World of

Charles Ethan Porterwill feature dozens ofPorters still lifes, landscapes and portraits,and introduce audiences to this shadowypainter who deftly combined the Americanluminist tradition with that of the FrenchBarbizon School. The exhibition was organizedby the New Britain Museum of American Art inConnecticut and accompanied by a newscholarly publication.


860/ 229-0257www.nbmaa.org

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New York

Bill Hodges GalleryHighlights of the National BlackFine Art ShowOn view through February 9, 2008

The Gallery is proud to present an exhibitionof artists of the African Diaspora who will beincluded at their booth at the National BlackFine Arts Show. Artists will include CharlesAlston, Glenn Ligon, Norman Lewis, RomareBearden and Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe.



DC Moore GalleryJacob Lawrence, Moving Forward:Paintings 1936-1999

February 13 March 22, 2008

724 Fifth Avenue at 57th StreetNew York, New York 10019

212/ 247-2111

[email protected]

The Studio Museum in HarlemKori Newkirk: 1997 - 2007On view through March 9, 2008

Kori Newkirk (b. 1970) is a celebratedmultidisciplinary artist whose conceptualpractice is based on transforming modestmaterials into loaded signifiers that questionboth cultural and aesthetic notions of beauty.Newkirk elegantly blends medium and

message-using photographs, wax, hairpomade, beads and neon lights-to forge anew paradigm in art practice. This surveyexhibition presents work produced sinceNewkirk received his MFA from the Universityof California at Irvine includes a site-specificproject and illustrates how interrelatedstrands of his practice have converged anddeveloped over time.


212/ 864-4500www.studiomuseum.org

Whitney Museum of American ArtKara Walker: My Complement, My

Enemy, My Oppressor, My LoveOn view through February 3, 2008

Kara Walker: My Complement, MyEnemy, My Oppressor, My Love is the firstcomprehensive presentation of the artistswork in all of its diversity. The exhibitionexamines Walkers career to date through abody of work that has challenged both theconstruct of American history and the code of

945 Madison Avenue at 75th StreetNew York, New York 10021

1- 800-WHITNEYwww.whitney.org

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modern representation. Her visual epicnarratives made of paper silhouettessystematically and critically walk a line thattakes us from the antebellum South to adeconstruction of modernity and its roots. TheHammer is the only West Coast venue for theshow.

Norfolk

Chrysler Museum of ArtBare Witness: Photographs fromGordon ParksOn view through March 30, 2008

Gordon Parks, who died in 2006 at age 93,documented crime and poverty, as well as itsoppositeglamour. An African Americanphotographer who began workingprofessionally in the 1940s, Parks tackled theharsh truth and dignity of the black urban andrural poor in the United States. He alsoestablished himself as a foremost fashionphotographer, providing spreads forrespected magazines such as Vogue. Inaddition to his documentary and fashionphotography, Parks was a filmmaker, author,musician, and publisher, a renaissance manwhose career embodied the American ideal ofequality and whose art was bound up with hispersonal life. This exhibition is comprised of73 images.


245 West Olney RoadNorfolk, Virginia 23510

757/ 664-6200www.chrysler.org

Oakland

Joyce Gordon GalleryMalik Seneferu & Milton Bowens:Yea, We Said It, And No, WereNot Sorry!February 1 February 29, 2008

A Powerful message for Black History Month,

this mixed media exhibit features illustrationsand paintings, which serve as a call to createmore consciousness and solidarity in Blackcommunities. Discouraged by the disregard ofBlack history in the mainstream, and thedisintegration of values from black historyamong todays youth, their exhibit stressesthat blackness is rich, powerful andsomething of pride that extends beyond onemonth and far beyond the narrow, limited

406 14th StreetOakland, California 94612

510/ 465-8928www.joycegordongallery.com

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scope of pop culture. Both Seneferu andBowens are highly-accomplished illustratorsand fine artists, as well as political activists,not only throughout communities in the BayArea, but worldwide.

