CAAM Here and Now - Summer 2018

here & now California African American Museum Summer 2018

welcome.

Happy summer! Warmer, longer days are here, and CAAM is bringing its own heat with a fantastic roster of programs designed to foster community and to inspire, edify, and delight visitors of all ages. There is truly something for everyone, from talks with noted contemporary artists to action-based programs that assist those in need to creative art workshops designed for the whole family.

Our Radical Self Care Now! events have been a resounding success with hundreds of people coming together to reclaim their personal wellness, so we’re presenting three new self care programs this summer. The biggest, on July 28, is a series of workshops that offers fun and effective ways to move, eat, and think more healthfully. Later, on September 7, we’ll explore the role of art in creating hope and community in a stellar evening of spoken word and music (see page 14 for details on these events).

We’re pleased that several other communities are convening and burgeoning at CAAM as well. For example, book lovers join together each month for CAAM Reads!, a program that examines fiction and nonfiction related to current exhibitions. And in July, three talented Washington Prep High School alumni will discuss the impact that their community—Athens, California—has had on their lives, in conjunction with artist Nicole Miller’s film about Athens.

Finally, we’re excited that KCRW Summer Nights returns to CAAM for another sizzling evening of culture and camaraderie. Join with Angelenos from across the city on Saturday, July 14, for music by KCRW DJs Garth Trinidad and Aaron Byrd, food trucks, a beer garden, open galleries, and more.

If it’s anything like last year’s bash, you’ll want to wear your dancing shoes!

Photography by HRDWRKER unless otherwise noted.

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4 exhibitions | 10 public programs | 16 for families | 18 visit 3

exhibitions coming this fall Robert Pruitt: Devotion September 12, 2018 – February 17, 2019

Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush September 23, 2018 – January 20, 2019

Through drawing, sculpture, animation, and photography, Houston-born, New York–based artist Robert Pruitt illuminates connections between spiritual traditions, fictional narratives, and technology and investigates how black identity can reside at the intersection of these arenas. In his first major museum exhibition in Los Angeles, Pruitt reconnects with the religious traditions of his upbringing and explores the theme of devotion, specifically religious practices carried out with fervor and dedication. Drawings are presented as a set of sacred images, sculptures act as ceremonial objects, and an audio component—created in collaboration with Jawwaad Taylor—suffuses the space with an introspective feeling. The exhibition incorporates a selection of works from CAAM’s permanent collection by artists who have influenced Pruitt, including Charles White and John Biggers. These additional objects also reference spirituality, and they speak to Pruitt’s connections to Los Angeles’s African American art community and to artists from the American South.

Nina Chanel Abney is at the forefront of a generation of artists that is unapologetically revitalizing narrative figurative painting. As a skillful storyteller, she visually articulates the complex social dynamics of contemporary urban life. Royal Flush—her first solo museum survey— includes paintings, watercolors, and collages created during the past ten years. Abney draws on mainstream news media, animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to make paintings replete with symbols that appear to have landed on the canvas with the stream-ofconsciousness immediacy of text messages, pop-up windows, or the scrolling headlines of an incessant 24-hour news cycle. By engaging loaded topics and controversial issues with irreverence, humor, and lampooning satire, Abney’s works are both pointed contemporary genre scenes and scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

This exhibition is curated by Mar Hollingsworth, Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager.

Robert Pruitt, Ascension, 2017. Charcoal and Conté on paper, 84 x 60 in.

Courtesy the artist and Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Seattle

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Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush is organized by Marshall N. Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. In Los Angeles it is presented in two parts, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the California African American Museum. CAAM’s presentation is organized by Naima J. Keith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator.

California Bound: Slavery on the New Frontier, 1848–1865 September 26, 2018 – January 21, 2019 On the occasion of the 170th anniversary of California’s admission into the Union, CAAM presents California Bound: Slavery on the New Frontier, 1848–1865, an exhibition that examines California’s underrecognized involvement with slavery in the 19th century. With powerful photographs, historical documents, and other ephemera, California Bound illuminates the state’s struggles over enslavement in an era that encompassed two wars and the establishment of California, first as a territory and then a state. The exhibition highlights major historical events and untold stories of those impacted, and it considers how the state’s vacillation on enslavement produced ripple effects in America’s political structures that are still being felt today.

This exhibition is curated by Tyree Boyd-Pates, History Curator and Program Manager, and Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Assistant History Curator.

Los Angeles Freedom Rally, 1963 September 26, 2018 – March 3, 2019 On May 26, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed nearly 40,000 people at Wrigley Field in South Los Angeles.

Coined the “Los Angeles Freedom Rally,” it was one of the largest civil rights rallies in the country, predating the famous 1963 March on Washington by three months. The Los Angeles Freedom Rally was part of a full day of support for racial equality and attracted celebrities Dorothy Dandridge, Rita Moreno, Paul Newman, Sammy Davis Jr., Dick Gregory, and other notable supporters of King. Through photographs and other ephemera, Los Angeles Freedom Rally, 1963 examines this significant civil rights gathering. It also explores how and why Wrigley Field, LA’s first baseball stadium to the Los Angeles Angels, was a crucial locale for the event. Existing from 1925 through 1969, Wrigley Field is still remembered as the place where Dr. King stated, “Birmingham or Los Angeles, the cry is always the same. We want to be free.” His efforts to desegregate and to connect Los Angeles to Birmingham helped to raise significant and desperately needed funds to assist the movement in supporting the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

This exhibition is curated by Tyree Boyd-Pates, History Curator and Program Manager, and Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Assistant History Curator.

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exhibitions on view Shinique Smith: Refuge Through September 9, 2018 “Her artworks—many of which are assemblages made of used and discarded clothing and other textiles—seem to resonate with a deep appreciation for the ways in which the affordable housing crisis has colored and shaped Southern California’s physical landscape.” —Los Angeles Magazine, May 1, 2018

For her first solo show at CAAM, Shinique Smith, who recently moved to Los Angeles, references landscapes of and for the displaced. The growing global epidemic of homelessness and the navigation of private and public spaces by those nomadic populations are central to the exhibition. Smith’s bundles—composed of recycled personal clothing, fabrics, and objects—and paintings propose moments of abundance, rest, and spiritual reflection.

The life cycles of care and use evident in found materials and shifting notions of home are mapped and unfold in the gallery space. Smith uses the deliberate acts involved in collage and assemblage to explore ideas of hope and belonging, as well as how we, as human beings, create and share refuge. Her works disrupt the boundaries between object and subject, interior and exterior, and the forgotten and remembered in favor of a holistic and dynamic presence. Refuge proposes that we all belong to each other and have the capacity to build, shelter, and strengthen the ties that hold us together as a people.

This exhibition is curated by independent curator Essence Harden.

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How Sweet the Sound: Gospel Music in Los Angeles Through August 26, 2018 With vintage artifacts and photographs, memorabilia, and other fascinating ephemera, How Sweet the Sound explores how Los Angeles became a hub of twentieth-century gospel music and highlights beloved gospel musicians, including James Cleveland, Andraé Crouch, Sallie Martin, and others. The exhibition tells the long history of gospel in LA, including the Azusa Street Revival in 1906, the Great Migration of the 1940s, musical innovations within black church congregations, the genre’s key role during the Civil Rights era, and the thriving commercial success it enjoyed afterward.

How Sweet the Sound is a collaboration with the University of Southern California (USC) Gospel Music Archive. The exhibition is curated by Tyree Boyd-Pates, History Curator and Program Manager, CAAM, in conjunction with historian Dr. Daniel E. Walker from the USC Gospel Music Archive.

Photo: Brian Forrest

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Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity Through August 26, 2018

exhibitions on view Nicole Miller: Athens, California Through September 9, 2017 Southern California–based artist Nicole Miller works with film, video, and photography to explore themes including subjectivity, self-representation, and agency, especially as they relate to African American subjects.

