She holds a PhD in urban planning and policy development and a MA degree in textiles, clothing and related arts. Her undergraduate degree is from Cornell University. She has led several other BOLLI ...

In the 1960s, Ringgold became a leader in a protest movement to open museums to works ... she recalls when in the 1970s The Whitney Museum of American Art held biennials which only included ...

and the history of art — particularly African objects and their appropriation in Euro-American art movements — exploring invisibility and revelation of Black presence against the backdrop of race.

Learned, who organized the Native Pop collective, likewise inspired the Native American Body of Art movement and traveling exhibit. The majority of the work featured in Native American Body of Art ...

which gave the movement its name, even if people have not seen the works as the artist originally intended. That is why it is always so exciting to bring works by these icons of American art to ...