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Studio Museum in Harlem Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program
The Harlem museum's residency, running since its founding in 1968, which gives emerging artists of African descent a studio and an exhibition.
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The Studio Museum in Harlem opened in 1968 in a rented loft on Fifth Avenue near 125th Street, at a time when New York's major museums rarely showed Black artists. Its founders put working artists at its heart, and the residency behind the museum's name has run ever since. Each year a small group of emerging artists of African descent receives a studio for about a year, time to experiment, and a shared exhibition at the end.
The list of former residents traces several generations of American art. David Hammons, who had made body prints and works from hair and bottles, was in residence around 1980, and Kerry James Marshall followed in the mid-1980s. Later residents include Julie Mehretu, known for layered architectural abstractions, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas, Wangechi Mutu, Simone Leigh and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose collaged paintings join Nigerian and American domestic life.
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