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Preface: Center professors, fellows, and staff, May 2023. Photo: John Schwartz
Dean’s Report: Steven Nelson. Photo © 2020 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
People: Sarah Lopez, Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, with Lonnie Holley’s From the Beginning to the End to the Beginning, 1985, cast sand, National Gallery of Art, Patrons’ Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, 2020.28.6
Programs: Artists Christopher Myers, vanessa german, Sanford Biggers, Renée Stout, and Tau Lewis with Steven Nelson during “The Work in the World: Thinking through Called to Create,” March 2023
Publications: Alma Thomas, Mars Dust (detail), 1972, acrylic on canvas, Whitney Museum of American Art, purchase, with funds from The Hament Corporation. © 2023 Estate of Alma Thomas (Courtesy of the Hart Family) / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: © Whitney Museum of American Art / Licensed by Scala / Art Resource, NY
Research Reports: East Building tetrahedrons. Photo: Rob Shelley
Research Initiatives: Postdoctoral research associate Fulvia Zaninelli (center) on a tour of Sargent and Spain, December 2022
Credits and Acknowledgments: Andrew W. Mellon Professor Adriana Zavala (center) and postdoctoral research associate Gloria de Liberali (right) on a tour of Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South, January 2023