NBMAA Members Invited to Kara Walker Preview

The New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA) will hold a members-only preview of its exhibit, Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated).

The Museum says that Kara Walker, based in New York, “is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures that have appeared in numerous exhibitions worldwide.”

The exhibit, Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), the Museum says,

considers experiences of racism toward African Americans that were absent or only alluded to in historical representations of the Civil War. Created in collaboration with the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, New York, each print in the portfolio is an enlargement of a woodcut plate from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Chicago, 1866), overlaid with Walker’s silkscreen cutout figures rendered in solid black silhouette.

The members-only event is on Thursday, January 23, 2020 at the Museum. It will be from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. The Museum has a website available to purchase tickets for the event.

The exhibit is the first in the Museum’s 2020/20+ Women initiative, being held to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote.

The Museum says that members of the Museum,

enjoy benefits including unlimited free general admission for one year, discounts on programs and trips, invitations to openings and special events, discounts in the Museum Shop and Café on the Park, and more! Join at the Circle level for member access to over 1,000 museums across the country with the North American Reciprocal Museum Association.

Information on how to join NBMAA membership is on the Museum’s website.

The New Britain Museum of American Art is located at 56 Lexington Street, adjoining New Britain’s historic Walnut Hill Park.