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A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence

Institution
Block Museum of Art / Northwestern University
Grant Cycle
Spring 2021
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support
Website
www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/exhibitions/2022/a-site-of-struggle ↗
Darryl Cowherd, Stop White Police from Killing Us – St. Louis, MO, c. 1966-67. Gelatin Silver Print, 15 x 19 in. © Darryl Cowherd image courtesy of the artist and the Museum of Contemporary Photography
Elizabeth Catlett, Civil Rights Congress, 1949. Linocut on cream wove paper, 18 x 12 3/4 inches. © 2021 Catlett Mora Family Trust/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago
Elizabeth Catlett, Target Practice, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. Purchased by the Amistad Research Center. Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Emory Douglas, November 16, 1972, 1972. © 2021 Emory Douglas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Melvin Edwards, Selections from Lynch Fragments Ida W.B., 1990. Welded Steel, 13 x 14 x 10 in. © 2021 Melvin Edwards/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Gallery.
Dox Thrash, After the Lynching, late 1930s. Carborundum mezzotint 5 15/16 × 8 15/16 in. Courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Carl and Karen Pope, Palimpsest, 1998-99. Video Still. Courtesy of the artist.

Originating at Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.

Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Announces Spring 2021 Grantees

29 June 2021

Curatorial Research Fellowships

Janet Dees
Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

1976

Warhol acquires the first of several compact 35 mm cameras, and over the next 11 years shot approximately 130,000 black-and-white images, claiming that “having a few rolls of film to develop gives me a good reason to get up in the morning.”

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