African-American Film Festival: Black Is The Color
The Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice in partnership with The Rehoboth Beach Film Society presented the second annual Rehoboth Beach African-American Film Festival.
The first film shown was “Black Is The Color.” In 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York mounted a major exhibit called Harlem On My Mind. There was just one thing wrong: the show had no work by African-American artists. The Harlem On My Mind fiasco is emblematic of the barriers black artists have faced when it comes to having their work exhibited and collected.
After the film, Ryan Grover, Curator at the Biggs Museum of Art, led a lively panel discussion with three Delaware artists: Lori Crawford, Artist and Associate Professor, Mass Communications and Visual and Performing Arts, Delaware State University; Terrance Vann, Artist; and Michael Morris, artist.
Links to information about each of the artists can be found below.
Lori Crawford
https://Crawford-style.wixsite.com/loribcrawfordart
Terrance Vann (left)
https://terrancevann.com https://www.instagram.com/terranceism/
Michael Morris
