The works on view serve to memorialize the many lives lost, allowing space and resources to mourn those individuals, and to process both the dark histories of the United States as well as the bold acts of resistance. Hopefully the exhibition moves visitors beyond rage or grief or empathy into action.
The new exhibition will explore the various ways American artists have grappled with anti-Black violence spanning a 100+ year period from the anti-lynching campaigns of the 1890s to the founding of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013.