Taking a Thursday tour
This summer, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research is offering tours of its art collection. Led at noon on Thursdays by Sheldon Cheek, senior curatorial associate for the Image of the Black in Western Art Project and Photo Archive, the tour includes the traveling exhibit “Queloides,” now on display in the Rudenstine Gallery. Sheldon Cheek, senior curatorial associate for the Image of the Black in Western Art Project and Photo Archive, leads a tour through the Rudenstine Gallery, which features the traveling exhibit “Queloides." Featuring works by prominent Afro-Cuban artists, “Queloides” draws its title from the Spanish word for scar. The exhibit examines the persistence of racism and racial discrimination in contemporary Cuba and elsewhere in the world. “These artworks show how the age-old social issue of racism is coming more to the fore between Afro-Cubans and the Cuban government, as well as the people of more Hispanic...