For her first exhibition at CAAM, Miller debuts Athens, California (2016), a film that captures the stories of Washington Prep High School students living in Athens, California, a predominantly black and Latino unincorporated community in southern LA County. Many of the students have been deeply affected by gang violence in what is often cited as one of the region’s most dangerous communities. This presentation explores not only Athens and its high school residents, but also the racial segregation that exists there and the inequitable resources allocated to this specific neighborhood.

This exhibition is curated by Naima J. Keith, Deputy Director and Chief Curator.

Photo: Brian Forrest

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“Adler Guerrier’s work defines the quest for sanctuary in Black Urban America.” —KPCC, February 15, 2018

Adler Guerrier—known for his work in photography and printmaking that explores the poetics and politics of place—offers quiet, subjective observations of the landscapes of Los Angeles and Miami, the artist’s hometown. He examines the public space of the street as a site for civil discourse and disobedience, as well as the more private realm of the home and yard as places for meditative observation and reverie, addressing both as political spheres. Guerrier’s project for CAAM captures the lush sweetness of these places, and, as the title suggests, proposes intimate conditions and forms for black life and longevity.

This exhibition is organized by independent curator Diana Nawi.

Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity is generously supported by ArtCenter/South Florida. This exhibition is also supported by David Castillo Gallery, Miami.

Charting the Terrain: Eric Mack and Pamela Smith Hudson Through September 9, 2018 In Charting the Terrain, new and recent works by Atlanta-based artist Eric Mack and Los Angelesbased artist Pamela Smith Hudson offer nuanced, abstract perspectives on the West Coast landscape.

Both create intricate compositions of aerial views that are reminiscent of topographic or satellite maps.

Their detailed landscapes portray beaches and forests, sites that have recently endured natural and man-made devastation and rejuvenation. Honing in on their surroundings with geometrical, patterned, and grid-like or undulating forms, Mack and Smith Hudson provide new perspectives on the landscape genre while reflecting on resolutions to counter environmental disasters.

This exhibition is curated by Vida L. Brown, Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager.

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public programs All events are free unless otherwise noted and are subject to change.

Please visit caamuseum.org for the most up-to-date information on upcoming public programs.

RSVP to CAAM programs at 213.744.2024 or rsvp@caamuseum.org

celebrations KCRW Summer Nights Saturday, July 14, 2018 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.

KCRW Summer Nights at CAAM is back! Come for a sizzling summer evening featuring sets from KCRW DJs Garth Trinidad and Aaron Byrd, after-hours museum access, food trucks, a beer garden, and more! Dance, hang, and enjoy art, and be sure to check out all of the current exhibitions.

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Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop!

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Opening Celebration Come one, come all!

DJ sets by Val Fleury and Tendaji Lathan Good art, people & food trucks FREE RSVP: rsvp@caamuseum.org Celebrating the exhibitions: Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush Robert Pruitt: Devotion California Bound: Slavery on the New Frontier, 1848–1865 Los Angeles Freedom Rally, 1963

Sunday, July 8, 2018 | 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, August 12, 2018 | 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, September 9, 2018 | 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

CAAM Reads!

Our monthly book club continues this summer with titles selected in conjunction with the exhibition Shinique Smith: Refuge, which explores consumption, displacement, and sanctuary. July’s book is Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-hand Clothes by Andrew Brooks. In August, we’ll discuss Lynell George’s After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame, and in September the selection is Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Join us for lively afternoons of spirited discourse moderated

by CAAM Research Librarian, Denise L. Mc Iver.

Wednesday, July 18, 2018 | 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

It’s a Reunion! Washington Prep High School Inspired by Nicole Miller: Athens, California, hear from three esteemed alumni of Washington Prep High School about the impression that Athens, California, made on them. Participants include actress Wendy Raquel Robinson; producer and writer Devon Sheppard; and hip-hop recording artist, actress, and entrepreneur Yolanda Whitaker, also known as Yo-Yo. Moderated by George J. McKenna III, board member, District 1, Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education.

Thursday, August 2, 2018 | 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

In Conversation: Shinique Smith and Hamza Walker Presented in conjunction with Shinique Smith: Refuge, this conversation between the artist and Hamza Walker, executive director at the nonprofit art space LAXART, explores Smith’s work and its intersections with both contemporary art and social justice advocacy through the arts.

Sunday, August 5, 2018 | 11:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m.

Refuge: Collected with Care Donation Drive Shinique Smith: Refuge includes a section in the gallery titled Donation Center, where donations of new and unused travel-sized toiletries, feminine hygiene products, socks, blankets, pillows, sleeping bags, tarps, crayons, sketchbooks, composition notebooks, and similar items are welcomed. Visit the exhibition and contribute. Donated items will be distributed at the Refuge Block Party in Leimert Park on Labor Day, Monday, September 3, 2018.

Friday, August 10, 2018 | 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Summer Night Extended Hours Enjoy extended hours into the early evening in conjunction with the Natural History Museum’s Summer Nights in the Garden. Visit CAAM’s five galleries including Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity, which features quiet, subjective observations of the landscapes of Los Angeles and Miami.

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public programs All events are free unless otherwise noted and are subject to change.

Please visit caamuseum.org for the most up-to-date information on upcoming public programs.

RSVP to CAAM programs at 213.744.2024 or rsvp@caamuseum.org

Sunday, August 26, 2018 | 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Oh Happy Day: California’s Contributions to Gospel Music This afternoon discussion presented in conjunction with How Sweet the Sound: Gospel Music in Los Angeles chronicles California gospel from Edwin Hawkins to Mary Mary. Dr. Daniel E. Walker, co-curator of the exhibition, examines how gospel artists from the Golden State have made an impact on the world.

Sunday, August 19, 2018 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

In Conversation: Nicole Miller and Naima J. Keith Join us for a conversation between artist Nicole Miller and Deputy Director, Naima J. Keith, as they discuss Miller’s current exhibition at the museum, Nicole Miller: Athens, California. This immersive three-channel video installation presents the stories, struggles, and dreams of a dynamic group of high school-age students from the local unincorporated community of Athens. Hear more about the work’s protagonists as well as Miller’s unique process as filmmaker.

Monday, September 3, 2018 | 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Refuge Block Party LOCATION: Leimert Park: 4343 Leimert Blvd., Los Angeles 90008

Friday, August 24, 2018 | 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. gOD-Talk: A Black Millennials and Faith Conversation Series This six-city conversation series sponsored by the Center for the Study of African American Religious Life at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC, explores the dynamic ways black millennials engage with religion and spirituality today. Presented in conjunction with How Sweet the Sound: Gospel Music in Los Angeles, the panelists include the Honorable Mayor Aja Brown, CAAM History Curator Tyree Boyd-Pates, writer and theologian Candice M. Benbow, and others. Moderated by Teddy R. Reeves, museum specialist of religion at NMAAHC. 12

Sunday, August 26, 2018 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

In Conversation: Adler Guerrier and Todd Gray Presented in conjunction with Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity, Guerrier and Los Angeles–based artist Todd Gray discuss their related interests in examining landscape and history.

Both artists use photography and collage, exploring the relationship of these mediums to the intersection of personal subjectivity, public memory, identity, and place. Moderated by Diana Nawi, guest curator of the exhibition. This event is followed by a special garden tour from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the Natural History Museum (NHM) that includes free NHM admission with event RSVP.

Celebrate the strength of survival by people living on the streets with music, performances, food trucks, and a distribution center offering bundled care packets to those in need.

Partners include LA Commons, Kaos Network, and University of Southern California RAP: Race, Arts & Place-Making.

