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Let’s Have a Talk: Black Artists from the CMA Collection

By June 20, 2025No Comments

Let’s Have a Talk: Black Artists from the CMA Collection
On view through August 31, 2025
Columbia Museum of Art
Columbia, South Carolina
www.columbiamuseum.org

Bringing together a multigenerational group of 16 Black artists working in and around abstraction, “Let’s Have a Talk” pushes against longstanding expectations that work by Black artists must present a clear message about their racial identity and experience. This exhibition celebrates the Black artists crucial, yet often dismissed, role in abstract art.

Find out more here: https://www.columbiamuseum.org/view/lets-have-talk-black-artists-cma-collection

[Image: Willis “Bing” Davis, American (b. 1937), Ancestral Spirit Dance #568, 2013. Oil pastel on board, 40 x 32 in. Museum purchase CMA 2016.9]