The Charles H. Wright Museum proudly presents its latest exhibition:
Luminosity: A Detroit Arts Gathering
WHO: The Wright Museum presents a collaborative gathering of over sixty artworks. Works by present-day Detroit artists, long departed masters, and selections from the museum’s archives are placed in stunning visual and aural dialogues. Arcing across six decades, the artworks’ collective radiant energies unfold in a vibrant visual landscape marked by startling tensions, and at times, a confounding powerful stillness.
WHAT: When The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History was established in 1965, Detroit artists were part of Dr. Charles H. Wright's vision. He and a team of like-minded stakeholders created a groundbreaking museum focused on African American history, art and culture.
We mark the occasion of our sixtieth year in Detroit by hosting an exceptional partnership. We invited artists to exhibit their work at The Wright Museum as a celebration of our sixtieth anniversary. The artists responded with the works reflect upon our cityscape; share inner musings; and capture material and conceptual explorations in the visual arts. We in turn searched our collection to share singular works of the last six decades that capture extraordinary moments of life in Detroit.
WHERE: The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History 315 Warren Ave., Detroit MI 48201 313-494-5800
WHEN:
- Opening Date: April 4th, 2025
- Closing Date: March 31, 2026
- Featured Artists
AT&T and Chase Galleries
WHY: Luminosity: A Detroit Arts Gathering reveals a panorama of creativity that arcs across shared histories, personal memories, and dreams for the future. These works, not usually shown together, create exciting and vibrant dialogues as their radiant energies move in startling tensions, or confound with a powerful stillness. Luminosity: A Detroit Arts Gathering is a lively and interactive mix of media: paintings, sculptures, photography, woodcuts, and prints. The artistic strategies displayed range from landscape, surrealism, modernism, and abstraction to vital examples of the historical and changing nature of figuration and portraiture. “May we see, hear and perceive Detroit in new and surprising ways as these visual and very local conversations unfold before us,” Guest Curator - Vera Ingrid Grant.
About the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History was founded in 1965 and is in the heart of Midtown Detroit’s Cultural Center. The Wright Museum’s mission is to open minds and change lives through the exploration and celebration of African American history and culture. And Still We Rise: Our Journey Through African American History and Culture — the museum’s 22,000 square foot, immersive core exhibit — is one of the largest, single exhibitions surveying the history of African Americans. The Wright Museum houses over 35,000 artifacts and archival materials and offers more than 300 public programs and events annually.
Media Contacts:
Char Yates, Dir. Media Relations
cyates@thewright.org
313.494.5839
Kelly Miner, Marketing & Communications Manager
kminer@thewright.org
313.494.5865
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