MLK DAY: VISION BOARDS FOR NEW FUTURES

Honoring the future MLK dreamed of, while also bringing in our own visions for the futures we want to create!     Join us for an afternoon of vision boarding, […]

The Promised Land: Opening Reception

Eleven artists with ties to North and South of the Mason-Dixon Line respond to just how much Black life has always been in transit.      The Great Migration was […]

Black Adornment & The Found Object

Join SSCAC Archives and Collections Manager LaMar Gayles Jr. for an afternoon exploring mixed media art, our collections, and adornment objects from his personal collection.        In this participatory program, join SSCAC Collections and Archives Manager LaMar Gayles in exploring examples of adornment and mixed media objects from the archives of the South […]

Black Family Portraits with Seed Lynn

Join us with photographer Seed Lynn for a free family portrait session!     For this Black History Month, we're thrilled to partner with photographer Seen Lynn to offer free family portraits to our community!   The Black family portrait, throughout history to the present, has always been an accessible, but vivid practice of self-representation […]

Artwork Documentation Workshop with Colleen Keihm

Learn how to successfully document your artwork!   In conjunction with our current photo exhibition, 'The Promised Land', in partnership with LATITUDE, we're thrilled to offer a free photo-documentation workshop for artists!   If you're interested in learning more about documenting your artwork in an exhibition, for web use, or for your portfolio we'll be […]

A Promised Land On The Horizon: Artist Talk

'The Promised Land' exhibiting artists join SSCAC Exhibitions Manager and Curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara in conversation.    Our current exhibition 'The Promised Land', features eleven contemporary photo and image artists working across a diverse range of visual methods, that re-imagine stories of city life and the Great Migration through the decolonization of the lens, Southern […]

“where the light corrupts your face…” | Opening Reception

Artists Andres L. Hernandez, Tonika Lewis Johnson and Roland Knowlden consider the many definitions of space, site, and home.     Spatial griots Andres L. Hernandez, Tonika Lewis Johnson and Roland Knowlden invite you to consider how socio-economic and geographic oppressions impact the way we see (or don’t see) our environments. Hernandez uncovers embedded histories and […]

BLACK SPACE: Architectural Historiographies & Spatial Landscapes

Artists Andres L. Hernandez, Tonika Lewis Johnson and Roland Knowlden discuss the intersections of space, architecture, and Blackness with SSCAC Exhibitions Manager and Curator Lola Ayisha Ogbara.      Artists and spacial griots Andres L. Hernandez, Tonika Lewis Johnson and Roland Knowlden invite you to consider how socio-economic and geographic oppressions impact the way we […]

BRONZEVILLE TROLLEY TOUR NIGHT!

Please join us  for the 3rd Friday of the month for the Bronzeville Art District (BAD) Trolley Tour 2023! Bronzeville Art District is Celebrating 17 years, Every 3rd Friday between June […]

3831 JUNETEENTH!

SSCAC is thrilled to host artists Eric Von Haynes and Angela Davis Fegan for an on site letterpress print activation, artist Andrea Yarbrough for a viewing of her PACE Mural […]