Exhibitions

Temples of Hope, Rituals of Survival: Gordon Parks and Black Religious Life

Opening Tuesday, September 9, 2025, from 5–7 PM at the Howard University Museum, Founders Library, Temples of Hope, Rituals of Survival: Gordon Parks and Black Religious Life invites audiences into a powerful exploration of resilience, beauty, and sacred tradition through the lens of one of America’s most influential photographers. The evening begins with a Reflection Roundtable at 5 PM in the Browsing Room, setting the stage for an exhibition that honors the spiritual practices that have sustained Black communities for generations. On view through December 1, 2025, this exhibition is presented in partnership with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, The Gordon Parks Foundation, and Art Bridges.

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A Landmark Exhibition of the Black Diaspora

Howard University Gallery of Art

October 27, 2025 - May 15, 2026

The “Africana Americanxs In Transit Across the Black Kairibe” features over 40 works of art and films from the Howard University Gallery of Art Collection and contemporary African Caribbean diaspora artists. The curatorial project presents a continental history of Black diaspora subjectivity in the legacy of Howard University professor, philosopher, scholar, and cultural activist Dr. Alain L. Locke and the artistic representation of the Black Caribbean as visual culture for ancestral connectivity and Global Africa futurity.

Artists included are Lois Mailou Jones, Romare Bearden, William Edouard Scott, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Wifrido Lam, Norman Lewis, Keith Morrison, Petion Savain, Richmond Barthé, Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Augusta Sauvage, Coco Fusco, Tomas Allen Harris, Billy Gerard Frank, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Harmonia Rosales, Pau Mar, and Sergio Sanchez Santamaria.

“Africana Americanxs In Transit Across the Black Kairibe” is organized by Howard University Gallery of Art and the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts.