Like other arts venues and culture organizations, museums and galleries have mostly all reopened by now, and have also mostly returned to some sense of normal, although it’s always a good idea to check operating hours and admission pricing and policies before embarking on any cultural outing.

Among the vast and varied special programming on tap this fall at the area’s many public-facing, knowledge-disseminating institutions, no theme or topic is more prolific or widespread than surveys or examinations of African-American art and artists and the Black experience in America.

In particular, now is a great time to see and discover the work of Black visual artists, something you can do quite easily at a solid dozen area museums, from the National Gallery of Art to Hillwood, ArTecHouse to Transformer, the Renwick Gallery to IA&A Hillyer, as they and many other organizations seem to be heeding the loud pandemic-fueled calls agitating for greater overall diversity and minority representation in the presentation and production of art and culture.

Editor’s Note: This column has been modified slightly from the magazine edition.

AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM

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Baltimore, Md.
410-244-1900
www.avam.org

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