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Learn more about the spotlight series that honors 30 Black marketing creatives.

Ranging from tours of the former residences-turned-museums of icons like Louis Armstrong and Frederick Douglass to a reimagined period room at one of New York City's most celebrated museums, explore our list of 11 exhibits and tours that will allow you to fully immerse yourself in Black history.

The Freeport Art Museum is pleased to present the work of Angie Redmond, a recent Master of Fine Arts graduate from Northern Illinois University. Redmond’s figurative paintings are full of energetic color and brushwork which emphasizes the complexities of human emotions and behavior. Her paintings of friends, family, and strangers focus on the beauty of just being, uncluttered by all the various identities that may be adopted by them or attached to them by others. Addressing social change and justice, she wishes her work to emphasize peace and to speak to all, respecting differences, and hon...

CHICAGO—Art has always been part of Kendall Collins' life. "I've been drawing since even before I can remember," he says. "I still have a bunch of sketchbooks from elementary, middle and high school, so it's been a progression for the majority of my life." The Western Michigan University student has come a long way from sketching on notebook paper, finding his artwork now on display at the largest science center in the Western Hemisphere. Not one but two of Collins' original pieces were selected from entries from across the country for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry's Black Cre...

This year’s Black Creativity is a testament to the artists and program leaders who didn’t give up on shining a spotlight on Black art.