The OAC supports and encourages those efforts. Masterworks by 20th Century African Americans will feature work by 12 of the greatest African American artists of our time. Curated by Timothy C. Keny, director of Keny Galleries, the exhibition will be on view at the Ohio Arts Council's Riffe Gallery. Masterworks explores the complexity and immense diversity of African American artistic production. Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Ralph Bell, William Hawkins, Jacob Lawrence, John B. Murry, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Mary Tillman Smith, Alma Thomas, Robert Thompson and Bill Traylor.
Admission is free.