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.
Tying programming to Philip Guston’s “Cigar,” the Rollins Museum of Art hosted a series of block printmaking workshops in neighborhood libraries to introduce local youth to artists and the shared history of social justice.
Local high school students designed original garments for a fashion show inspired by the animals depicted in “Andy Warhol: Endangered Species.” Then, they showcased their creations in a public fashion show at Peoria Riverfront Museum.
Inspired by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s dinner parties, the Hudson River Museum invited chefs from local Mexican restaurants to prepare dishes from a cookbook that was co-published by Rivera’s daughter and bring them to the museum for visitors to taste as part of a larger community festival.
To activate the “Un/Natural Selections” exhibition, the Gibbes Museum of Art partnered with community wildlife and conservation organizations in presenting artmaking activities, yoga classes, and birding and garden demonstrations for intergenerational audiences.
For the first time, the Gadsden Arts Center & Museum collaborated with local schools to create a Teen Art Council of students who worked with museum staff to create youth-centered programming around Stuart Davis’ “Untitled (Black and White Variation on “Pochade”),” which was featured in the exhibition “Hofmann to Warhol.”
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art partnered with Repair the World to host a dinner where attendees explored Sherrie Levine’s “After Russell Lee: 1-60" and its relation to agriculture, food insecurity, and gentrification.
The Wright Museum of Art collaborated with local schools and student organizations to form an iterative educational program that focused on the ways that art can serve as a vehicle for voice.
The Jewish Museum hosted its first DeafBlind tour, featuring Philip Guston’s Cigar and using custom Swell Form tactile diagrams and touch objects.
Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (GOCA) facilitated a portrait workshop for children and families. Inspired by Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled” (L.A.), participants used cookies and candies to create a portrait of a loved one.
Visitors to the Home, Love, and Loss exhibition were asked to respond to prompts based on four key categories—Family, Home, Deprivation, and Honoring—through drawing, writing, and self-reflection.
Krasl Art Center created a digital learning resource for “And You, Seas” by Richard Hunt. The sculpture is featured in “Rethinking Monuments: American Sculpture in Time, 1850-2000,” an exhibition that makes interdisciplinary connections between the artwork and literature, local history, fabrication, and physics.
