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Fabric of a Nation
American Quilt Stories
A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African…
Black Power in Print
Examining the Black Power movement’s legacy in visual culture and its resonance today
Institutional Critique Now: A Conversation between Dr. Kelli Morgan and Chenoa Baker
What dialogue comes forth when a document resurfaces in an archive? In 2021, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, rediscovered Dana C. Chandler’s “A…
A Manifesto, a Door: A Conversation between Dana Chandler, Dahna Chandler, and Liz Munsell
On January 15, 1970, Boston-based artist and activist Dana C. Chandler Jr. submitted a document he titled “A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional…
A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
In 1970, the artist and activist Dana Chandler wrote “A Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,” a manifesto…
A Black Power in Print Annotated Bibliography
In his “Proposal to Eradicate Institutional Racism at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,” Dana Chandler writes, “One of the black museum’s greatest…
Introduction to “Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston” Exhibition Catalogue
In 1970, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts mounted the exhibition “Afro‐American Artists: New York and Boston,”…
The dictionary definition of an archive is a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group…
Poets and Witnesses: A Conversation between Bouchra Khalili and Jackie Wang
This interview originally appeared in Radical Ally , a publication created by Moroccan French artist Bouchra Khalili and co-edited with Xavier Nueno…
Corn Husk Weaving
Corn husk is used by tribal artists for baskets, mats, braided rugs, and even braided shoes and sandals.