Making Histories Visible
Centre For Contemporary Art, Preston
Making Histories Visible
Collecting
An exploration of the contribution of black visual art to the cultural landscape. Drawings paintings, prints and photographs by artists of the black diaspora.
Collaborating
with museums to interrogate object and art collections in innovative ways. Exploring hidden social histories through creative visual practice. Excavating and preserving evidence of artists’ practice
Curating
Supporting artists practice, interpreting and revealing creative contemporary visual art collections, enabling distinct areas of international excellence in contemporary arts research
Sharing
information with larger partnership organisations and smaller groups committed to the development of new ways of writing about, talking about, making and showing contemporary art
Investigating
investigating British newspapers and their representation of black people