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Exhibitions

For 60 years, Sheldon Museum of Art has provided a venue for students, faculty and staff, alumni, and visitors to engage with art and one another. As an academic art museum, Sheldon schedules its exhibitions to coincide with the academic calendar.

Emory Douglas: "Power to the People …"

September 11, 2015 through January 3, 2016 As revolutionary artist and minister of culture for the Black Panther Party, Emory Douglas illustrated and designed the group’s newspaper with poignant visuals created to inspire self-determination and impel social change.

James VanDerZee: Eighteen Photographs

September 11, 2015 through January 3, 2016 Having opened his first studio in 1917, James VanDerZee documented Harlem’s artistic and cultural renaissance, photographing landmarks, parades, funerals, social clubs, political and religious organizations, affluent families, and celebrities.

Gordon Parks: Segregation Story

September 11, 2015 through January 3, 2016 Gordon Parks, remembered for the commitment to social justice with which he documented American culture, created these images as part of the photo essay “The Restraints: Open and Hidden,” commissioned by Life magazine in 1956.

Black Fire: A Constant State of Revolution

September 11, 2015 through January 3, 2016 Titled after jazz pianist Andrew Hill’s 1964 recording Black Fire, this group of large-scale works presents narrative threads of African American experience from passage of the Civil Rights Act to the present.