Kalamazoo Arts Collaborative

Black Refractions is traveling to Smith College, Frye Art Museum, and Utah Museum of Fine Arts. View the schedule here.

Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem

Reflecting nearly 100 years of art history in America, the exhibition reflects the breadth of The Studio Museum’s 50 years of supporting and incubating artists of African descent. The exhibition will fill all four of the main floor KIA galleries.
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Where We Stand: Black Artists in Southwest Michigan

The exhibition features ten Michigan artists working in sculpture, photography, painting, ceramics, and printmaking. They are emerging artists and veterans in their field who address issues as diverse as the environment, mass incarceration, the criminal justice system, and concepts of beauty.
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Resilience: African American Artists As Agents of Change

The exhibition features more than 60 paintings, photographs, works on paper, and sculpture from our collection, and explores the museum’s holdings by African American artists from 1870 to the present, reflecting their vital contributions to the story of American art and history.
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Local Artists

Learn about the artists of the Where We Stand: Black Artists in Southwest Michigan exhibition.

Community Events

View the full calendar of community events surrounding the Black Refractions exhibition.

Community Partners

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sustainableuofu avatarsustainableuofu@sustainableuofu·
27 Feb 1365716045927964676

Featuring one hundred works by nearly eighty artists from the 1920s to the present, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem surveys nearly a century of creative achievements by artists of African descent. This la...
#UniversityofUtah #BlackRefractions #UMFA

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6 Feb 1358143088716206081

Got to see this wonderful exhibition today! #umfa #utahmuseumoffinearts #blackrefractions #studioharlemmuseum #arthistory #art #powerfulart

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21 Apr 2020 1252707447334146048

In today's #NextBestThing, scholar Kymberly S. Newberry discusses the art of Jacob Lawrence, which was on view at the @smithartmuseum's #BlackRefractions exhibit of art from the @studiomuseum (and featured in our current issue): https://t.co/IgmWwhLOIw

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smithartmuseum avatarSmith College Museum of Art@smithartmuseum·
30 Mar 2020 1244727706551533570

Learn more about artist Tom Lloyd and the current exhibition, “Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem.” https://t.co/HYUeF6xpuf

#MuseumFromHome #SCMAFromHome #BlackRefractions @amfedarts #TomLloyd

Art: Tom Lloyd, b. 1920–1996.“ Moussakoo,” c. 1968.

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24 Mar 2020 1242433603587497984

Flashback to #BlackRefractions: Highlights From the @StudioMuseum in Harlem!

Black Refractions surveys close to a century of creative achievements by artists of African descent and is the 1st traveling exhibition in 25 years to reveal the breadth of this permanent collection.

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