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Alethea Pace bends downwards, with both arms outstretched against a cloudy, blue sky
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Alethea Pace: between wave and water | Civic Practice Partnership 2023–2025
During her CPP artist residency, Alethea Pace collaborated alongside her community to reclaim the history of the Enslaved African Burial Ground in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx.
March 27
A smiling woman, her face turned downward towards an open book.
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The Free Black Women’s Library: Pretty Little Brick | Civic Practice Partnership 2023–2025
During her CPP residency, artist OlaRonke Akinmowo challenged herself to create a writers collective as an expansion of the mission of The Free Black Women’s Library.
March 12
A Conversation with Betsabeé Romero
By carving symbolic designs into recycled tires, Betsabeé Romero creates artworks that reference ancient motifs and evoke reflections on movement.
Laura Filloy Nadal
November 21, 2024
A mixed-media collage decorated with two black-and-white photos, a childlike drawing, and an image of the Virgin Mary and Jesus surrounding a drawing of a flower and poem about the artist's mother.
Juan Sánchez on the Guariquen Portfolio
Learn more about the artist’s singular blending of media, Puerto Rican and Nuyorican culture, activism, issues of colonialism, and personal history in his remarkable prints.
Deborah Cullen-Morales
September 27, 2024
A green landscape with an irregularly shaped body of water in the center. Trees with sloping branches and leaves line the background.
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An Evening with Kim Hong Joo
Join us to celebrate the exhibition Lineages: Korean Art at The Met.
August 26, 2024
Collage of three images black and white one of a outline of a black face, the third a black background with white text, and the last a painting depictions of a party.
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The Leonard A. Lauder Distinguished Scholar Lecture—Blackbeats: Cubism Reimagined
Join scholar Richard J. Powell as he rethinks the art of Cubism through the historical and aesthetic lens of African American art. Artists such as Dudley Murphy, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Mickalene Thomas, and Nina Chanel Abney use angular and fractured forms that resonate with the cultural effects of ragtime, jazz, hip-hop, and other Black performing arts traditions.
Richard J. Powell
July 10, 2024
Mildred Beltré and Oasa DuVerney smile during their interview about Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine's family portraits project.
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Family Portraits with Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine | Civic Practice Partnership 2023–2025
Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, co-founded by Mildred Beltré and Oasa DuVerney, explores art-making as a community-building tool.
Brooklyn Hi-Art Machine
June 13, 2024
Two photo side by side, the left: sculpture of a giant spider with the city skyline blue, in the background. The image on the right is the artist, standing in between a sculpture.
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Meet the Artist—Petrit Halilaj: The Roof Garden Commission, Abetare
Go behind the scenes with artist Petrit Halilaj, who discusses with curator Iria Candela the inspiration and making of his 2024 Roof Garden Commission: Abetare.
May 7, 2024
At left, a smiling woman in a yellow jacket reaches out with both hands towards a wooden bookshelf at right to retrieve a book. The shelves hold books both horizontally and vertically.
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The Free Black Women’s Library | Civic Practice Partnership 2023–2025
“Part of what inspired the project was wanting to create something that really centered the brilliance and creativity of Black women writers and the transformative possibilities that come with reading.”
OlaRonke Akinmowo
April 25, 2024
Printed graphic image of a white woman seductively holding a poppy flower. The Woman and the peony are an orange color and the background of the image is black and the woman's dress and hat are created just using orange outlines.
By Women, for Women: American Art Posters of the 1890s
How did women emerge as active creators of art and visual culture in the nineteenth century?
Shannon Vittoria
April 19, 2024