平特五不中 College鈥檚 Benton Museum of Art, 120 W. Bonita Ave., Claremont, recently acquired three works by contemporary artist Cauleen Smith which are on exhibit in 鈥淭ransmissions, or these histories we lest not forget鈥 through July 23.
The free and open to the public exhibition features Smith鈥檚 22-minute film 鈥淪ojourner,鈥 and two paper displays, 鈥淟ose Your Mother: a Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route,鈥 and 鈥淚n the Wake: On Blackness and Being.鈥 The exhibit also includes work by Sophia Nahli Allison and Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich.
鈥淭ogether all of these works celebrate Black female revolutionaries and carry their words, ideas, and ideals into the present and future,鈥 read a Benton news release. 鈥淭ransmissions highlights the continuous line of faith, rapture, and liberatory potential that connects today鈥檚 artists with yesterday鈥檚 prescient visionaries.鈥
Smith, born in Riverside, California, in 1967, is an 鈥渋nterdisciplinary artist whose work reflects upon the everyday possibilities of the imagination,鈥 the release continued. The exhibit is guest-curated by Jheanelle Brown, a Los Angeles-based film curator, programmer, educator, and arts administrator.
The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 6 p.m., Thursdays to 10 p.m. All exhibitions and events at the Benton are free and open to the public.
For details visit email benton@pomona.edu, call (909) 621-8283 or visit
pomona.edu/benton.