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Today is 05/18/2013

03/01/06 - 08/31/06 www.cau.edu/art_gallery/FreddieStyles.pdf
Freddie Styles: Old, New, Borrowed, Blue
Old, New, Borrowed, Blue evokes the union of Freddie Styles with his native Georgia. Wide range of visually encodes visions of earthscapes and his encounters with nature and people he knew.
Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries
Atlanta Georgia United States

03/25/2006 - 06/18/2006 www.high.org/experience/geesbend/
The Quilts of Gees Bend
See the quilts The New York Times called "some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced." The Quilts of Gee's Bend celebrates the artistic legacy of quilters in the isolated historically black community of Gee's Bend, Alabama. More than sixty quilts from the 1930s to 2000 represent four generations of artists who took fabrics from their everyday lives and fashioned them into compositions that more closely resemble modernist abstract paintings than familiar quilt patterns.
High Museum
Atlanta Georgia

03/10/2006 - 05/28/2006 www.icp.org/
Snap Judgments: New Positions In African Contemporary Photography
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography forces a recognition of the contradictory and varied forms of photographic practice that are now arising acrossSnap Judgments highlights a shift away from the commercial studio portraiture that predominated in Africa in previous decades, revealing a new and surprising emphasis on conceptual art, documentary, and fashion photography. Most of the works shown here were produced since 2000. Many were made within the past year, and several were commissioned specifically for the exhibition. Africa.
Internarional Center for Photography
New York New York

05/11/2006 - 07/15/2006 www.caamuseum.org/fe.htm
Something To Look Forward To
Something to Look Forward To pays homage to the exceptional talent, unique vision, and courageous persistence of particular mature artists who have created dynamic abstract images and objects during extended and successful careers. Twenty-two celebrated African American artists over the age of sixty were each invited to exhibit two works, created six to ten years apart. The submissions cover several forms of abstract art, including mixed media, painting, sculpture and furniture. The exhibition opened at Franklin & Marshall College, March 2004 in the Dana and Rothman Galleries of the colleges Phillips Museum of Art. This visually stunning, groundbreaking show is curated by Bill Hutson, the colleges Jennie Brown and Betsy Hess Cook Distinguished Artist-in-Residence. The exhibit features works by Betty Blayton, Frank Bowling, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Edward Clark, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Gerald Jackson, Lawrence Compton Kolawole, Alvin Loving, Richard Mayhew, Sam Middleton, Mary Lovelace ONeal, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Helen and Frank Wimberley.
California African American Museum
Los Angeles California

04/06/2006 - 08/16/2006 www.caamuseum.org/ce.htm
The National Pastime In Black and White, The Negro Baseball Leagues
The Negro Baseball Leagues, 18671955, tells the fascinating story of the Negro leagues during segregation. The exhibitions 60 photographs and selection of rare artifacts acquaint visitors with great athletes who were good enough but were prevented from playing in the major leagues. These athletes didnt wait for the door to organized baseball to open; they formed their own teams and leagues and played the game with as much enthusiasm as their white counterparts.
California African American Museum
Los Angeles California

01/27/2006 - 07/29/2006 www.hamptonu.edu/museum
The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: Selections from the Hampton University Collection
"Pulled from the collection of the Hampton University Museum, this exhibition will feature works on paper and sculpture by world renowned artist Elizabeth Catlett. Artist, educator, social and political activist the works represented in this exhibition show the importance of Catlett as a major contemporary international artist."
Hampton University Museum
Hampton Virginia

04/30/2004 - 09/24/2004 www.pmcaonline.org
Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar
"The exhibition will feature thirty-six objects, including mixed media sculptures, assemblages, collages and a collaborative installation created by tbe Saars. Twelve key works by each artist, representing the full chronological range and stylistic e'~olution of their oeuvre, v4/I be arranged according to overlapping themes thet underline the artists' family ties, multi-racial heritage and strong affinities to nature and African cultures. The works demonstrate a desire to reclaim the visual representation of African American women by exploring subjects including slavery, stereotypes of domestic labor and contentious historical images of the female body."
Pasadena Museum of California Art
Pasadena California

03/10/2006 - 08/13/2006 brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/symphonic_poem/
Syphonic Poem: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
This extraordinary exhibition of more than 100 mixed media works by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson explores the artist's memory of her Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood, while celebrating her African American heritage and reconstructing the complex histories of vanished communities. Symphonic Poem is a project representing more than 50 years of research, travel, and artistic virtuosity and inventiveness in multiple media. The exhibition presents a diverse body of work that ranges from drawings and woodcuts to complex sculptures made from natural and synthetic materials, such as twigs, carved leather, music boxes, and "hogmawg," her own material composed of mud, grease, dyes, and glue.
Brooklyn Museum
New York New York