{"id":12710,"date":"2022-06-22T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media-archive.blackartinamerica.com\/?p=12710"},"modified":"2022-06-22T11:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:13:40","slug":"ten-years-of-the-evans-center-at-scad-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthexhibitions.org\/media-archive\/?p=12710","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years of The Evans Center at SCAD Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Ten Years of The Evans Center at SCAD Museum of Art<\/span><\/h1>\r\n
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In 2011, SCAD established the\u00a0Evans Center for African American Studies<\/a>\u00a0within the historic SCAD Museum of Art. Through the generous gift of Dr. Walter Evans and his wife Linda, the SCAD Museum of Art is home to more than 60 important works of art by renowned African American artists such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert S. Duncanson, Richard Hunt, and Jacob Lawrence. The collection forms the foundation of a multidisciplinary center for the study, understanding and appreciation of African American art and culture.\u00a0<\/div>\r\n
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SCAD Savannah \u2013\u00a0Fall 2017 \u2013 Exhibitions \u2013\u00a0Jacob Lawrence \u2013 “Lines of Influence” \u2013 Teaser Documentation \u2013 SCAD Museum of Art \u2013\u00a0Photography by Dylan Wilson<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/figure>
SCAD Savannah \u2013 Fall 2021 \u2013 Exhibitions \u2013 Elizabeth Catlett \u2013 “Points of Contact” \u2013 Teaser Documentation \u2013 SCAD Museum of Art, Walter O Evans Gallery \u2013 Photography Courtesy of SCAD<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/figure>
SCAD Savannah \u2013 Fall 2019 \u2013\u00a0Exhibitions \u2013\u00a0“Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom” \u2013 Artists include: Onyedika Chuke, TR Ericsson, Glyneisha Johnson, Le’Andra LeSeur, and Charles Edward Williams \u2013 Documentation \u2013 SCAD Museum of Art, Walter Evans Gallery \u2013 Photography Courtesy of SCAD<\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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In addition to the donated historic works in the center, a permanent gallery space in SCAD Museum of Art is dedicated to exhibiting the work of contemporary African American artists. In the decade since its founding, the Evans Center and SCAD MOA have continually exhibited and celebrated Black artists, including internationally heralded exhibitions focused on the legacies of Jacob Lawrence, Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Catlett; as well as contemporary exhibitions by Lorraine O’Grady, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Fred Wilson, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Kenturah Davis, and many others.<\/div>\r\n
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SCAD Savannah \u2013 Winter 2016 \u2013 deFINE art \u2013 Exhibitions \u2013 “Considered” \u2013 Carrie Mae Weems \u2013 Exhibit Documentation \u2013 SCAD Museum of Art \u2013 Photography by Dylan Wilson<\/p><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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Most memorable exhibitions for the Evans Center include:<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Kehinde Wiley ‘Selected Works’<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Nari Ward, ‘So-Called’<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Rashaad Newsome, ‘Orders of Chivalry’\"\"<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Carrie Mae Weems, ‘Considered’<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Radcliffe Bailey, ‘Pensive’
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‘Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence’<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Toyin Ojih Odutola, ‘Testing the Name’<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Lorraine O’Grady, ‘From Me to Them to Me Again’<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Azikiwe Mohammed, ‘Blackest Night: A Survey in Blackness’
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‘Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom’<\/a>\u00a0(including\u00a0‘The Golden March’ by Rapha\u00ebl Barontini<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Frederick Douglass: Lessons of the Hour’ by Isaac Julien<\/a>)\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Kenturah Davis, ‘Everything That Cannot Be Known’<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Elizabeth Catlett: Points of Contact<\/a><\/div>\r\n
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The Evans Center also provides programming for the SCAD and Savannah communities to\u00a0enhance public knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of Black art and culture. This programming has included amplifying the story of\u00a0William and Ellen Craft<\/a>\u00a0through a\u00a0commemorative bronze medallion in the museum’s lobby, the film ‘A Thousand Miles and Counting’, and a panel with some of the Craft family descendants; as well as\u00a0the annual Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight Lecture Series<\/a>, and performances by artists such as\u00a0JJJJJerome Ellis<\/a>.\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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