Philadelphia

African-American Museum inPhiladelphiaCretonnes of Design by LoisMailou JonesFebruary 8 April 20, 2008

This landmark exhibition featuresapproximately 40 Cretonnes created in 1923 1930. It will open for Black History Month.

701 Arch StreetPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19106

215/ 574-0380http://www.aampmuseum.org/

[email protected]

St. Bonaventure

Regina A. Quick Center for the ArtsRecovered Views: African

American Portraits, 1912-1925February 3 March 10, 2008

Forty stunning photographic portraits will bepresented in this exhibition that documentearly twentieth-century life in a vibrant blackMidwestern community, a society that has

rarely been depicted in any medium.

St. Bonaventure University3261 West State Road

St. Bonaventure, New York 14778716/ 375-2494

http://www.sbu.edu/go/arts-center/index.htm

[email protected]

Sarasota

The John and Mable Ringling Museumof Art

Jacob Lawrence: Three Series ofPrints- Genesis, Hiroshima, andToussaint LOuvertureOn view through May 4, 2008

The exhibition features 44 framed worksincluding: 31 color prints and 13 text pagesfrom the three Series. Also included are textpanels with an introductory exhibition essay,a chronology, and photos of the artist. Theexhibition is curated by Peter Nesbett, editorofJacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints(1963-2000) and The Catalogue Raisonn.

5401 Bay Shore RoadSarasota, Florida 34243

941/ 359-5700www.ringling.org/

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Selinsgrove

Lore Degenstein Art GalleryThe Harmon and Harriet KelleyCollection of African American

Art: Works on PaperOn view through March 5, 2008

The sixty-nine works on paper in thisexhibition date from the late1800s to 2002and represent just a fraction of what iscontained in the Harmon and Harriet KelleyCollection of San Antonio, Texas one of thecountry's major collections of AfricanAmerican art.

Included in the exhibition are drawings,etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels,acrylics, gouaches, linoleum and color screen

prints by such noted artists as Ron Adams,Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, AaronDouglas, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White,Elizabeth Catlett, John Biggers, Henry OssawaTanner, Eldizer Cortor, Margaret Burroughs,and many other outstanding lesser knownartists.

Susquehanna University514 University Avenue

Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania 17870-9921570/ 372-4058

www.susqu.edu/art_gallery

Virginia Beach

The Contemporary Art Center ofVirginiaEdgar ArceneauxOn view throughMarch 23, 2008

Edgar Arceneaux continuously works on thethemes of forms manifested in language andhow knowledge is derived from them. In hisdrawings, objects and film installations,personal as well as collective memories, bothconsciously and unconsciously, branch outand cross over through a combination ofelements which often appear conflictive.

Forms are revealed through repetition, theaccumulation of experiences, and often evenin the poetic redundancies of language itself.

2200 Parks AvenueVirginia Beach, Virginia 23451

757/ 425-0000www.cacv.org

Washington, DC

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International Visions-The GalleryPreston SampsonFebruary 28 - April 5, 2008

2629 Connecticut Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20008

202/ 234-5112www.inter-visions.com

[email protected]

Smithsonian Anacostia CommunityMuseumEast of the River: Continuity andChangeOn view through November 9, 2008

East of the River: Continuity andChange is a documentation and exhibitionproject that looks at the community life ofneighborhoods east of the Anacostia River onthe occasion of the Anacostia CommunityMuseums 40th anniversary. The exhibit,which occupies all three of the Museumsgalleries, insightfully explores thedevelopment of Washington communities eastof the Anacostia River from a provocative yetuniversal perspective --- the struggle overland: who owns it, who controls it, who profitsfrom it and how residents determine their owndestiny. The timeline covers the region'sNative American beginning through thepresent and into possible futures.

1901 Fort Place, SEWashington, DC 20020

202/ 633-4820www.anacostia.si.edu

Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryLet Your Motto Be Resistance:

African American PortraitsOn view through March 2, 2008This exhibition of photographic portraits ofAfrican Americans comes from the NationalPortrait Gallerys collection. They illuminatethe variety of ways that African Americansresisted and redefined an America thatneeded but rarely accepted its black citizens.Guest curator and photo-historian, DeborahWillis, selected the images from the NationalPortrait Gallerys extensive photography

collection.




202/ 633-8280www.npg.si.edu/

Smithsonian National Portrait GalleryRECOGNIZE! Hip Hop andContemporary PortraitureFebruary 8 October 26, 2008



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Since its inception in the 1970s, hip-hop hasbeen arguably the most influential andpopular musical form in America. Itspopularity extends beyond the urban centerswhere it was born and pervades youth culturethroughout the world. Images of hip-hop stars

are as pervasive as the music itself, and theNational Portrait Gallery is featuring the workof artists who have explored thisphenomenon. David Scheinbaum has beenphotographing hip-hop artists since 2000 bothin concert and off stage. Kehide Wiley, bestknown for his large, colorful paintings ofanonymous young black men, has createdportraits of hip-hop artists such as L.L. Cool Jand Ice T, each based on a famous Europeanor American painting from the 17th through19th centuries. Nikki Giovanni, will write apoem that will be transcribed onto walls in theexhibition by artist Shinique Smith. TwoWashington D.C.-based graffiti artists are

creating four portrait murals to be installedin a hallway that connects the galleries.Jefferson Pinder created three video selfportraits that will be included in theinstallation.


202/ 633-8280www.npg.si.edu/

Williamstown

Williams College Museum of Art

Unchained LegaciesOn view through June 29, 2008

This exhibition highlights two newcontemporary art acquisitions by themuseum: Stowage(1997) by Willie Cole andAbsolut Power(2003) by Hank WillisThomas. Both works visually quote thediagram of the Brooks Slave ship (1808)evidence of the organization of human cargoduring transport from Africa, or what hasbecome known as the Middle Passage. Theexhibition, a collaboration with Chapin RareBook Library (Williams College), provides ahistorical context for the contemporary use of

this infamous image.

15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Suite 2Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267

413/ 597-2429www.wcma.org

Winston-Salem

Reynolda House Museum of AmericanArtAncestry and Innovation: African

2250 Reynolda RoadWinston-Salem, North Carolina 27106

336/758-5150

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American Art from the American Folk

Art MuseumFebruary 2 April 13, 2008

Culled from the American Folk Art Museumsrich holdings,Ancestry and Innovation

highlights complex and vibrant quilts,paintings, works on paper and sculpture bycontemporary African American artists.Comprising nine quilts and nearly 30 works ofart in various media,Ancestry andInnovation includes paintings by an eldergeneration of creators, such as David Butler,Sam Doyle, Bessie Harvey and ClementineHunter; works by contemporary masters, suchas Thornton Dial Sr.; and provocative piecesby emerging artists, such as Kevin Sampsonand Willie LeRoy Elliot.

www.reynolda.org/

March

Athens

Georgia Museum of ArtRachel Cosby Conway and AlfredHeber Holbrook GalleriesI am in the garden: African

American Art from the CollectionsOn view through March 6, 2008

I am in the garden . . . features imagescreated by African American artists during the20th century. The exhibition incorporates keyimages from the permanent collection,including mixed media works and paintings byRomare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence,influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. Otherworks in this exhibition are by accomplishedmid-career artists, including BeverlyBuchanan, Sam Gilliam and Richard H. Hunt.Contemporary image-makers Lorna Simpsonand Kara Walker address issues related toracism, identity and feminism. The exhibitionalso includes works created by Southern self-taught artists such as Willie Jinks, Jimmy LeeSudduth and Purvis Young.

