Allan Rohan Crite, 410 Columbus Avenue, from the series An Artist's Sketchbook of the South End—A Walking Tour about Black People, 1977. Offset color lithograph.
Allan Rohan Crite, 410 Columbus Avenue, from the series An Artist's Sketchbook of the South End—A Walking Tour about Black People, 1977. Offset color lithograph.
From Local to Global: The Boston Collective
2:00 pm–3:30 pm
Operating outside Boston’s mainstream art institutions, the Boston Collective comprised a group of Black and Asian artists who gravitated around the prominent artist Allan Rohan Crite. The group included a younger generation of artists including Paul Goodnight, Dennis Didley, Reginald Jackson, Aukram Burton, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Susan Gilliam Thompson, Johnetta Tinker, and Lotus Do. Together each nurtured their peers’ practices and sought alternative opportunities for exhibiting their work. Banding together to overcome racial and social marginalization, the Boston Collective sought radical forms of community building. Learn about the artists active in this scene and hear stories about their initiatives that were at once local to Boston and global in reach.
Martina Tanga, curatorial research and interpretation associate, Art of the Americas
Course Packages
Purchase a ticket package for the full four-session “Creative Networks: The Boston Art Scene in the 1970s and ’80s” course. Please note that this option is not available after the date of the first session.
Assistive listening system
Wheelchair accessible
Ticket Information
To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975 ($6 processing fee applies); to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk.