DETROIT – One of the oldest and most complete collections of African American art in the nation just got a major upgrade - and you can see it now at Detroit’s world-class art museum. The Center for ...

Over two decades, Valerie Mercer has built a collection that makes the case that a complete history of American art must include African American artists. Courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts ...

There are countless examples of the ways that Black creativity in America has literally changed the world — from jazz, rock, and hip-hop, to soul food, to literature, to the power of a picture. The ...

Curated by Fisk University’s Jamaal Sheats, "Topography" at Tinney Contemporary offers an incisive and thoughtful exhibition of contemporary African-American art. The succinct show contains seven ...

The James E. Lewis Museum of Art (JELMA) at Morgan State University has opened a landmark exhibition titled, “Keeping the Culture: The Last Twenty-Five Years,” running from Sept. 29 to Dec. 13, 2024.

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) will relocate and reopen its African American art galleries in October 2025. The new galleries will be centrally located near the Rivera Court, showcasing 50 works ...

Over 20 years ago, Walter Evans and his wife, Linda, were at Telfair Academy for an exhibition of 19th century African American Art from their own collection. At that point, he had been collecting art ...

One of the most important African American art collections lives in a Los Angeles home. How does someone become a fine art collector? Dr. Joy Simmons discovered her love of art when taking a class ...

When the city of Las Vegas announced several years ago plans for an African American museum in the Historic Westside, Gwen Walker cried for three weeks. “When I heard this about the ‘world-class ...