CURRENT EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS

AFRICAN AMERICAN MILITARY PORTRAITS FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: Selected Images from the Library of Congress Collections
Through May 26, 2013
Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War (1861-1865), this exhibit features remarkable photographic portraits of African American soldiers and sailors who took part in this epic chapter of our nation’s history. Reproduced in large format from the original antique photographs,... more

The Legacy of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance
Company: More Than a Business
Through June 23, 2013
On July 23, 1925 under the leadership of William Nickerson, Jr., Norman O. Houston and George Beavers, Jr., Golden State Guarantee Fund Insurance Company began in a one room office at 1412 Central Avenue. Within three months they had outgrown that space and moved to a storeroom at 3512 Central Avenue. Within three years the company had over... more

Kimpa Vita and the Concert of Kongo, 2012

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
Through June 16, 2013
Go Tell It on the Mountain, presents the works of artists who examine how Christianity has fostered political action and civic engagement. The curatorial vision for this exhibition is inspired by the experiences of the characters in James Baldwin’s 1953 novel of the same name which incorporates the underlying tensions of religious control, faith, family, hope and human hypocrisy. Artists included in the exhibition are...more

AFRODESCENDIENTES: Photographer Roberto Chile in Guanabacoa, Cuba
Through October 13, 2013
The overwhelming majority of African slaves in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade went to South America and the Caribbean. Afrodescendientes, an exhibition originally mounted in Spain’s Casa de America by celebrated Cuban photographer and documentarian Roberto Chile and curator Juan Carlos Moya, explores the African presence in ...more

Funeral - image from Manuel Mendive exhibition

"Things that Cannot Be Seen Any Other Way:
The Art of Manuel Mendive”
Through October 20, 2013
"Things that Cannot Be Seen Any Other Way: The Art of Manuel Mendive” is a multi-faceted effort that explores Mendive’s visual and performance work. This exhibition is a newly-produced, career-spanning overview, while emphasizing the artist’s mature work. Whereas cubism and surrealism had been common among his predecessors, Mendive instead...more

Exhibition Events

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