A Force for Change
African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund
Through—August 16, 2009
A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund is the first exhibition to explore the legacy of the Julius Rosenwald Fund created by the Chicago businessman and philanthropist to foster black leadership through the arts, literature, and scholarship. From 1928 to 1948, the Fund awarded stipends to hundreds of prominent and emerging African Americans artists, writers, and scholars across such disciplines as history, sociology, literature, and the visual and performing arts. A Force for Change will present the artistic and scholarly products of Julius Rosenwald’s support, and will include more than sixty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-two Rosenwald fellows, as well as a selection of documentary and archival materials.
Artists include Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others. This exhibition was organized for Spertus Museum by guest curator Daniel Schulman, in collaboration with Spertus Museum Senior Curator Staci Boris, and will travel to the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania and the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey following Spertus' presentation.
A Force For Change is accompanied by a fully illustrated 175-page catalogue co-published by Spertus Museum and Northwestern University Press. Authors include Peter M. Ascoli, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Julia L. Foulkes, Alfred Perkins, Darryl Pinckney, and guest curator Daniel Schulman. Available at the Spertus Shop on-site and at www.spertusshop.org—$39.95.
A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund has been made possible by a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Major support for this project has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Righteous Persons Foundation, The Judith Rothschild Foundation, and Shaun and Andrew Block.
Artists include Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others. This exhibition was organized for Spertus Museum by guest curator Daniel Schulman, in collaboration with Spertus Museum Senior Curator Staci Boris, and will travel to the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania and the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey following Spertus' presentation.
A Force For Change is accompanied by a fully illustrated 175-page catalogue co-published by Spertus Museum and Northwestern University Press. Authors include Peter M. Ascoli, Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Julia L. Foulkes, Alfred Perkins, Darryl Pinckney, and guest curator Daniel Schulman. Available at the Spertus Shop on-site and at www.spertusshop.org—$39.95.
A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund has been made possible by a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art.Major support for this project has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Righteous Persons Foundation, The Judith Rothschild Foundation, and Shaun and Andrew Block.