In 2018, the Delaware Art Museum commissioned artist Hank Willis Thomas to respond to the powerful and community-changing public response that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. Combining historic newspaper photographs with the historic pamphlet Black Survival Guide, or How to Live Through a Police Riot, Thomas created a powerfully unique physical and visual viewing experience. The resulting work of art sheds light on the past in the context of today.
Delaware Art Museum
60 running linear feet/1,600 square feet, Darkened gallery space, Dedicated guard
Sept 2021 through 2025, 12 - 18 week loan
Duluth, Minnesota, home to , is dominantly white with BlPOC making up only 2.3% of the population.
The Tweed Museum staff partnered with Art Bridges to bring the exhibition, Black Survival Guide, or How to Live Through a Police Riot, to their institution and pair it with programming initiatives that, for the first time in the institution’s history, would actively seek to engage Black community members.
According to museum staff, “In Duluth, there is no money for many areas in the cultural sector and very little has been done to promote Black artists.”
A local artist leads area high school students in a speed painting demonstration set to music at The Tweed Museum of Art.