Category Archives: Past Exhibitions

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Ain’t I a Woman

15 Jul ’10 Filed under Anchor Space, Curatorial, Past Exhibitions. No comments.

Curated by Kimberli Gant, MoCADA Director of Exhibitions
. July 15 – December 24, 2010 This group exhibition offers contemporary artistic depictions of women of African descent, focusing specifically on their interiority. Rather than examining women through the objectivity of their bodies, the artists portray African Diasporan … Read More →

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The Gentrification of Brooklyn

13 Jul ’10 Filed under Anchor Space, Curatorial, Past Exhibitions. No comments.

Curated by Dexter Wimberly, February 4, 2010 – May 16, 2010 This exhibition, guest curated by Dexter Wimberly, will examine how urban planning, eminent domain, and real estate development are affecting Brooklyn’s communities and how residents throughout the borough are responding. The exhibition will include … Read More →

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They Won’t Budge: Africans in Europe

13 Jul ’10 Filed under Anchor Space, Curatorial, Past Exhibitions. No comments.

Curated by Awam Amkpa, Annalisa Butticci and Madala Hilaire, NYU Africana Studies Department, Creative Consultant, Deb Willis. October 1, 2009 – January 19, 2010 Their stories are numerous, some similar and others flavored by particular struggles in specific sites of discontent. Overall, their attitudes are of stubborn … Read More →

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I am a Man

10 Jul ’10 Filed under Anchor Space, Curatorial, Past Exhibitions. No comments.

Curated by Kevin Powell September 25, 2008 – January 18, 2009 February 1968 saw 1,300 African American Sanitation workers strike to demand their right to unionize. The Civil Rights Leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., eventually came to Memphis to support the strikers and was … Read More →