Exhibition Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Sims, Lowery Stokes
setName: label: See more items in
content: Lowery Stokes Sims papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 9-10, OV 36)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967-2017
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.simslowe, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Sims curated or contributed to numerous exhibitions including Living Space: An Exhibition on Low Income Housing (1977), Art as a Verb (1988), Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic (1990), and Richard Pousette-Dart, 1916-1992 (1997). Types of documents include correspondence, budget records, writings about the exhibition and for the catalog, clippings, exhibition announcements, loan forms, artist biographies, and artwork lists.

Material on the controversial 1969 exhibition Harlem on My Mind is also in the series. The folder includes planning documents, Community Advisory Committee records, statements and memos regarding controversy surrounding the catalog introduction written by Candice Van Ellison. Sims was not involved with the exhibition, but she may have collected the material upon arriving at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1970s.

Additional material for exhibitions and catalog essays may be found in Series 9: Research Files.