John Wilson and Bostons Black Arts Community @mfaboston
John Wilson and Bostons Black Arts Community  @mfaboston
Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
How does John Wilson’s vision of Boston connect to the local and national backdrop of struggles for racial and economic justice? Consider this question as you focus on the Black figurative tradition and representation of the African Diaspora in the Roxbury community.

Edmund Barry Gaither, executive director, National Center of Afro-American Artists

Paula C. Austin, associate director of African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program, associate professor of History and African American and Black Diaspora Studies, director of Graduate Studies, Boston University

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
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John Wilson and Boston's Black Arts Community

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