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  Home>Black Art & Artists in Our Collection>Black Art and Artist Videos
      

      
      Search Watch: Black Artist Videos See more Black art & artists
 Explore the ideas, inspiration, and processes of Black artists through our video collection. Listen to stories told in the artists’ own voices, and watch mesmerizing time-lapse installations, juxtapositions of different histories, and live performances of poetry and song.
 Artist Spotlights
 West to East
							
							Rick Lowe Maps the Unknown
						
							Rick Lowe is an artist and community organizer based in Houston. Lowe's Project Row Houses blends canvas and community in the Third Ward.

								
								
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 Artists at Work
							
							Dalton Paula's Portraits for the Future
 The Past is Present
							
							Carrie Mae Weems and the 54th Regiment
 Your New Favorite Artist
							
							Alma Thomas
						
							Michelle Obama and others share why Alma Thomas and her art continue to inspire.

								
								
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 Artists at Work
							
							Unveiling Daniel Lind-Ramos's Symbols of Power
 Artists at Work
							
							María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s "When We Gather"
 Poets Respond to Art
 Art & Poetry
							
							Orville Walker on Theaster Gates
 Art & Poetry
							
							Jason Reynolds on Gordon Parks
 Artist Talks
 Photographers on Portraiture
							
							Dawoud Bey on American History and Seeing Deeply
 Photographers on Portraiture
							
							Lorna Simpson on Memory and Representation
 Contemporary Artists on Their Work
							
							Howardena Pindell on Social Change
 Contemporary Artists on Their Work
							
							Mark Bradford on Reimagining Modernist Art
 Artists in Their Own Words
							
							Kara Walker and Jason Moran on "The Katastwóf Karavan"
 Contemporary Artists on Their Work
							
							Glenn Ligon on Identity








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