Sunday, September 30, 2018 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

In Conversation: Robert Pruitt with Mar Hollingsworth In conjunction with his exhibition, Devotion, artist Robert Pruitt and Visual Arts Curator Mar Hollingsworth examine the larger themes and concepts of Pruitt’s practice and how they relate to the works on view.

Photo: Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash

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public programs All events are free unless otherwise noted and are subject to change.

Please visit caamuseum.org for the most up-to-date information on upcoming public programs.

RSVP to CAAM programs at 213.744.2024 or rsvp@caamuseum.org

Reclaiming Our Time: Radical Self Care Now! When Representative Maxine Waters invoked the phrase “reclaiming my time” during a House Financial Services Committee meeting, social media went ablaze. Used by the Congresswoman to demand that her questions be answered, the phrase signaled that it was the moment for Waters—and maybe all of us—to take back our power. Radical self care is the bold act of making your quality of life primary. This series explores how a balanced and vibrant life demands that we take our needs into consideration and act upon them.

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Thursday, July 19, 2018 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Radical Self Care Now! Afro-Drum and Flow Yoga Join us for an afternoon of radical self care with an Afro-drum and flow yoga class, presented in conjunction with Workout Week LA fitness festival. Experience a meditative combination of African drums with easy-to-follow yoga flows for a soul-centered, non-judgmental, and fun experience. All skill levels welcome; bring your yoga mats.

Following the session, enjoy drinks and snacks sponsored by RXBAR, Honest Tea, and others.

Saturday, July 28, 2018 | 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Practicing the Art of Radical Self Care We continue Reclaiming Our Time: Radical Self Care Now! with three new activities and practitioners promoting wellness. Join us for a day of healthy outlets for body and mind.

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Tai Chi Chuan with Seba Inpu Ka Mut Start your morning with the art of tai chi chuan. Seba (teacher) Inpu Ka Mut, martial artist and yogi, will lead a routine of tai chi, a moving meditation that can improve health, longevity, and mindfulness.

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

Black Coffee Experience: The Art of Cupping Enjoy a coffee mixer presented by Sip & Sonder, a cultural center that promotes art, music, health, wellness, business, and lifestyle in Inglewood, California.

2:00 – 4:00 p.m Unity in Color Panel: Radical Thinking for Radical Self Care A panel of diverse and fearless leaders share their methodologies for care while making a major impact in their respective fields. Participants include Lauren Ash of Black Girl in Om, Zarna Surti of Tonal Magazine, and others, plus a special performance from Malia. Moderated by Jasmine Solano, founder of Unity in Color, a global photography series showcasing inclusive solidarity for women’s rights.

Program presented in partnership with Kai Exos.

Friday, September 7, 2018 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Radical Self Care Now! Hope is the Chorus This evening of performance and conversation is dedicated to mental wellness and the significance of hope, help, and community. Curated with the intention of creating a safe space, Hope is the Chorus celebrates, discusses, and highlights the necessity of art in the process of healing. Spoken word, music, and song come together to proclaim the therapeutic value of creativity in radical self care in performances by Shamell Bell, Matthew Hernandez, Tonya Ingram, JP Saxe, Rotana Tarabzouni, Alyesha Wise, and others. The event includes a panel between Matthew Hernandez, Safia Elhillo, and Tonya Ingram, moderated by Jaha Zainabu.

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for families The California African American Museum welcomes children of all ages, and we present a wide range of interactive programs designed especially for families.

From arts and crafts workshops to dance classes and storytelling, come explore art, culture, and history together at CAAM!

Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Summer Fun with Arts and Crafts at CAAM School’s out! Visit CAAM to create an art project—a different one every day—while supplies last. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Tuesday, July 3, 2018 | 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 | 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 | 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Youth Now To inspire activism and inspiration in the next generation of leaders, mentors from Queens of the New Age and Girls Make Beats welcome teens to participate in unscripted conversations and workshops about changing communities through the medium of music. The first two workshops (July 3 and August 7) will include a walkthrough of the exhibition How Sweet the Sound: Gospel Music in Los Angeles to highlight the great contributions of this music movement locally.

