Exhibition Press

InPark Magazine • By Gene Jeffers • October 24, 2024

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Driven by Hettema’s vision to capture the essence of the place, THG turned to muralist Sally Wern Comport to create more than 300 linear feet of murals. “The whole idea is mimicking the existing murals in Rockefeller Center,” says Comport. Upon entering the mezzanine, guests are immediately immersed in the style and feel of the murals and connect with the space. “There are symbols that help you see the universal idea: life at the center of the city where innovation begins and innovation radiates out.”

19th-Century ‘Afric-American Picture Gallery’ Brought To Life At Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

Free Black journalist and educator William J. Wilson wrote about his imagined “Afric-American Picture Gallery” in 1859.

by Chadd Scott for Forbes, July 09, 2025

Mythical ‘Afric-American Picture Gallery’ turns into reality in new exhibit at Delaware’s Winterthur Museum

An 1859 fantasy of Black material culture is manifested as a “funhouse” of art and cultural criticism at Winterthur.

by Peter Crimmins for WHYY News PBS NPR, May 3, 2025

Arts Playlist: Winterthur Museum brings an imagined Black cultural gallery to life

By Martin Matheny for Delaware Public Media

In this week’s edition of Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Martin Matheny catches up with Winterthur’s Director of Collections Alexandra Deutsch and curator and historian Jonathan Michael Square for a closer look at ‘Almost Unknown.’

New exhibit showcases the creations of forgotten fashion designer Anne Lowe

CBS News • Sept 9, 2023

New exhibit showcases Winterthur’s role in White House restoration

By Nancy Nathan, By Nancy NathanMay 4, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. EDT
The Washington Post

Designer Sally Comport shares how she created the fresh, vibrant look for Outside In

By Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

At Baltimore’s Reginald F. Lewis Museum, a show on recent history that’s urgently of the moment

By Kelsey Ables, The Washington Post – January 27, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. EST

"Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change," an exhibition of paintings, protest signs, photographs and video exploring this summer's racial justice protests in Maryland, is now open at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History …

"Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change," an exhibition of paintings, protest signs, photographs and video exploring this summer's racial justice protests in Maryland, is now open at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. (Amy Davis / Baltimore Sun)

 

Lewis Museum exhibit highlights conversation on race sparked by protests

Video by WBALTV 11 • Anchor Theo Hayes 5:54 PM EST Nov 16, 2020
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"It was important to call it that because we know that one of the major ways of access roads to change has been protest, and as a result of the protest, we're now seeing a new awakening, an awareness of the issues of social justice and the issues or racism, and it has been sensitive to talk about, but as a result of the more recent protests, there has been more discussion, there has been more awareness and we're seeing change,"

– said Wanda Draper, the museum's interim executive director.


The tours highlight some of the costumes, banners, photographs, publications, illustrations, and other objects tied to the visual history of the suffragettes and their pursuit for voting rights. The exhibition also recognizes the contributions of wo…

The tours highlight some of the costumes, banners, photographs, publications, illustrations, and other objects tied to the visual history of the suffragettes and their pursuit for voting rights. The exhibition also recognizes the contributions of women of color and those who have long been overlooked in the history of suffrage, most notably in a mural, Hidden Figures of the Suffrage Movement, which includes 14 portraits of voting rights activists whose contributions have historically been minimized.


 The Best Baltimore Art Exhibitions of 2019

Another good year for Baltimore's visual art scene

December 23, 2019 – Bmore Art, Words: Rebekah Kirkman

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This major, dynamic exhibition of prints and sculptures by Elizabeth Catlett, curated by Jackie Copeland, valorizes laborers of many stripes—from sharecroppers to abolitionist heroes to parents and grandparents, all with a strong emphasis on women. Born 1915 in DC, Catlett moved to Mexico in 1946 to work with the antifascist/pro-labor print workshop Taller de Gráfica Popular, whose belief in art’s power for social justice was formative for the artist. Catlett eventually became a dual citizen of the US and considered herself both African American and Mexican and made work that reflected all of her intersecting identities.

In Catlett’s style, women are often shown as both tough and soft, with hard-edged features giving way to the gentlest curves (or vice versa). Her figure and portrait sculptures flow with a similar tension, referencing her varied aesthetic influences including African sculpture and modernism. Catlett’s print portraits of mothers and grandmothers and children in this exhibition help elucidate the reason for that protective/loving duality, uplifting the labor of the caregiver as much as she does the field worker. As we wrap up a chaotic decade and enter into a new one, bringing with us all the labor concerns of yore and everyone proclaiming 2020 as the “year of the woman,” Catlett’s art is particularly resonant and galvanizing from where we sit, perhaps on the cusp of major change.

 

Best Exhibit

Elizabeth Catlett: Artist as Activist

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Christian Siriano wearing his own design and Stephanie Bradshaw, producer of the Fashion show, wearing Saloni, both next to Sirano’s silk evening dress, 2018

Christian Siriano wearing his own design and Stephanie Bradshaw, producer of the Fashion show, wearing Saloni, both next to Sirano’s silk evening dress, 2018

Center: Watered Silk Visiting Dress, 1868-1870, Probably French or English, Work by Margaretta Sophia Howard Ridgeley (1824-1904)

Center: Watered Silk Visiting Dress, 1868-1870, Probably French or English, Work by Margaretta Sophia Howard Ridgeley (1824-1904)

Polyester Knit Pantsuit, 1969-70, Designed by Max “Mr. Dino” Cohen (active late 1960s and ’70s) with Printed Cotton and Wool Knit Dress, 1955, Designed by Claire McCardell (1905-58), with additional posters and decorative arts

Polyester Knit Pantsuit, 1969-70, Designed by Max “Mr. Dino” Cohen (active late 1960s and ’70s) with Printed Cotton and Wool Knit Dress, 1955, Designed by Claire McCardell (1905-58), with additional posters and decorative arts

 


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A new exhibit at George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation house explores the complexity of the first president's relationship with the slaves he owned that lived and worked there. Tom is the first of the 19 slaves profiled throughout the exhibit,…

A new exhibit at George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation house explores the complexity of the first president's relationship with the slaves he owned that lived and worked there. Tom is the first of the 19 slaves profiled throughout the exhibit, which opened on Oct. 1.

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