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“Soul of a Nation” Artists


Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power features work by more than 60 Black artists, created over two revolutionary decades in American history: the early 1960s to 1980s. Watch videos below about a selection of the artists, and find out more about the Houston presentation of the exhibition, the final stop on the three-year tour, here.

Anthony Barboza

Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop

Frank Bowling 

How to Paint Like Frank Bowling 

Elizabeth Catlett

Sculpting the Truth

Adger Cowans

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Emory Douglas

The Art of the Black Panthers

Fred Eversley

The Last Venice, California, Studio Casts

Barkley L. Hendricks

“I Want to Be Memorable” / TateShots

Earlie Hudnall Jr.

Spotlight Houston: Earlie Hudnall

Jae Jarrell

How to Remain Human 

Senga Nengudi & Linda Goode Bryant

Senga Nengudi, Linda Goode Bryant, and the Just Above Midtown (JAM) Gallery / TateShots

Howardena Pindell

Interview: What Remains to Be Seen

Herbert Randall

Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop

Herb Robinson

Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop

Betye Saar

The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

Jack Whitten

An Artist’s Life

This exhibition is organized by Tate Modern, London, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Broad, Los Angeles; and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Major support provided by:

     

Additional generous support provided by:  
The African American Art Advisory Association (5A) at the MFAH