Join us on this Select Saturday at the museum to view Noel W Anderson: Black Excellence. Visit the Collections Study Space to view Romare Bearden & Ralph Ellison: From the Archive and to browse our Collections.

Noel W Anderson: Black Excellence

Noel W Anderson’s most comprehensive museum exhibition to date features newly commissioned suspended and stretched Jacquard tapestries and video depicting altered archival and media images centered on Black labor, identity, and performance. Earlier works, including prints and works on paper, along with archival materials, demonstrate the arc of Anderson’s 13-year exploration of themes of excellence, exhaustion and erasure.

Romare Bearden & Ralph Ellison: From the Archive

Telling the story of the UAM’s 1968 exhibition Romare Bearden: Paintings and Projections and its accompanying catalogue essay by Ralph Ellison, Romare Bearden & Ralph Ellison: From the Archive presents archival materials, including correspondence between Bearden, Ellison and UAM founding director, Donald Mochon and Ellison’s original manuscript. This essay soon became an essential work in Ellison’s bibliography, the literature on Bearden and the history of twentieth-century African American culture.

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