On View
Installations
An installation is time-bound and thematic. It arrives in response to a moment, and it closes or transforms when its work is done. The installation is the curatorial work; the gathering around it is an Event.
Current Installation · On View
The Record and the Silence — 250 Years
A national overview of two hundred and fifty years of Black America — the firsts that were won, and the years the record was forced to go quiet, read as one running account.
Current Installation · On View
The Silence Project
An installation on what the records were not allowed to hold: the decades when Black political representation was erased from the record, recovered and told state by state.
Past installations will be archived here. The Silence Project and The Record and the Silence are on view now.