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VISUAL ARTS
Dive Deeper with Pat Cruz and Michael Sawyer
During the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and early 70s, many artists of color responded to the racial and economic oppression, the assassinations, the discrimination, and the continuing affront to their humanity with art works — in music, dance, poetry, theater, and visual arts — that affirmed their humanity. Some of these artists joined groups while others made work alone in their studios that were identity-affirming and insistent in their call for social justice. Some of these works were considered a part of a Black Nationalist aesthetic.
This special Black Arts Movement: Examined presentation on the visual arts features scholar and Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, Michael Sawyer, in a free Zoom event and conversation with Harlem Stage Artistic Director & CEO Pat Cruz that will examine the impact and legacy of the visual arts during this period and the resonant artistic responses to the Black Power and Black Lives Matter movements.
Black Arts Movement: Examined is supported by the Mellon Foundation.
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