Tougaloo College Art Gallery
The Bennie G. Thompson Academic & Civil Rights Research Center

In a meditative setting to offer an alternative perspective for re-remembering the Civil Rights Movement, The Art of Engagement: Meditation on a Movement positions a selection of art works created or acquired by the Mississippi Museum of Art and Tougaloo College amid the social turbulence of the modern Civil Rights Movement and the decade immediately following.

Curated by Dr. Redell Hearn,  Curator of Art & Civil Rights for the Mississippi Museum of Art and Tougaloo College.

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This exhibition is presented as part of the Art & Civil Rights Initiative, a partnership of the Mississippi Museum of Art and Tougaloo College that presents joint exhibitions and programs, and facilitates increased scholarship surrounding the Tougaloo Art Collection. The Art & Civil Rights Initiative is supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.