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.
In collaboration with Jeantrix founders Nyce and Homm, the Syracuse University Art Museum hosted a two-part program exploring identity, race, gender, and fashion through Mickalene Thomas’s work. The program featured an interactive art workshop and a Community Day meet-and-greet highlighting the intersection of art and entrepreneurship.
The San Diego Museum of Art engaged cross-cultural audiences with the work of Arshile Gorky through contemporary dance performances.
Engaging with the themes of feminine form, gender, race, and beauty present in Ana Mendieta’s "Esculturas Ruprestres", as part of the "Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz: The Goddess Triptych Reunited" exhibit, the San Antonio Museum of Art collaborated with two community partners to produce a three-part, multidisciplinary, hands-on performance and discussion series.
The Farnsworth Art Museum celebrated Louise Nevelson’s birthday week with community art activities, gallery events, and lasting materials that honored her legacy and connection to her hometown of Rockland, Maine, and its storied lumber trade.
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMoCA) hosted a day-long, immersive educational series of engagement activities exploring themes of memory, centered on Ana Mendieta’s Esculturas Rupestres.
The Scottsdale Museum of Art brought together students and professionals in art, neuroscience, and architecture through workshops that incorporated neuroaesthetics and artmaking into museum programming.
The New Britain Museum of American Art collaborated with a local artist to bring artmaking and wellness practices to a local hospital.
Mattatuck Museum hosted a teen-centered event, Teen Art Extravaganza, featuring interactive art activities led by female artists and a small plate party with women-led culinary businesses, inspired by Judy Chicago’s "Big Blue Pink".
As one of four free programs associated with the Companion Species exhibition, Animals in Art and Stories gave Yellowstone Art Museum’s audiences a chance to pet and draw live animals and learn different ways to depict animals in art from local and exhibiting artists.
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art partnered with community organizations to host a prom-themed dance party featuring local drag queens in live performances, contests, and LGBTQIA+ gallery tours.
