Schomburg Collects WPA Artists 1935 - 1943 highlights the work of visual, literary, and performing black artists. It presents founder Arturo Schomburg's commitment to establish and preserve a black art collection as well as the artists’ responses to America's racial climate. Schomburg Collects will feature works by Hale Woodruff, Augusta Savage, Beauford Delaney, James Van Der Zee, Richard Wright, Bob Blackburn, Addison Scurlock, Zora Neal Hurston, Paul Robeson, Billie Holiday, and Dorothy West.
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100: A Century of Collections, Community, and Creativity
May 8, 2025–June 30, 2026Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture100: A Century of Collections, Community, and Creativity will explore the Schomburg Center’s history through the prism of place,…
