The MAPC Racial Justice Task Force has secured a docent-led tour of The Metropolitan Museum’s exhibit, The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism on Saturday, June 22nd at 1 pm.

The Racial Justice Task Force is sponsoring the docent fee for our tour, so the remaining participants’ fee is $28, $20 for seniors. (Yes, even members of The Met are requested to pay this fee.) Scholarships are available. Please register using the link below. You may pay the participant fee online as well, or send your check to the church, att. Beverly Bartlett.

Come join in with fellow MAPC members and friends for what promises to be an exciting and insightful tour! Participation will be capped at 20 so if you’re interested, register now here!

We must give the Met numbers and payment at least a week in advance, so please register now!

Here is The Met’s description of the exhibit:

Some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera show the far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s-40s in Harlem and nationwide during the years when millions of African Americans began leaving the segregated rural South. The exhibition establishes the Harlem Renaissance and its radically new development of the modern Black subject as central to the development of international modern art. Works by artists such as Charles Ashton, Archibald Motley, James Van Der Zee, Laura Wheeler Waring, and many others are juxtaposed with portrayals of international African diasporan subjects by European counterparts such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Germaine Casse, and Ronald Moody.