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 Springfield Museums encouraged visitors to enjoy all three of its museums by creating a Typewriter Trail that featured vintage typewriter stations in each building with varied prompts exploring ideas around the use of a typewriter.
The Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University partnered with a student group on campus to bring local artist Uzumaki Cepeda to install her work in conversation with Joe Overstreet’s "Boxes."
The El Paso Museum of Art worked with a web development firm, Hello Amigo, to create a microsite that provides engaging content related to the works of Jeff Koons, Robert Gober, and Richard Prince.
Highlighting themes of solidarity between Black and Latin American communities through social justice history and contemporary fashion, the El Paso Museum of History invited two fashion houses to present a collection that is inspired by the exhibition and celebrates identity.
The Boise Art Museum drew inspiration from the symbolic and interactive nature of Felix Gonzalez-Torres' "'Untitled' (L.A.)" to develop recurring sessions of a healing program for the local community in partnership with mental health professionals.
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.
