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Tsedaye Makonnen’s ethereal sculptures make a bold impression at the National Museum of African Art — but there’s much more than first meets the eye. The D.C.-born Ethiopian American artist ...
The Art Museum of the Americas ... Edwards show, titled Before the Americas, featured artworks by noted African American, Afro-Latino and Caribbean artists and illustrated the influence of ...
Black History Month honors the achievements and struggles of African Americans throughout ... Black Arts Education in Washington, DC, 1900–2000" includes art by Elizabeth Catlett, Alma Thomas ...
For the third time in six years, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art is looking for a new ... for the artistic community of DC—but I am really proud that I tried ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s not just hype. After 100 years of hopes and plans, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture finally opened on the National Mall this ...
Thousands are gathering across DC for a variety of WorldPride events ... to visitors at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art that features the myth of Drexciya over the Atlantic ...
WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...
The museum will occupy the 1906 building that once housed Randall Junior High School, a prominent African American educational ... of their contemporary-art collection, and it’s not yet clear which ...
That was the question that Majic 102.3 FM’s Vic Jagger asked the several hundred attendees in the audience on Saturday at the block party right outside the National Museum of African American Hi ...