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Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, I Will Not Bend an Inch

On View: Sept. 5 - Dec. 6, 2025

Since the Museum opened in 1996, it has been recognized for groundbreaking and scholarly exhibitions, which amplify art by Black women artists, including Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by Black Women Artists (1996), Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970 (2007), Maren Hassinger. . . Dreaming (2015), and Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi (2018), to name a few. It also presents original projects, such as those by Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and the Academy (2007), that examine the profound legacy of the Atlanta University Center.

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Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
Negro Head, ca. 1924.
Gift of Miss Eleanor B. Green. RISD Museum, Providence, RI.

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Repossessions
Oct. 17, 2025 - May 1, 2026

Repossessions presents the work of six Black artists commissioned by The Reparations Project to create artworks based on objects and documents from the enslavement and Jim Crow eras in the United States.

Repossessions

Chelle Barbour, Surreal Plantation, 2023 (detail)
Photomontage and Collage | Courtesy of the artist, Commissioned by The Reparations Project

Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides

Spring 2026

Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center

Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides