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SAAM educator Phoebe Hillemann reflects on creating resources to spark curiosity for learners of all ages who view William H. Johnson’s

ALBANY, Ga. — A Moultrie native will be honored Saturday for his role as the former director of the Albany Civil Rights Institute.

A survey of Jones’s work, which includes sculpture, painting, and audio, is on view now at the Guggenheim.

After the tumult and triumphs of 2020, here are the achievements that shaped the first year following the country’s racial reckoning.

IN A SMALL GALLERY on the second floor of Virginia’s Hampton University Museum hangs Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Banjo Lesson. A young boy sits in the lap of his grandfather, learning to play the titular instrument, the pair surrounded by the evidence of life lived: clothes hung in the background, a loaf of bread and a white pitcher on a table, cooking pots at their feet. Color and shadow blend exquisitely to create a subtle glow that is cast onto the pair together at the fireside.Tanner is wi...

The Chrysler Museum of Art, in partnership with the Hampton University Museum, has received a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The highly competitive grant will fund Diversifying the Field of Curation and Conservation, a three-year pilot fellowship program for two aspiring museum professionals who have completed master’s degrees. The program will also include a Hampton University undergraduate student receiving a paid summer internship at the Chrysler.

Bridget Cooks, author of "Exhibiting Blackness," steaks with Folasade Ologundudu about the changing field of Black art history.

Bridget R. Cooks. (Photo by Evelina Pentchev.) This article is part of a series of conversations with scholars engaged with Black art for Black History Month. See also Folasade Ologundudu’s interviews with Richard J. Powell, Darby English, and Sarah Lewis. *** In her much-discussed 2011 book, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, Cooks looked at the ways that museums have perpetuated racial inequity through the presentation and curation of African American an...