Celebrating Black History Month @ The Met

 

Celebrating Black History Month Everyday Fantastical Tanekeya Word shares the knowledge and experiences behind Starshine & Clay, a fantastical embodiment of the feelings she has about Black girlhood and Black womanhood. Read now →     Rashida Bumbray | Civic Practice Partnership, 2017–2021 During her time as a Civic Practice Partnership artist-in-residence, Rashida Bumbray made a film about the anniversary of women's suffrage for 100 Years | 100 Women, and staged activations in the African art and Egyptian art galleries of The Met. Watch now →     Rediscovering John Bush Recent research sheds light on the life and work of John Bush, a Massachusetts militiaman and the only Black American known to have decorated powder horns. Learn more →     The Black Presence in Tudor England Learn more about John Blanke, a trumpeter who performed at the coronation of Henry VIII, and other documented free Black residents of Tudor England. Watch now →     Black History Month at The Met Celebrate the rich culture and history of African Americans through art, talks, digital content, and more. Explore now →   Exhibition Highlights Crossings SPECIAL INSTALLATION Through February 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast Through March 5, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room Ongoing The Met Fifth Avenue The African Origin of Civilization Ongoing The Met Fifth Avenue Upcoming Events American Crossings: The Complex Legacy of Robert Colescott METSPEAKS Thursday, February 23, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue Register now → Discussion and Digital Premiere: Matthew Evan Taylor's Life Returns METLIVEARTS Tuesday, February 14, 2023 Online Register now → Careers at The Met Jobs at the Museum are as varied as the cultures represented in The Met collection. There is a role for everyone here. Browse open positions → From The Met Store   Plan Your Visit See the Plan Your Visit page for more information about buying tickets in advance. Please note our current opening days and hours for each location. Masks are strongly recommended. See our visitor guidelines for the latest health and safety updates. Buy your tickets now → Become a Member →           The Met Fifth Avenue 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028 The Met Cloisters 99 Margaret Corbin Drive Fort Tryon Park New York, NY 10040 metmuseum.org       Explore        Membership        Donate     For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Crossings, Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, and The African Origin of Civilization. The Civic Practice Partnership is made possible by The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. Matthew Evan Taylor: Life Returns is made possible by the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art and the New York State Council on the Arts. For Education program funders, visit metmuseum.org/educationfundingsupport. For MetLiveArts program funders, visit metmuseum.org/metliveartssupport. Your support allows the Museum to collect, conserve, and present 5,000 years of world art. Donate now. Comments are welcome at metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org. Images: Tanekeya Word (American, born 1983). Starshine & Clay, 2019. Linocut, gouache, acrylic ink, decorative paper collage, 11 × 15 in. (27.9 × 38.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. John B. Turner Fund, 2021 (2021.53.4) © Tanekeya Word | Emanuel Leutze (American, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1816–1868 Washington, D.C.). Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851. Oil on canvas. Gift of John Stewart Kennedy, 1897. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 97.34 | Robert Colescott (American, 1925–2009). George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook, 1975. Acrylic on canvas. Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, 2021.45.1  © The Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York | Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827–1875). Why Born Enslaved! (detail), modeled 1868, carved 1873. Marble, H. 22 7/8 in. (58.1 cm), W. 16 in. (40.6 cm), D. 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Wrightsman Fellows, and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Gifts, 2019 (2019.220) | Roberto Lugo, Queen Abolition, 2021. Digital illustration. | The Royal Acquaintances Memi and Sabu, ca. 2575–2465 B.C. Egyptian. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1948 (48.111); Seated Couple, 18th–early 19th century. Dogon artist: Mali. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Lester Wunderman, 1977 (1977.394.15)