The University of GeorgiaGeorgia Museum of Art

90 Carlton StreetAthens, Georgia 30602

706/ 542-GMOAwww.uga.edu/gamuseum/index.html

Atlanta

Hammonds House Galleries andResource Center for African AmericanArtThe Paintings of Sedrick Huckaby


404/ 612-0500www.hammondshouse.org

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On view through April 6, 2008

The African-American family and its heritagehas been the content of his painterly world forthe last few years. Through portraiture he hasbeen depicting the African-American familyand has chosen to paint quilts as an element

of our heritage. In large-scale portraits offamily and friends, Huckaby tries toaggrandize ordinary people by painting themon a monumental scale. Although he has usedvarious references while painting, Huckaby ismost enthusiastic about painting from a livesitter. Huckaby hopes these paintings not onlycelebrate the sitter's beautiful facial featuresbut also sends the message that ordinarypeople, who may not be great in society'seyes, should be of paramount importance tous.

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Spelman College Museum of Fine ArtCinema Remixed and Reloaded:Black Women Artists and theMoving Image Since 1970, Part IIOn view through May 24, 2008

Video art emerged in the later half of the20th century and has rapidly moved from therealm of cinema to visual arts genre. Likecinema, video art relies on the lapse of time,and the viewers willingness to allow the workto unfold from frame to frame.

While black women artists have been creatingvideo art for more than 30 years as bothexperimental cinema and as visual art, mostexhibitions featuring video art have notcollectively or exclusively examined thecontributions that black women make to thisexciting field. Cinema Remixed andReloaded: Black Women Artists and theMoving Image Since 1970 is the firstexhibition that provides a close examinationof black women video artists.



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Wertz ContemporaryVictor Ekpuk

March 28 May 17, 2008

This is a solo exhibition of mixed mediadrawings.

264 Peters StreetAtlanta, Georgia 30313


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Augusta

Morris Museum of ArtSomething to Look Forward To:

Abstract Art by 22 DistinguishedAmericans of African DescentMarch 22 - May 25, 2008

Something to Look Forward To payshomage to the exceptional talent, uniquevision, and courageous persistence of twenty-two African American visual artists who havecreated dynamic abstract images and objectsduring extended and successful careers. Theexhibition includes multimedia objects,paintings, sculpture, and furniture by artistssuch as Sam Gilliam, Mildred Thompson,Frank Bowling, among others.

1 Tenth StreetAugusta, Georgia 30901

706/ 724-7501www.themorris.org

Baltimore


Highlighting more than 20 years of painting,thisArtist Showcase captures the essenceof the life and work of Patrick Henry. Hispassion for creativity and his solid work ethic

has allowed him to become one of the mostrecognized artists on the Eastern Shore ofMaryland. Henry has a unique ability toeffectively depict the varying moods of hisnatural environment.



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Reginald F. Lewis Museum of MarylandAfrican American History and CultureNew Visionaries Showcase: Worksof Art by Phylicia GheeOn view through March 2, 2008

A Baltimore native and current student at

the Maryland Institute College of Art, the NewVisionaries Showcase features artist PhyliciaGhee. Through her interest in drawing andpainting she has developed a passion forphotography. Her background in paintingopened the door to experimentation in usingdifferent media in different ways. Thissparked her interest in creating mixed-mediaworks that challenge the boundaries ofphotography.



[email protected]

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Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland

African American History and CultureTextural Rhythms: Constructingthe Jazz Tradition, Contemporary


Textural Rhythms features 64 quiltsrepresenting the relationship between art andjazz. Quilt making, like jazz, evokes a host ofcomplex rhythms and moods, captured by thecreative process and presented in a wovenmasterpiece by the artist. Just as the variedstyles of jazz are an intricate and complexmontage of notes and beats, the Textural

Rhythms quilts are a complex montage offabric textures, intricate appliqu, andconventional piecing.

