The North American Acquisitions Committee research trip explored the American South with visits throughout Atlanta, Montgomery, Birmingham and surrounding areas, such as the Gee’s Bend Quilt Community in Boykin, Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative Museum and Memorial in Montgomery, Black American Portraits touring exhibition at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, the new UTA Artists Space in Atlanta, studio visits with Michi Meko, Hasani Salehe, William Downs, and Dawn Williams Boyd; collection visits, and Selma landmarks such as the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The final day the Committee visited Joe Minter’s African Village with special guest Lonnie Holley.
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NORTH AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE RESEARCH TRIP TO AMERICAN SOUTH
LATIN AMERICAN NEWS
The Tate Americas Foundation recently acquired Johanna Calle Perspectivas 2006-8 (pictured above) and three works by Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Blue Abstraction 2012, Life in His Mouth, Death Cradles Her Arm 2016, and Print of Sleep 2016.
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at Tate Modern
Well-deserved congratulations to Tate curators Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley for the five star reviews of Soul of a Nation that is on display at Tate Modern until October 22. This landmark exhibition is a rare opportunity to see era-defining artworks that changed the face of art in America. The show opens in 1963 at the height of the Civil Rights movement and its dreams of integration. In its wake emerged more militant calls for Black Power: a rallying cry for African American pride, autonomy and solidarity, drawing inspiration from newly independent African nations. The exhibition is supported by the Tate Americas Foundation thanks to generous grants from the Ford Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.
