Black Art Exhibitions to See This Memorial Day Weekend

Delaina Dixon , EBONY Magazine, May 2025
As Memorial Day rolls in and you're planning for the family cookout and all the cocktails you can handle, why not schedule in time for some art? Through their paintings, sculptures and other fascinating forms of mixed media, Black artists across the nation are telling our stories. One compelling collaboration is Ode to ’Dena: Black Artistic Legacies of Altadena at the California African American Museum, which is highlighting the historic Black town ravaged by the California wildfires earlier this year.

 

"We believe that art plays a vital role in how communities process grief, remember their histories and imagine new futures. Ode to ’Dena honors the resilience of Altadena’s Black community through the voices of artists who have long shaped the cultural fabric of Los Angeles," shared CAAM director Cameron Shaw. "In the wake of devastating loss, this exhibition is both a tribute and a call to continue preserving and amplifying Black creative legacies.”

Step out this weekend and visit these art exhibitions across the nation that will expand your mind and fill your soul.

 

A solo exhibition by artist Stan Squirewell at Claire Oliver Gallery presents hallmarks of domesticity and comfort in Black homes and focuses on the reclamation of identity from historical anonymity. The exhibition forges intimacy and proximity with the past that lives alongside us in the present through everyday traditions. It will be on display through May 24.

 

May 27, 2025