EXPO CHICAGO 2018 /Dialogues: AfriCOBRA: Chicago in the Age of Black Power

September 28, 2018

Moderated by Franklin Sirmans (Pérez Art Museum Miami), this panel focused on the art of AfriCOBRA members Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Gerald Williams. Presented in alignment with the Terra Foundation's Art Design Chicago exhibitions The Time is Now! Art Worlds of Chicago’s South Side, 1960–1980 at the Smart Museum of Art and The Art and Influence of Dr. Margaret Burroughs at the DuSable Museum of African American History, which focused on artists working in and out of the Black Arts Movement.