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 Katonah Museum of Art offered Thinking Through the Arts, an in-school multidisciplinary program connecting language arts, visual art, creative writing, and movement inspired by Marsden Hartley’s “Give Us This Day.”
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.