Hammons's African American Flag, Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Partial gift of Jan Christiaan Braun, who curated the ground-breaking exhibition Black USA, in Amsterdam in 1990, for which the African-American Flag was created, and museum purchase supported by The Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, © David Hammons
National Museum of African American History and Culture
1400 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC
Located in the museum’s Visual Art and the American Experience space, the exhibition explores the Black Lives Matter movement, violence against African Americans, and how art depicts Black resistance, resilience, and protest. Visual art has long provided its own protest, commentary, escape, and perspective for African Americans. The Black painters, sculptors, photographers, and textile artists featured exemplify the tradition of exhibiting resilience in times of conflict, as well as the ritual of creation, and the defiant pleasure of healing.