Sunday, July 8, 2018 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Placemaking Portraits 3D Inspired by ideas and techniques from Adler Guerrier’s exhibition Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity, CAAM educators guide participants in an art-making workshop to draw, shape, and collage images of places in 3D.

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Saturday, July 21, 2018 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Calligraphy, Collage, Marks, and Material Artist Shinique Smith’s forceful and fluid marks evoke graceful writing found in calligraphy, graffiti, and painting.

Use watercolor, fabric, collage, and embellishments to create your own layered collage painting.

Sunday, July 29, 2018 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Writing on the Walls: Street Art Lettering Workshop with Eric “KING CRE8” Walker In conjunction with the exhibition Charting the Terrain, street and graffiti artist Eric “KING CRE8” Walker guides participants through the process of drawing fonts and elements commonly used in graffiti and street art. Workshop participants will be encouraged to design their own signature, words, phrases, or art elements in a graffiti style.

No prior art experience needed; recommended for ages 10 years and up.

Sunday, August 5, 2018 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Bundled with Care: Hands-on Creative Workshop with Shinique Smith How does the meaning of fabric change when you manipulate its shape? What is hidden and what is revealed? Join us for an afternoon reflecting on these objects and ideas of belonging, while learning more about featured artist Shinique Smith’s process and practice. Inspired by her exhibition Refuge, visitors will roll fabrics and bind shapes to create softsculpture care bundles from items in the exhibition’s Donation Center to extend to homeless people and those who are housing insecure.

Saturday, August 11, 2018 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Art in the Park Listen to the meditative tones of Adler Guerrier’s video, Untitled (blck Devoted to the cause and improvement), then go outdoors with teaching artists who will lead an artistic exploration of nature. No experience necessary; materials will be supplied, just don’t forget to wear a hat and sunscreen! Ages 7 and up.

Sunday, September 2, 2018 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Crayon Resist Abstract Landscapes Create vibrant landscapes using crayon resist techniques and explore various types of mark-making with common household items.

All events are free unless otherwise noted and are subject to change. Please visit caamuseum.org for the most up-to-date information on upcoming public programs.

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The mission of the California African American Museum is to research, collect, preserve, and interpret for public enrichment the history, art, and culture of African Americans, with an emphasis on California and the western United States.

visit How Sweet the Sound: Gospel Music in Los Angeles

Map Shinique Smith: Refuge Gary Simmons: Fade to Black Charting the Terrain Nicole Miller: Athens, California

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Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity

Research Library

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Admission is FREE. Hours Galleries open Tuesdays–Saturdays 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. and Sundays 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Location CAAM is located in Exposition Park, which is home to a variety of museums and attractions. Parking is $12 (cash only) at 39th and Figueroa Streets.

The Metro Expo line stop Expo Park/USC is a five-minute walk through the Rose Garden to the Museum.

Stay in touch with CAAM Phone: 213.744.7432 Email: info@caamuseum.org Sign up for our monthly e-news for updates on our exhibitions and public programs: caamuseum.org Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @CAAMinLA The California African American Museum is a state-supported agency and a Smithsonian Affiliate.

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600 State Drive Exposition Park Los Angeles, CA 90037 caam state board of directors todd hawkins, president zna portlock houston, vice president cornelious burke terri holoman rev. cecil l. murray bari a. williams executive director, george o. davis

Front: John Lucas Kingsley, Portrait of an unidentified African American man, ca. 1860s. Digital image from a photographic print. Courtesy Oakland Public Library, African American Museum and Library; Back: B. F. Howland & Co., Portrait of an unidentified woman, 1860. Digital image from a photographic print. Courtesy Oakland Public Library, African American Museum and Library. On view in California Bound: Slavery on the New Frontier, 1848–1865, opening September 26, 2018