830 East Pratt Street

Baltimore, Maryland 21202443/ 263-1800www.africanamericanculture.org

[email protected]

Boise

Boise Art MuseumFaith Ringgold: Mama Can Sing,Papa Can BlowOn view through March 23, 2008

This exhibition highlights the paintings,drawings, prints, story quilts, and softsculpture of internationally known African-American artist, writer and educator FaithRinggold. In the 1980s Ringgold beganmaking story quilts, an art form that combinesstorytelling and quilt making with genrepainting. Through her brightly coloredimagery and mixed media, she examines abroad range of social and political issues. Bythe 1990s she had become one of theforemost progressive American artists of thetwentieth century and a successful author.

This exhibit, toured by ACA Galleries in NYC,consists of 40 mixed-media works spanningfour decades of Ringgold's career, 1964-2004.


208/ 345-8330http://boiseartmuseum.org/

College Park

The David C. Driskell Center for the 1214 Student Activities Building

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Study of the Visual Arts and Culture ofAfrican Americans and the AfricanDiasporaEvolution: Five Decades ofPrintmaking by David C. DriskellOn view through March 14, 2008

The exhibition is organized by the DriskellCenter and will highlight for the first time theprints of the renowned DistinguishedUniversity of Maryland Professor of Art,Emeritus, David C. Driskell, an artist, arthistorian, collector, curator, and educator andone of the most recognized and respectednames in the world of African American artand culture.


University of MarylandCollege Park, Maryland 20742

301/ 314-2615driskellcenter.umd.edu/

[email protected]

Des Plaines

Koehnline Museum of ArtConvergence: Jewish and African

American Artists in Depression-era

ChicagoOn view through March 28, 2008

During the Great Depression, artists ofdiverse backgrounds found ways to not onlydocument the pain of the era, but also createimages of hope. This exhibition reveals the

cooperative spirit that existed between Jewishand African American artists in Chicago duringthis challenging period of history. FeaturedAfrican American artists include CharlesWhite, Margaret Burroughs, Bernard Goss,George Neal, ad Marion Perkins. Jewish artistsinclude Morris Topchevsky, Mitchell Siporin,Sophie Wessel, Simon Gordon, Joyce Gourfain,and Tordos Geller.

Oakton Community CollegeDes Plaines Campus1600 East Golf Road

Des Plaines, Illinois 60016847/ 635-2633

www.oakton.edu/museum/

Detroit


Organized from the collections of the Charles

315 East Warren AvenueDetroit, Michigan 48201313/ 494-5800

www.maah-detroit.org

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H. Wright Museum, this exhibition features aselection of evocative prints created (anddonated to the Museum) by renowned artistMargaret Burroughs. Her works of art, oftencharacterized as examples of social realism,affectionately capture the essence of Africaand the African Diaspora. In addition to work

as a visual artist for more than 60 years, sheis also a poet, social activist and retirededucator (who served 30 years in the ChicagoPublic Schools). Burroughs, along with her latehusband, Charles, founded the DuSableMuseum of African American History inChicago, Illinois.

Charles H. Wright Museum of AfricanAmerican HistoryDaimler Chrysler Hall and A T & T

GallerySoul Sanctuary: Images of theAfrican American WorshipExperienceOn view through April 6, 2008

Soul Sanctuaryis an exhibition thatcaptures the essence and rhythms of theblack church. Over the course of ten years,photographer Jason Miccolo Johnson traversedthe country, visiting large mega-churches,and small store-front churches. During thattime he took more than 15,000 black andwhite images of which 75 are included in theexhibition.



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Durham

Nasher Museum of Art at DukeUniversityBarkley L. Hendricks: Birth of CoolOn view through July 13, 2008

The Nasher Museum presents the first careerretrospective of the renowned American artistBarkley L. Hendricks. Born in 1945,Hendricks's unique work resides at the nexusof American realism and post-modernism, aspace somewhere between portraitists ChuckClose and Alex Katz and pioneering blackconceptualists David Hammons and AdrianPiper. He is best known for his stunning, life-sized portraits of people of color from the

2001 Campus DriveDurham, North Carolina 27705

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urban northeast.

