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The Kinsey Collection: Art, Archive, and History of the Black American Experience

by Jasmine J. Mahmoud


Boundless fascination, pride, and exuberance captured my mood while touring the “Kinsey African American Art & History Collection” at Tacoma Art Museum. In late August, I traveled to Tacoma by bus to visit the touring exhibition which opened on July 31. The exhibition centers art and artifacts (from as early as 1595) collected by Shirley and Bernard Kinsey emerging from African American and Diasporic experience. 

Here, specifically, are a few works that mesmerized me:

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