Organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Fisk University Galleries, African Modernism in America is the first major traveling exhibition to examine the complex connections between modern African artists and patrons, artists, and cultural organizations in the United States, amid the interlocking histories of civil rights, decolonization, and the Cold War.

Aaron Coleman (MFA ’15, PhD ’21), whose papers and other materials are now part of the Modern Literature Collection, will read his poetry and translations.