{"id":2496,"date":"2025-05-29T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:59:32","slug":"studio-museum-in-harlem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/museums\/studio-museum-in-harlem\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Museum in Harlem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Address: 144 West 125th Street New York<\/p>\n

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The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by Black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.<\/p>\n

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1968<\/h2>\n

Envisioned by a diverse group of artists, activists, philanthropists and Harlem residents, The Studio Museum in Harlem opens in a 8,700-square foot loft space at 2033 Fifth Avenue, just north of 125th Street.<\/p>\n

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1968<\/h2>\n

Envisioned by a diverse group of artists, activists, philanthropists and Harlem residents, The Studio Museum in Harlem opens in a 8,700-square foot loft space at 2033 Fifth Avenue, just north of 125th Street.<\/p>\n

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1968<\/h2>\n

Electronic Refractions II<\/em>\u00a0is the inaugural exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1968<\/h2>\n

(L-R) Eleanor Holmes Norton, Carter Burden, Charles E. Inniss, Campbell Wylly, Betty Blayton-Taylor, and Frank Donnelly at The Studio Museum in Harlem on opening night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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July 1969<\/h2>\n

Edward S. Spriggs is named Director.<\/p>\n

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1975<\/h2>\n

Courtney Callender is named Director.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1977<\/h2>\n

Mary Schmidt Campbell is named Director, and oversees a search for a larger museum space that would accommodate expanded exhibitions, programming and storage space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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06\/15\/1982<\/h2>\n

On June 15, 1982, the Studio Museum opens in its new home at 144 West 125th Street., the former New York Bank for Savings renovated by J. Max Bond, Jr.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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June 1982<\/h2>\n

Ritual and Myth: A Survey of African-American Art<\/em>\u00a0assembles over seventy works by forty-five artists, spanning African art to contemporary installation. It is the first exhibition in the Museum’s new building.<\/p>\n

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May 1985<\/h2>\n

The Museum begins excavation of an adjacent vacant lot at 142 West 125th Street, leased from the City of New York<\/p>\n

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May 1985<\/h2>\n

Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade 1963-1973<\/em>\u00a0displays the work of artists who grappled with the Civil Rights Movement and its immediate aftermath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kinshasha Holman Conwill is named Director.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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May 1990<\/h2>\n

The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s<\/em>, a landmark collaboration with the New Museum for Contemporary Art and Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, displays art of the “identity politics” era.<\/p>\n

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1994<\/h2>\n

The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African-American Art<\/em>, a permanent collection exhibition, celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Museum and travels to over ten museums around the country.<\/p>\n

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January 1996<\/h2>\n

Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris 1945-1965<\/em>\u00a0explores the relationship of African-American artists to Paris as a modernist cultural center in the mid-twentieth century.<\/p>\n

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March 1999<\/h2>\n

To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities<\/em>\u00a0displays 19th and 20th century American art from HBCU collections. It is co-organized with the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, in association with Clark Atlanta University, Fisk University, Hampton University, Howard University, North Carolina Central University, and Tuskegee University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2000<\/h2>\n

Lowery Stokes Sims becomes Director, with Thelma Golden as Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2000<\/h2>\n

Expanding the Walls<\/em>, an annual program for local teenagers to learn the techniques and history of photography and engage the James Van Der Zee archive, begins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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April 2001<\/h2>\n

Freestyle<\/em>, the first of the “F-Show” exhibitions showcasing young, emerging artists of African descent, opens, curated by Thelma Golden with Christine Y. Kim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2001<\/h2>\n

Lobby and gift shop upgrade completed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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04\/04\/2002<\/h2>\n

Black Romantic: The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary African-American Art<\/em>\u00a0displays work focusing on the prevalence of the figure in work by African-American artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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January 2003<\/h2>\n

Challenge of the Modern: African-American Artists 1925-1945<\/em>\u00a0presents African-American artists and the legacies of Modernism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2005<\/h2>\n

Thelma Golden is named Director and Chief Curator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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September 2005<\/h2>\n

Frequency<\/em>, the second exhibition in the Museum’s series committed to young emerging artists, is mounted in the museum space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2005<\/h2>\n

The Museum adds David Hammons’s\u00a0Untitled<\/em>\u00a0(2004) to the outside of the museum building, where it has become a signature and recognizable part of the Museum\u2019s identity in Harlem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2005<\/h2>\n

Studio magazine is launched, which will go on to be recognized as a leader in museum magazine innovation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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April 2006<\/h2>\n

Energy\/Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction 1964-1980<\/em>\u00a0presents a focused group of African-American artists working in abstraction in the twentieth-century, additionally exploring the relationship between politics and abstraction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2007<\/h2>\n

Musician and jazz impresario George Wein founds the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize to honor his late wife, a long-time Trustee of the Studio Museum. The annual $50,000 award recognizes and honors the artistic achievements of an African-American artist who demonstrates great innovation, promise and creativity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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April 2008<\/h2>\n

Flow<\/em>, the third exhibition in the Museum\u2019s series committed to young emerging artists, is mounted in the museum space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2012<\/h2>\n

Harlem Postcards commissions artists to photograph Harlem, and turns their unique depictions of the neighborhood into free, limited-edition postcards. Begun in 2002, the project was created to provide alternative, multifaceted views of Harlem, representing its complex and diverse history, and capturing the community in a critical moment of growth and change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2012<\/h2>\n

Fore<\/em>, the fourth exhibition in the Museum’s series committed to young emerging artists, is mounted in the museum space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2015<\/h2>\n

Studio<\/em>\u00a0magazine wins first prize in the 2015 AAM Museum Publications Design Competition in the Magazines\/Scholarly Journals category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2015<\/h2>\n

The Museum announces plans for a new home on Manhattan\u2019s West 125th Street, replacing its current facility with a structure designed expressly for its program by architect David Adjaye. The new building, designed by Adjaye Associates, with Cooper Robertson as executive architects and program planning consultants, will enable the Studio Museum to better serve its growing and diverse audiences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2016<\/h2>\n

The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore present an exhibition featuring works from every period in painter Alma Thomas\u2019s career, including rarely exhibited watercolors and early abstractions, as well as her signature canvases drawn from a variety of private and public collections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2016<\/h2>\n

The Museum begins a new set of initiatives designed to explore dynamic ways to work in the community and take the institution beyond its walls with four public art installations in Harlem\u2019s Historic Parks.\u00a0inHarlem<\/em>\u00a0encompasses a wide range of artistic and programmatic ventures, from site-specific artists\u2019 projects to collaborative presentations with civic and cultural partners in the Harlem neighborhood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2017<\/h2>\n

Fictions<\/em>, the fifth exhibition in the Museum’s series committed to young emerging artists, is mounted in the museum space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2018<\/h2>\n

The Museum closes its building to begin preparation for construction, shifting programming to partner sites throughout Harlem and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Harlem Artists ’69<\/em>\u00a0the culminating exhibition of the Museum’s first exhibition season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Information and photos taken from the site: studiomuseum.org<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Address: 144 West 125th Street New York Phone: 212-864-4500                           About The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by Black culture. It is a […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museums"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}