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Title:	Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century
Date:	8/10/2024 - 11/10/2024
Address:	Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, 750 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706,
Location:	Madison, WI
Hours:	Monday – Friday: 10am – 7pm / Saturday – Sunday: 11am – 5pm
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://chazen.wisc.edu/exhibitions/nordic-utopia-african-am ...
Contact Info:	608-263-2246

Details:

Love, adventure, educational opportunities, career advancement, sexual exploration and racism are among the myriad reasons African American artists traveled to Nordic countries during the first half of the 20th century. While some visited to learn and perform, others relocated in search of a vastly different life. Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century, explores this often-overlooked time. Organized by the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, the exhibition is the first comprehensive pan-Nordic show to illuminate the artists’ motivations and experiences abroad. Nordic Utopia? assembles drawings, paintings, photographs, textiles, film, music and dance to explore the ways in which travel impacted some African Americans’ visual and performance art. New scholarship chronicles the experiences of singers Josephine Baker and Anne Wiggins Brown; jazz tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon; dancer and choreographer Doug Crutchfield; painters Herbert Gentry, William Henry Johnson and Walter H. Williams; multimedia artist and designer Howard Smith and others. The objects on view offer insight into their lives, the social climates in which they worked and the reasons they relocated.