10th Annual

Perspectives in African-American Experience: Emerging Visions

Exhibition & Teaching Residency

Perspectives in African-American Experience: Emerging Visions is an annual paid residency for emerging and mid-career artists whose work reflects on Black, African-American, or African diasporic experience past or present and explores art as social activism. The opportunity includes a solo exhibition in the LookOut Art Gallery, traditionally opening on MLK Jr. Day, and an accompanying teaching residency including artist’s talk, class visits, workshops, and student and community engagement in the Residential College in the Arts & Humanities at Michigan State University. The residency was created by the LookOut Gallery’s founding director, Carolyn Loeb.

This year, due to COVID-19, the 10th Annual Emerging Visions exhibition and residency will be held virtually as an online exhibition and series of events from January 18 through February 26, 2021. This year, Emerging Visions is also held in collaboration with MSU’s 2021 Social Justice Art Festival (January 18-21, 2021, https://sjaf.msu.edu): artist-in-residence Michael Darough, will be a featured artist and guest juror of the festival.

The 10th Annual Emerging Visions program and 2021 Social Justice Art Festival are generously supported in 2021 by a Creating Inclusive Excellence Grant from MSU’s Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives.

Content warning: This exhibition makes reference to police violence and state-sanctioned murder.