DSVC 101 presents: The Jacob Lawrence Exhibit at the DMA

FEB 25 — Students, join DSVC 101 for this special exhibition of art prints by Jacob Lawrence. Our events at the Dallas Museum of Art are a smash hit every year. We will be taking a guided tour of this exhibit, and after you will be free to look around the museum's permanent collection. Meet in the museum lobby to start the tour.

You can RSVP by joining our facebook group or fan page and then hitting the "attending" button under this event.

from the DMA website:
Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture will celebrate the artistry of Jacob Lawrence, an important American painter and print maker. Jacob Lawrence (1918-2000) created 15 dramatic and colorful silk-screen prints based on a series of 41 paintings entitled The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture that he completed in 1938. This exhibition will present all fifteen silk-screen prints from the Curtis Ransom Collection of African American Art, alongside the Dallas Museum of Art’s painting The Visitors, and a related portrait photograph by Arnold Newman of the artist from the DMA’s collections.

Toussaint L’Ouverture was a leader in the Haitian revolution. Born a slave, he became commander in chief of the revolutionary army in 1800. In 1804, Haiti became the first black Western republic. L’Ouverture was instrumental in drafting independent Haiti’s first democratic constitution. Through these powerful works about L’Ouverture and the Haitian revolution, Lawrence presents his vision of humanity’s struggle toward unity and equality.

Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and curated by Roslyn A. Walker, Senior Curator, The Arts of Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas and The Margaret McDermott Curator of African Art, and Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art.

This is an open event—free to students, educators and design enthusiasts.