Learn about the history of the African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program (AAMARP), the first and only in-residence program for Black artists in the United States. Curator Jeffrey De Blois will lead you through the exhibition, Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now, and highlight Boston’s living histories of contemporary art.
About Jeffrey De Blois
At the ICA for ten years, De Blois has been a member of the curatorial team on more than 30 exhibitions and 10 catalogues, successfully realizing some of the museum’s most ambitious projects. He curated the first U.S. solo museum exhibitions of artists Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Caitlin Keogh, Tau Lewis, and Tammy Nguyen. He also organized solo shows with artists Carolina Caycedo, Sara Cwynar, Raúl de Nieves, and Rose B. Simpson, among others. Recently, De Blois organized the first retrospective dedicated to pioneering artist Charles Atlas, and Believers: Artists and the Shakers, which considered how artists derive inspiration from the Shakers.
Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Meghan Clare Considine, Curatorial Assistant.
Support for Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art, The Kristen and Kent Lucken Fund for Photography, and The Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Exhibition Fund.
The publication is supported by Wagner Foundation.
