Tour

Unpacking Black Art History: Historical Reclamation

February 19, 2025
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Archival contents spill out of a box including prints with red illustrations, photographs, and color swatches.
Renée Green, in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Artist box contents for Mise-en-Scène: Commemorative Toile, 1992. Pigment on cotton sateen, upholstered furniture, and pigment on paper-backed cotton sateen wallpaper. Dimensions vary with installation. Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño.

This Black History Month, dive into the artistic process of nine Artists-in-Residence whose projects explore themes of historical reclamation, cultural identity, and Afrofuturism. Sift through a selection of artist boxes to uncover test prints, notes, photographs, scale models, and production materials that reveal the artists’ conceptual and material approach over the course of their residencies.

On this tour, we’ll unpack strategies of historical reclamation through the following artist boxes:

Jayson Musson: His History of Art, 2022
Renée Green: Mise-en-Scène: Commemorative Toile, 1992
Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know, 2019

Event Information

February 19, 2025
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum
1214 Arch Street, Philadelphia 19107

Sixth Floor Print Studio

$10 Public | Free for FWM members

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