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 Mobile Museum of Art hosted a makers’ market community event over Juneteenth weekend to engage its local community with “3 American Artists.” The exhibition highlighted the range of three renowned African American artists: Mark Bradford, Barkley L. Hendricks, and Glenn Ligon.
While visiting Mennello Museum of American Art’s exhibition “In Conversation: Will Wilson,” local elementary, middle, and high school students learned about the artist's photographic methods through hands-on activities involving cyanotypes and film cameras.
Drawing inspiration from the “Walker Evans: American Photographs” exhibition, the Mattatuck Museum offered a cooking class series led by local chefs who taught participants a recipe that combined Great Depression methods and their own cooking styles.
Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) created resources designed for blind and low-vision visitors to access the “Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice” exhibition. It partnered with NewView Oklahoma, a low-vision advocacy group, to review and promote the exhibition's new accessible materials.
In this multi-session art workshop, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) provided interdisciplinary outdoor courses for adults aged 55+ that combined environmental concepts with various modes of artmaking.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) collaborated with local interdisciplinary performance artist Supercoolwicked to provide a free interpretative performance that successfully engaged local students and Black individuals with art and blended performance and storytelling to explore themes of healing, self-reflection, and ancestral veneration.
The Syracuse University Art Museum engaged audiences with the works of Gordon Parks and explored the artist's connection to jazz music with a concert by the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
The Richard M. Ross Art Museum hosted a series of student-planned "Chill Nights," featuring crafts, screenings, and food to engage historically underserved Ohio Wesleyan University student groups and nurture a sense of belonging inspired by Fritz Scholder’s "Hollywood Indian."
The Mint Museum’s two-day “Amazing Grace” community celebration featured art, music, and dialogue inspired by Eldzier Cortor’s "Southern Souvenir No. II," using gallery tours, performances, and hands-on activities to engage the public in critical conversations about history, resilience, and healing.
Led by artist vanessa german, this hands-on workshop at the El Paso Museum of Art invited participants to create tactile assemblages and mixed-media sculptures inspired by her power figures, using found materials to explore themes of spirituality, healing, and social transformation through art.
California State University Northridge (CSUN) Art Galleries hosted five printmaking workshops led by Kalli Arte Collective, which invited participants to create remembrance portraits and contribute to a community altar that was inspired by the themes of the "Before You Now" exhibition.
The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) partnered with artist Mandy Cano Villalobos and Deos Contemporary Ballet to create an interdisciplinary, interactive program that invited middle and high school students to engage in exhibition tours, ballet performances with movement activities, and hands-on artmaking projects.