THE MENNELLO MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

The Mennello Museum is one of a handful of venues presenting this exclusive selection of paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs by 43 black artists who explored the African American experience from the Harlem Renaissance through the Civil Rights era and the decades beyond, which saw tremendous social and political changes. More than half of the featured works, including paintings by Benny Andrews, Jacob Lawrence and Loïs Mailou Jones, and photographs by Roy DeCarava, Gordon Parks, Roland Freeman and Marilyn Nance, are being exhibited for the first time."African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil rights Era and Beyond" is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with generous support from Alston & Bird, Amherst Holdings, LLC, Diane and Norman Bernstein Foundation, Larry Irving and Leslie Wiley, William R. Kenan, Jr. Endowment Fund, Clarence Otis and Jacqui Bradley, PEPCO, The C.F. Foundation in Atlanta supports the museum’s traveling exhibition program, “Treasures to Go.”