Artistic Expression during the Civil Rights Movement

Turry Flucker will lead a panel that will focuses on two significant art groups that responded to the Civil Rights movement: The Art Committee for Tougaloo College and Spiral: An African American Art Collective. Active from the summer of 1963 through 1965, he group of artists met weekly to discuss the role of African-American artists in politics and the Civil Rights Movement, as well as in the larger art world, and organized one group exhibition.