The Mayor's Office Gallery

NO GOING BACK - VOICES OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

Group show by the African American Masters Artist in Residence Program:

Jay Pix Belmer, Gloretta Baynes, Reggie Jackson, Hakim Raquib and Susan Thompson

The African American Master Artist-in-Residence Program (AAMARP) was founded at Northeastern University in 1977 by influential artist and educator Dana C. Chandler, Jr. For nearly fifty years, AAMARP has been a vital outgrowth of the Black Arts Movement in Boston with a mission to afford a “living focus” on “the diverse dynamics of African American aesthetics” by providing studio spaces for artists, presenting numerous exhibitions, and serving as a meaningful meeting place. Several generations of artists working at AAMARP and its orbit have made artworks in a diversity of media, from large-scale paintings and assemblage-based sculptures to textile-based works and photography, often oriented to themes of social justice. Today, the program, still supported by Northeastern University, functions as an artist collective of 14 intergenerational artists—several of them long-term residents—whose works reflect an array of approaches to the art of Africa and the African diaspora. 

To learn more about this exhibition please email Hakim Raquib: hakimfoto@gmail.com.