Photos courtesy of the Crocker Art Museum
By collaborating with community partners, as well as local and regional BIPOC artists, the Crocker Art Museum’s Black History Month Family Festival created an atmosphere of joy and connection for its visitors, surrounding the Art Bridges Collection loans by Elizabeth Catlett, David Clyde Driskell, and Jack Whitten.
Guest speakers and attendees at the lecture “For Which It Stands: Brick by Brick: Black Women Breaking New Ground”, hosted at the Avery Research Center at College of Charleston, July 2022. Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art (Charlston, NC). Programming inspired by the exhibition Fights for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice. The exhibition is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The Rollins Museum of Art connected with third- through fifth-grade students from a local elementary school by hosting an on-site poetry and collage project that encouraged them to reflect on the idea of place.
The Whatcom Museum developed a printed passport-type brochure for its multidisciplinary programming series, which was designed to engage college students with the natural world beyond the exhibition “Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art.”
Alongside the presentation of Rachel Rose’s “Lake Valley,” the Springfield Museum of Art partnered with community-based mental health care organizations to host a series of guided conversation hours geared toward older adults in the community.
The Gibbes Museum of Art piloted free concerts in partnership with local organizations—in addition to its standard ticketed concert—to illustrate for a wider audience the connections between music and oral histories in the “Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice” exhibition.
The Ulrich Museum of Art hosted a two-day cultural festival that celebrated contemporary Native American arts, featured a mix of live performances and artmaking workshops, and gave visitors a greater understanding of modern and contemporary Native American artists—including T.C. Cannon and Jeffery Gibson—through the expertise of working Native artists and educators in the community.
The Gund Gallery invited five arts professionals from different sectors of the field to speak with university students about how they built their careers, answering questions and providing advice.
The Delaware Art Museum celebrated local Indigenous communities and traditions through an intertribal, multigenerational powwow and storytelling event that included an arts market of Indigenous makers.
The Academy Art Museum organized a collaborative concert in which musicians and audience members co-created music inspired by Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s painting “I Refuse to Be Invisible.”
The Yellowstone Art Museum collaborated with Montana State University to write and produce a film that accompanied the display of Arshile Gorky’s “Child’s Companions.”
The Old Jail Art Center highlighted the work of Norman Lewis, particularly “Untitled (Subway Station),” by providing visitors with individualized in-gallery pamphlets and wall texts in both English and Spanish.
