6 Must-See U.S. Museums Shows During Black History Month

"PMA is located at 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A self-taught artist, Minnie Evans made colorful drawings in the gatehouse at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she worked as a ticket taker. These works, combining floral and abstract element, eventually won her renown in the art world, including a solo show at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975."

"Featuring work by Black women artists including Elizabeth Catlett, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Alanna Fields, and Faith Ringgold, this exhibition is a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S., seen through a Black feminist lens. Curator Martina Dodd is centering the role Black women have played in actively shaping the nation's history,"

Major museum exhibitions across the U.S. highlight Black artistic achievements. A final museum stop presents the first museum show dedicated to the late visionary painter and Underground Museum founder, featuring 60 works that underscore a promising career cut short and dreamy renderings of Black life. Philadelphia's PMA presents a major retrospective of self-taught Minnie Evans, whose colorful gatehouse drawings from Airlie Gardens earned recognition including a 1975 Whitney solo and mark her first major exhibition since the 1990s. Atlanta's High Museum spotlights Black women artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Alanna Fields, and Faith Ringgold, centering Black feminist perspectives and Afrofuturist visions across painting, photography, textiles, and collage.

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