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Shadow to substance

Online27 July 2021 - 27 February 2022
Shadow to  substance

Shadow to substance

Shadow to Substance creates a chronological arc from the past to the present into the future using historical photographs from the Harn and Smathers Library collections and through the lens of Black photographers working today. It examines Jim Crow Florida, the Great Migration, the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter. But it does so through images that expand ideas around healing, myth, intimacy, joy, resistance and rebirth. The exhibition, and its attending programs, will create a space for visitors to see and identify with uplifting narratives shaped by an invigorated portrait of Black life.

Curated by Kimberly Williams, Dr. Porchia Moore, and Dr. Carol McCusker, Harn Curator of Photography.

Tues – Sat 10 am - 5 pm

Sun 1-5 pm

Mon closed

Harn Museum of Art

3259 Hull Road,

Gainesville, Florida

https://harn.ufl.edu/shadowtosubstance

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