The Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) and Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), co-organizers of
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, announced the groundbreaking exhibition will travel to three additional venues on a five-city U.S. tour. The exhibition, with newly commissioned works by 12 of among the most acclaimed artists working today, premiered at the MMA from April 9 to September 11, 2022, before traveling to the BMA until January 29, 2023. The national tour to other regions of the U.S. that became destinations for the more than six million African Americans who left the South at the start of the 20th century and well into the 1970s. The subsequent venues and dates are:
Brooklyn Museum in New York (March 3–June 25, 2023)
California African American Museum in Los Angeles (August 5, 2023–March 3, 2024)
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California (April 13 – September 22, 2024)
Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago (January 25 – April 27, 2025)
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