Cool, empowering and sometimesconfrontational, Hendricks's artistic privilegingof a culturally complex black body has pavedthe way for today's younger generation ofartists. This unprecedented exhibition of

Hendricks's paintings will include work from1964 to the present.

A catalogue will accompany this exhibition.

Fort Worth

Modern Art Museum of Forth WorthMartin PuryearOn view through May 18, 2008

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

presents a major exhibition of the sculpture ofthe acclaimed American artist Martin Puryear(b.1941) organized by The Museum of ModernArt, New York. The retrospective featuresapproximately forty-five sculptures, followingthe development of Puryear's artistic careerover the last thirty years. Puryear's works,often deceptively simple, can be associatedwith the sentiments of his Minimalistcontemporaries, but his supremely quiet,poignant forms continually defy furthercategorization and reflect his own uniquestyle. These often monumental sculptures aredistinctly sophisticated, especially in regard to

the artists skills as a woodworker.

3200 Darnell StreetFort Worth, Texas 76107

817/ 738-9215www.mamfw.org

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Fredonia

SUNY FredoniaRecovered Views: African

American Portraits, 1912-1925March 25 April 30, 2008

Forty stunning photographic portraits will bepresented in this exhibition that documentearly twentieth-century life in a vibrant blackMidwestern community, a society that hasrarely been depicted in any medium.

280 Central AvenueFredonia, New York 14063

716/ 673-3111

Hampton

Hampton University MuseumNew Power Generation 2008: A

Huntington BuildingHampton, Virginia 23668

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National Juried ExhibitionOn view through July 16, 2008

New Power Generation 2008, organizedby the Hampton University Museum, is anational competition for contemporary art by

people of African descent. It is an opportunityfor the museum to enhance its long-heldreputation as a documenter of movements inthe visual arts by focusing its attention onemerging and working artists who arecreating new forms and charting newdirections.

Napoleon Jones-Henderson is the juror for thisyear's competition. Exhibiting extensively inthe United Sates and internationally,Henderson is a member of AfriCobra (AfricanCommune of Bad Relevant Artists) since1969. He is currently executive director of theResearch Institute of African and African

Diaspora Arts, Inc., in Roxbury,Massachusetts, and an associate professor ofart at Benedict College, Columbia, SouthCarolina.

757/727-5308www.hamptonu.edu/museum

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Hartford

The Amistad Center for Art and Cultureat the Wadsworth Atheneum Museumof Art

Martin Luther King, Jr.: Life, Timesand LegacyOn view through April 27, 2008

This year (2008) marks the 40th anniversaryof Martin Luther King, Jr.s assassination. Thisexhibition reflects on Dr. Kings quest forfreedom and equality, and asks if what hecalled a sense of brotherhood among nationsexists today. Martin Luther King, Jr.displays imagery from the civil rights era andincludes work by contemporary artists whoexamine themes of race and injustice inAmerica.



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Houston

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Contemporary Arts Museum HoustonPerspectives 160: Dawoud BeyMarch 14 - May 11, 2008

Since 1992 Chicago-based photographer

Dawoud Bey has been working exclusively onlarge-scale portraits of American teenagers.These photographs reveal the individualcharacter of members of this age group. In hisrecent work Bey, made in high schools aroundthe country, Bey has included texts that thesubjects have written about themselves. ForBey, the creation and presentation of theseportraits and texts allows for a more complexand nuanced representation than thephotographic portrait alone. Perspectives160: Dawoud Beymarks the artists debut atthe Contemporary Arts Museum Houston,where Bey will collaborate with the MuseumsTeen Council.

Perspectives 160: Dawoud Beyaccompanied by a Perspectives-formatcatalogue.

5216 Montrose BoulevardHouston, Texas 77006-6598


Jackson

The Mississippi Museum of ArtJacob Lawrences MigrationSeries: Selections from ThePhillips Collection

On view through April 6, 2008This exhibition features a small selection ofpaintings from Lawrences importantMigration Series (begun in 1940), whichdepicts the migration of African Americansfrom the rural South to the urban North duringand after World War I. The Great Migrationwas the largest movement of black peoplesince slavery removed Africans to theAmericas. An illustrated gallery guideaccompanies the exhibition.



Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo Institute of ArtsJacob LawrenceOn view through April 20, 2008

A collection of works from one of the mostinfluential artists to emerge from the HarlemRenaissance era. Nearly 100 lively colorfulprints including 36 individual pieces plus



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the QuiltOn view through March 16, 2008

Gees Bend: The Architecture of theQuiltexamines the resurgence of interest inquilting in the community of Gees Bend,

Alabama, and documents the development ofkey traditional quilt patternshousetop,court-house steps, flying geese, and stripquiltingthrough the presentation ofoutstanding examples created from the 1930sinto the 21st century.


Memphis

Stax Museum of American Soul MusicOTIS REDDING FROM MACON TO

MEMPHIS: An Exhibit from thePrivate Collection of ZelmaReddingOn view through April 30, 2008


Stax Music AcademyThe Soulsville Charter School

926 East McLenmore AvenueMemphis, Tennessee 38106




For this exhibit, the organizers dispersed agroup of photographers around the country tocapture images of these living recordinglegends as a way of showing that, while thepast is important, it is also imperative toillustrate that the present and future are partof a more all-encompassing legacy that

continues to make history today. From busyrecording studios and still-enthralling liveperformances, to bucolic farm life and sharingtime with friends and family, the images inSTAX HERE AND NOWare meant to conveythe idea of lives lived in the moment, energystill abounding, and the unique personalitiesbehind the famed personas. The exhibitincludes images of Isaac Hayes, Al Bell,William Bell, Larry Dodson, and JamesAlexander of the Bar-Kays, Jean Knight,




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Booker T. Jones, Eddie Floyd, Carla Thomas,and many others.

Milwaukee

Walkers Point Center for the ArtsThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly:Relationships and LoveOn view through March 1, 2008

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly:Relationships and Love is an invitationaland juried art exhibition organized by African-American Artists Beginning to EducateAmericans About African American Art (ABEA)in collaboration with Walkers Point Center forthe Arts (WPCA).



Nashville

Frist Center for the Visual ArtsAaron Douglas: African AmericanModernistOn view through April 13, 2008

Aaron Douglas: African AmericanModernistpresents the first nationallytouring retrospective of the work of AaronDouglas (1899-1979), one of the foremostvisual artists from the Harlem Renaissance.

This exhibition brings together rarely seenworks by the artist with approximately 40paintings and 30 works on paper, including afew by his contemporaries. Douglas combinedangular cubist rhythms and a seductive ArtDeco dynamism with traditional AfricanAmerican imagery to develop a radically newvisual vocabulary. His forceful ideas anddistinctive artistic forms made a lastingimpact on American modernism.




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New Britain



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African American ArtistOn view through March 16, 2008

Charles Ethan Porter (c. 1847-1923) beganpainting in the aftermath of the Civil War andworked well into the twentieth century,creating masterpieces of the American still-

life tradition. He was also celebrated in hisday as a skillful colorist. The World ofCharles Ethan Porterwill feature dozens ofPorters still lifes, landscapes and portraits,and introduce audiences to this shadowypainter who deftly combined the Americanluminist tradition with that of the FrenchBarbizon School. The exhibition was organizedby the New Britain Museum of American Art inConnecticut and accompanied by a newscholarly publication.

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New York

DC Moore GalleryJacob Lawrence, Moving Forward:Paintings 1936-1999On view through March 22, 2008

724 Fifth Avenue at 57th StreetNew York, New York 10019


The Studio Museum in HarlemKori Newkirk: 1997 - 2007

On view through March 9, 2008Kori Newkirk (b. 1970) is a celebratedmultidisciplinary artist whose conceptualpractice is based on transforming modestmaterials into loaded signifiers that que

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