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Black History Month Exhibit and Talk: Black Health and Wellness

February 22, 2022
3 p.m.
Online via Zoom

Join us as SHSMO Art Curator Joan Stack explores the exhibition Black Health and Wellness: A Selection of Historical Images which is on display in the colonnade cases of Ellis Library from February 14 to May 23, 2022.

Stack will examine exhibition artworks and photographs, detailing how these works expose the difficulties and achievements African Americans experienced related to healthcare and wellness throughout the 20th century. Stack’s illustrated presentation includes analysis of editorial cartoons by Missouri artists Daniel Fitzpatrick and Tom Engelhardt, as well as photographs by renowned Missouri photojournalist Arthur Whitman. Online and free, registration required.

Presented by the MU Libraries and the State Historical Society of Missouri.