Visual Diary of museums, art galleries visited during the last ten months.

1. ART GALLERIES & MUSEUM MUSINGS I’m fascinated with museums and art galleries. Artifacts, collages, paintings, photos, and sculptures merge the past, with the present creating the future. Living History!

2. Embodied Black Identities in American Art at Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut… Bullet holes, torn chairs, distressed canvas illustrates the journey of the Black American.

3. On this journey, some experienced lynching. Despite the brilliant color ties, these corporate knots stole their souls: modern day lynching. What happen to Black Pride, Black Power?

4. Hand-made jewelry from Africa.

5. New England Maple Museum in Pittsford, VT. Did you know Indians stirred and paddled syrup into “Indian sugar” before the Settlers came along?

6. A salute to Madam CJ Walker for following her dream…hair care products for Black women. Madam CJ Walker Theater Indianapolis, IN.

7. Art on the wall in downtown Indianapolis.

8. Indiana is the birthplace of the hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley. His statue centered in the downtown memorial circle. Riley penned children, prayer, and patriotic poems. A poet writes poems. But did you know hoosier is the nickname for humble person born in Indiana?

9. African exhibit at The Art Institute of Chicago. Would you wear this jewelry?

10. The sneaker…at the Museum of Contemporary Art. This sneaker is an artifact, just like the African jewelry. Imagine.

12. Hanging with the poets on the Skydeck in Chicago.

13. Gettysburg Museum in California Very large bug Found objects collage. After the writing, comes the collage. Ancient religious painting man sees angel. For the royal sleepers. Wonder if it’s comfortable, sign says no touching.

14. Sometimes, art galleries and museum musing requires good eatin’ and a good friend.

15. Cousins kicking up their heels in front of ASU Herberger Institute: School of Dance in Arizona. Wonder where they got the idea?