See a variety of portraits, places and more in two exhibits featuring Black American artists in an intimate museum.

Marvels of My Own Inventiveness, an immersive viewing of approximately 22 paintings by five contemporary Black artists in the American Folk Art Museum collection explores the artistic self-expression of Black makers working in and around abstraction.

Experience experiential encounters of close looking and contemplation. The show will feature paintings on view for the first time at AFAM, and include both large-scale and smaller works on paper, canvas, wood, and metal.

Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North offers a new window onto Black representation in a region that is often overlooked in narratives of early African American history. Through 125 remarkable works including paintings, needlework, and photographs, this exhibition invites visitors to focus on figures who appear in—or are omitted from—early American images and will challenge conventional narratives that have minimized early Black histories in the North, revealing the complexities and contradictions of the region’s history between the late 1600s and early 1800s.