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The National Museum of African Art is the Smithsonian Institution's African art museum, located on the National Mall of the United States capital. Its collections include 9,000 works of traditional and contemporary African art from both Sub-Saharan and North Africa, 300,000 photographs, and 50,000 library volumes. It was the first institution ...
Obadina (and several of his former Columbus East High School classmates, including Detroit's George N'Namdi) was an early pioneer in the world of independent black art. He purchased the house that would become the gallery from the Columbus, Ohio land bank for only $200, in 1976. Over the next thirteen years, he laboriously restored it, adding ...
The exhibition was hailed by critics as a landmark show of diasporic African art. [4] [5] [6] Following the original 2018 exhibition, MASP partnered with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to bring a version of the exhibition to several museums in the United States from 2021 to 2024. [2] [3]
To honor the contributions Africans have made to central Ohio, city leaders hosted Africa Day with performances, art and panel discussion. Columbus highlights unity, culture and continued ...
Columbus Day is a national holiday in many countries of the Americas and elsewhere, and a federal holiday in the United States, which officially celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas.
The Columbus African Festival returns this weekend with a business forum on Friday and two days of celebration on Saturday and Sunday.
The Africa Center, formerly known as the Museum for African Art and before that as the Center for African Art, is a museum located at Fifth Avenue and 110th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile.
Tameka Ellington is the guest curator of "RETOLD: African American Art and Folklore" at the Akron Art Museum. The exhibit features 74 works by 45 African American artists from across the country.