Nandi Guillaume, Opening of Black Artists in the New York Scene. The Daily World, September 10, 1974. Image courtesy of Tamiment Library & Wagner Labor Archives. © The Daily World.

Public Opening Reception: November 7, 6—8pm

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065

Please join us for a reception on Thursday, November 7 from 6-8pm RSVP HERE.

All HCAG programs are free and open to public. Please let us know if you have accessibility concerns or questions and we will be happy to help. Email: hcag@hunter.cuny.edu.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

Acts of Art Gallery was founded in downtown Manhattan in 1969 by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Gray to showcase the work of Black artists “outside of the ghetto areas.” This exhibition—the first comprehensive exploration of the gallery’s six-year history—will feature works from the late 1960s and 1970s by artists close to the gallery including: Benny Andrews, James Denmark, Lois Mailou Jones, Dindga McCannon, Ademola Olugebefola, Ann Tanksley, Lloyd Toone, Frank Wimberley, and Hale Woodruff. A catalog with the gallery’s complete exhibition history and essays on key group exhibitions, including the first show of the Black women artists collective “Where We At,” will be published with Hirmer Publishers in 2025.

Curated by Howard Singerman and students in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar with Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Hunter College Art Galleries. Graduate curatorial fellows: Eve Arballo and Nicolas Poblete. 

This exhibition is made possible by the Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition Fund Endowment. The exhibition's catalog has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.