Black History All Year (Quick Tip)

What began as a month long celebration in 1926 has grown into a year-round effort to celebrate and extend the study of Black history. Discover the works of art and biographies by Black artists in our collection. 

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A brown ceramic jar with a date and name inscribed at the top

A painting of a girl with green skin holding a Lauryn Hill record album

A large-scale abstract black sculpture that resembles a tree stump

A color photograph of four people with dark skin tones in a nighttime jungle scene

A large wooden sculpture of a white building with fortified towers and a reddish-brown roof

A collage painting of a jazz band walking and playing instruments on a street in New Orleans

A painting of Black men, women, and children coming out of a shallow body of water. The people are framed by two monumental Black women holding a hair pick.

A painting of five male figures with dark skin tones dressed in traditional Japanese clothing

Installation of Veranda Post with Divination Priest (Babalawo) and Drummer by Lamidi Olonade Fakeye

A tall, textured, red-orange sculpture on a grassy hill, with tall trees and a blue sky in the background. The sculpture has a cylinder shape that tapers to a point at the top and the bottom.

A tempera painting of Harriet Tubman helping four enslaved people escape to freedom

A black-and-white photograph of a person standing in front of a wooden door with their arms crossed, wearing a dark-colored, button-down shirt with rolled-up sleeves, jeans, and a belt with a dollar-sign belt buckle.

A painting of a Black woman with short brown hair, set against an orange background. She is bowing her head and wearing a black jacket and a light blue scarf.

three self-portraits of the artist in different poses while thinking

A blue-and-black wooden figure of a woman hovering in the air with her arms outstretched. She is enclosed by a bronze cage that extends from her waist to the floor.

A large, outdoor sculpture that resembles a flowing piece of fabric with geometric designs in shades of blue, yellow, orange, and white.

A sculpture of a headless female figure wearing a Victorian-era dress with a Dutch wax print design. Her arms are outstretched on each side of her body, palms facing up, and the figure is balanced on top of a pair of six-foot-tall wooden stilts.

Tightrope 9 by Elias Sime

An image of two black-and-white, side-by-side photographs. The first photo shows the inside of an African mask, labeled with the word “inside.” The second photo shows the back of a woman’s head and upper back. It is labeled with the word “out.”

Women posed in front of Three Graces by Mickalene Thomas

Women posed in front of Three Graces by Mickalene Thomas

Video interview with Stacy Lynn Waddell

An oil painting of a woman with dark-toned skin holding the severed head of a woman with light-toned skin, set against a black background that is covered with a bold, colorful floral pattern.

Two large black sculptures of the outlines of speech bubbles in an outdoor setting. There is pine straw on the ground below and surrounding the sculptures. There are tall trees in the background and a sidewalk in the foreground.

Hank Willis Thomas The Cotton Bowl

Grade level
Pre-K, K, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, College
Subject Areas
English Language Arts, History, Music, Social Studies, Visual Arts, World Languages
Concepts
Culture, History, Identity