Peggy Levison Nolan's photographs reflect her roles as both artist and mother of seven children; one image of her daughter tenderly captures this duality.
"Carlos Alfonzo: Witnessing Perpetuity" gathered major works from every phase of the artist's career, which was cut short by his death from AIDS-related complications in 1991, at age forty-one.
As Biggers has described, his quilt works, which he began making in 2012, allude to the—probably apocryphal—practice of using quilts to mark safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.
Emerging out of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC)—a Chicago collective of writers, artists, activists, and others—AfriCOBRA was founded in 1968 by Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarell…