At the Dawn of the Harlem Renaissance with Denise Murrell
More than a cultural flourishing, the Harlem Renaissance was a deliberate act of remaking the image of Black America at a moment when it was suppressed and rendered invisible by the mainstream art world. For the women artists at its center, that effort operated under an additional pressure: the expectation that marriage and family should take precedence over a professional artistic career.
In this episode, Denise Murrell, curator-at-large at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller's place at the founding of the Harlem Renaissance and the transatlantic currents that…
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