Studio Check In With Connie H. Choi
For this edition of Studio Check In, Ilk Yasha, Studio Museum Insititute Coordinator, checks in with Connie H. Choi, Associate Curator of the Permanent Collection at The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Black Refractions
The Studio Museum was founded in 1968 amidst an atmosphere of national and global activism. The year brought the collective shock over the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, as well public outrage and demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
Ancient to the Future
The Studio Museum in Harlem came into being as a space to support artists of the African diaspora, who, throughout history, had been largely shut out of exhibition and commercial opportunities.
A Collection is Born
The Studio Museum in Harlem opened in 1968—a watershed year that included the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F.