Skip to main content

Main navigation

  • Visit
  • Exhibitions & Events
  • Art & Design
  • Give
  • Search

Visit Main Menu Block

  • Hours & Admission
  • Accessibility & Amenities
  • Tours & Group Visits
  • Visitor Guidelines

Exhibitions and Events Main Menu Block

  • Exhibitions
  • Events

Art and Design Main Menu Block

  • Collection
  • Collection Research
  • Past Exhibitions
  • Watch / Listen / Read

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum
Kara Walker, Cotton Hoards in the Southern Swamp. Purchased with funds from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Chazan

United Histories

March 23 - August 12, 2018
Kara Walker, Cotton Hoards in the Southern Swamp. Purchased with funds from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Chazan

Introduction

This exhibition interrogates some of the issues and profound differences that characterize the past, present, and future of the United States. How do race and class define lived experience in America? How do we address changing values and notions of domesticity and motherhood? What shifting contingencies of “freedom” are presented by differing interpretations of the Constitution? How are our national histories reflected in the complicated relationships we maintain internationally? The works in United Histories, and the conversations staged between them, encourage us to reexamine and reconsider American history from new and possibly challenging perspectives.

Dominic Molon

Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art

RISD Museum

Dominic Molon

Exhibition images

view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image
view exhibition image

Articles

United Histories

Photos from the exhibition United Histories 

Related Objects

Roger Shimomura

American Guardian

Mimi Smith

Maternity Dress

Wallace Nutting

Braced Bow Back Windsor Chair

Rashid Johnson

Thurgood in the Hour of Chaos

Carey Young

Declared Void

Horace Pippin

Quaker Mother and Child
  • More objects +

United Histories

March 23 - August 12, 2018
Download Checklist pdf

/

Download

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Footer Main Navigation

  • Visit

    • Hours & Admission
    • Accessibility & Amenities
    • Tours & Group Visits
    • Visitor Guidelines
  • Art & Design

    • Collection Research
    • Collection
    • Past Exhibitions
  • Join / Give

    • Become a Member
    • Give
  • Exhibitions & Events

    • Exhibitions
    • Events
  • Watch / Listen / Read

    • The Latest
    • Publications
    • Articles
    • Audio & Video

Footer Secondary Navigation

  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Image Request
  • Press Office
  • Rent the Museum
  • Terms of Use
Tickets
Homepage
Go to the risd.edu homepage. This link will open in a new window.