Network of Mutuality: 50 Years Post-Birmingham
Network of Mutuality: 50 Years Post-Birmingham brings together works that address the injustices of 1963 and contrast today’s contentious-yet-critical issues of race, representation, and otherness. Co-curated by Ruth Lozner.
Client: The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland College Park; Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC
The UMD Art Gallery and the Levine Museum of the New South hosted the exhibit.
The exhibit features works by Glenn Ligon, Bradley McCullum and Jacqueline Tarry, John Scott, Faith Ringgold and Luba Lukova, Julie Moos, Tam Joseph, Keith Piper, Ken Gonzales-Day, Karina Aguliera Skvirsky, Jefferson Pinder, Michael Paul Britto, Michael Booker, Derrick Adams, Michael Platt, Archie Boston, Chaz Maviyanie-Davies, Erin Wright, Frances Jetter and Milton Glaser.
1963 began with newly inaugurated Alabama Governor George Wallace proclaiming “Segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.” The year ended with President John F. Kennedy being assassinated after he initiated what would become the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The exhibit marks 50 years since the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham that killed four young African-American girls, Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” publication and the murder of Medgar Evers.
The artists’ works Issues including lynching, racial profiling, the KKK, and socioeconomic disparities.
This prompt asks visitors to consider how their life might be different of they had been born of a different race, gender, religion or sexual orientation.