In a new partnership with the Rehoboth Beach Film Society and their African American Film Festival, Biggs Curator Ryan Grover, will lead a panel discussion following a screening of "Black is the Color" at the Rehoboth Beach Film Society. The panel will feature three notable Delaware artists: Lori Crawford, Artist and Associate Professor, Mass Communications and Visual and Performing Arts, Delaware State University; Terrance Vann, Artist; and Michael Morris, artist.
In 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York mounted a major exhibit called Harlem On My Mind. There was just one thing wrong: the show had no work by African-American artists.
The Harlem On My Mind fiasco is emblematic of the barriers black artists have faced when it comes to having their work exhibited and collected. Both comprehensive and lively, Black Is The Color is a much-needed survey of great work by artists whose contributions were neglected by the mainstream art world for far too long. "Informative... One leaves the documentary with renewed awareness that recent battles over inclusion, representation, and appropriation are the results of struggles that have been going on for decades,” writes Tanner Tafelski of Hyperallergic.com[2017, US, Runtime: 52 minutes, Rated: Not Rated].
Tickets can be purchased here.