Last year, at the start of Black History Month, College of Arts and Letters alumna Asmaa Walton began posting covers of art monographs, exhibition catalogues and art biographies of African American visual artists to Instagram. An art education graduate, Walton was in the middle of her appointment as the Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow at the Saint Louis Art Museum and wanted to share the rare and often hard-to-find works she had found with a wider audience.
Now a year later, Black Art Library is the focus of an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, which opened Feb. 5 and is on view through April 18. The exhibition showcases Walton’s collection of nearly 400 books, research materials and ephemera on Black visual art and artists.
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