black identity

Jacob Lawrence, Harriet Tubman Series (Panel #4), 1940. Tempera on hardboard, unknown dimensions, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia.
A Look into the Harlem Renaissance

The …

The backmost section of Geer cemetery is hedged in by a parking lot for a telephone company. Fallen trees are a common disruption in this portion of the cemetery and pose threats to the preservation of headstones.
The Archaeology of Death at a Southern Black Cemetery
Durham, North Carolina's Geer Cemetery is sparking new conversations about what it means to care for a cemetery and how American history is being told
Installation photograph, Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 7, 2021–April 17, 2022.
Bisa Butler on “Black American Portraits” & Her Boseman Tribute
Primarily drawn from the LACMA's collection, the exhibition brings together around 140 works spanning roughly 200 years. Subjects include a wide range—from iconic change-makers to ordinary people…
Cover of IT (International Times) magazine, March 9–23, 1972; Cover of Thing: She Knows Who She Is magazine, Spring 1991 (no. 4); Cover of The Face magazine, March 1985 (no. 59).
Subscribe: Artists and Alternative Magazines, 1970-1995
Pairing the high production standards of leading publications such as Vogue and Life with the element of collage in zines and the text/image provocations of underground newspapers, alternative…
Tyler Mitchell, Chad and Dad, 2021.
Tyler Mitchell at the Gordon Parks Foundation Gallery
The Gordon Parks Foundation is pleased to present An Imaginative Arrangement of the Things Before Me, an exhibition of new works by artist Tyler Mitchell, a 2020 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellow,…
Production photo from on location filming in Norway for In Search of the Miraculous, 2020. 
Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery: The Prelude
This winter, in his first collaboration with a major UK gallery, American artist Kehinde Wiley will explore the artistic conventions and canons of the Western landscape tradition—mountainous, coastal…
figure in front of music posters
Artist Demonstration: Rachelle Baker

Learn about the art and artistic process of Rachelle Baker, a multi-disciplinary artist from Detroit, Michigan.

This book cover sports a pink background, a black and white piece of artwork, and the title in thin, black font
Kenturah Davis: Everything That Cannot Be Known
SCAD University Press announces the release of Kenturah Davis: Everything that Cannot Be Known. Commemorating Davis’ solo exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art in 2020, the catalog—the artist’s debut…