Traveling Exhibitions

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Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice
March 8, 2024September 8, 2024
William H. Johnson's Fighters for Freedom series from the mid-1940s is a tribute to African American activists, scientists, teachers, and performers as well as international heads of state working to bring peace to the world. The exhibition Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice is drawn entirely from the collection of more than 1,000 works by William H. Johnson given to the Smithsonian American Art Museum by the Harmon Foundation in 1967 and reminds us that individual achievement and commitment to social justice are at the heart of the American story.
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    Oklahoma City Museum of Art
    Oklahoma City, OK
    February 18, 2023May 14, 2023
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    The Rockwell Museum
    Corning, NY
    June 2, 2023September 5, 2023
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Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
June 28, 2019 – January 52020
Ginny Ruffner (b. 1952) is a glass artist best known for her elegant sculptures and mastery of glass techniques. Recently, she has created work that combines traditional glass sculpture with Augmented Reality (AR) technology to create an interactive viewer experience. Visitors to the exhibition "Reforestation of the Imagination" will use a downloadable app that superimposes digital information over seemingly barren sculptures, creating two distinct realities to explore.
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    Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
    Montgomery, AL
    March 17, 2023June 11, 2023
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    Huntsville Museum of Art
    Huntsville, AL
    November 12, 2023February 25, 2024
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¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
November 20 — November 22, 2020 and May 14, 2021 — August 82021
In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements and channeled the period’s social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. ¡Printing the Revolution! explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists since then have advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice.
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    Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
    Hanover, NH
    February 4, 2023June 11, 2023
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    Frist Art Museum
    Nashville, TN
    June 28, 2024September 29, 2024
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Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
October 13, 2017March 11, 2018
This exhibition of prints from SAAM’s collection features the artist’s provocative take on the Civil War.
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    New-York Historical Society
    New York, NY
    February 24, 2023June 11, 2023