Wednesday, March 29, 2023
March 4–September 2, 2023
Exhibition Web Page
The D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Massachusetts is holding a retrospective celebrating the art of Nelson Stevens. Kiara Hill, who recently completed her Ph.D. in Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts and was a Curatorial Fellow with the History of Art & Architecture Department, served as the exhibition's curatorial and interpretation advisor!
This remarkable exhibition, spanning more than 50 years of the artist’s career, explores the political, cultural, and socioeconomic messages in Stevens’s art and style of painting. An early member of AfriCOBRA (the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), and a professor at Northern Illinois University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Stevens spent decades alongside leading intellectuals of the Black Arts and Black Power movements. His experiences contributed to a legacy of vivid works that amplify African American culture and achievements.