In concert with the exhibition Acts of Art in Greenwich Village, is a full-color catalog co-published with Hunter College and Hirmer Publishers and distributed in North America by the University of Chicago Press.  In addition to an introductory essay and complete exhibition history, the volume will include biographies of the gallery’s key artists and entries on important group exhibitions, events, and affiliated organizations. The publication is edited by Howard Singerman with Re’al Christian and Katie Hood Morgan. Design by Natalie Wedeking. 

Acts of Art Gallery was founded in downtown Manhattan in 1969 by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Gray to showcase the work of Black artists “outside of the ghetto areas.” This exhibition—the first comprehensive exploration of the gallery’s six-year history—will feature works from the late 1960s and 1970s by artists close to the gallery including: Benny Andrews, James Denmark, Lois Mailou Jones, Dindga McCannon, Ademola Olugebefola, Ann Tanksley, Lloyd Toone, Frank Wimberley, and Hale Woodruff. A catalog with the gallery’s complete exhibition history and essays on key group exhibitions, including the first show of the Black women artists collective “Where We At,” will be published with Hirmer Publishers in 2025.

Curated by Howard Singerman and students in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar with Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Hunter College Art Galleries. Graduate curatorial fellows: Eve Arballo and Nicolas Poblete. 

This exhibition is made possible by the The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund. The exhibition's catalog has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

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