VIDEO: American Art in Dialogue - 1 - Welcome (Day 1)

From: americanartmuseum, This two-day symposium examines the role of Africa and its diaspora in the development of art of the United States, from nineteenth-century portraiture to American modernism; from the Harlem Renaissance to the contemporary art world.

Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Johnnetta Cole, Director, National Museum of African Art