FEBRUARY: EXHIBITIONS & ACQUISITION
February 24, 2009
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has included their recent acquisition of the Obama: Making Waves I linoleum cut print in the present exhibition called “Becoming Americans: African Americans and American Politics.”
Howard Dodson, the Schomburg Center’s director and curator, stated “…as the Obama campaign was rounding out, it made sense to us to try to update it and bring people some perspective on his arrival at the presidency of the United States.”
“African Americans and American Politics,” offers portraits of such groundbreakers as Crispus Attucks, Frederick Douglass, the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, Mary McLeod Bethune, Adam Clayton Powell and others who have led the quest for equality and justice over the last two-hundred-plus years. This exhibit continues through April 19 in the Exhibition Hall/Window Gallery”
Admission is free. 212-491-2200
www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
