Dear Museum Friends,

As the world bears witness to the recent tragedies of George Floyd’s death, the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the countless numbers of Black people before them, it’s difficult to feel like I have anything new to say on a subject that I should meet with respectful listening, but as the director of this institution it is my job to lead both in words and in deeds.

Juxtaposing Iké Udé’s photography with Sun Ra’s notions of "mythocracy" and Black Utopia, Ann-Maree Quaynor seeks to reclaim Black Dignity and Existence.

Curatorial intern Anthony Stott explores the journey of the myths of Ovid—from text to visual medium—in three objects in the neoclassical galleries.

2017 Artist Fellow Walker Mettling delves into the history and context of a previously overlooked textile with colonial origins.

What are the essential questions museums need to ask themselves to understand the future of art?

For Yorùbá-speaking peoples in West Africa, cloth is equated with their most precious possession, children.

A summer intern’s reinterpretation of a 1600s still life painting as lived ritual and faith in the present