The Union County Library Presents: Black Is The Color

Black is the Color is a documentary with a two-fold mission — to tell how African American art and artists have been, until recently, almost systematically excluded from American art history (and, by extension, from American museums); and to insert the story of some of  the excluded artists into the American art story. 

This short, 52-minute art history corrective by filmmaker Jacques Goldstein juxtaposes the history of Black people in America with the history of Black art, and among other pertinent questions, asks “What is a Black painting?” There’s no one answer to that question, but the film posits that Black art started as and continues to be a political act, a reaction to and correction of racial stereotyping. 

A discussion with guest artists will follow the showing.