Black History Month: McDonough celebrates black artists

The McDonough Museum of Art at Youngstown State University hosts two activities in celebration of Black History Month in February:

• Free screenings of The Foreigner's Home noon Wednesdays throughout the month in the museum’s lecture hall.  Seating limited to 24 with social distancing, masks required. Private screenings for classes and small groups can be arranged by calling Claudia Berlinski at 330-941-1371. The feature length documentary explores the vision and work of Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison through an exhibition of the same name that she guest curated for the Louvre in 2006. The film was written, produced and directed by Oberlin College faculty, Rian Brown and Geoff Pingree, with executive producer Jonathan Demme, an Academy Award-winning director. 
• Online exhibitions on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter curated in conjunction with Black History Month. Some of the artists who will be featured are sculptor El Anatsui, installation artist Abigail DeVille, painter Jack Whitten, painter and video artist Ellen Gallagher and multi-media artist Rashid Johnson. A new artist will be featured each weekday throughout February. Additional artists can be viewed in the BlackLivesMatter-BlackArtistsMatter slide presentation on the McDonough website.