Báez’s new works embody a provocative investigation on decorative elements, textiles, hair designs, and body ornaments that explores methods of resistance in black communities within the United States and the Caribbean.

Routes of Influence consists of six thematic presentations of works from the permanent collection, positioned within two galleries on the first floor and four galleries on the second floor. These Overview Galleries form a conceptual spine running through the building, continually placing collection works in visual dialogue with the exhibitions and projects presented in the…

For the presentation of the museum’s permanent collection during our 35th anniversary year, this understanding of art was conflated conceptually with the celebration of donations of art that have been made to the museum during the last several decades. The artworks represented outstanding examples of the works that have been gifted to the museum since it first…