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One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North

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One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North

April 03, 2015–September 07, 2015

Posted on December 11, 2014

Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor

Panel 3Marking the centennial of the beginning of the Great Migration, the multi-decade mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, The Museum of Modern Art presents One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North. The exhibition highlights the ways in which Lawrence and others in his circles developed innovative artistic strategies to offer perspectives on this crucial episode in American history. The exhibition reunites all 60 panels of Lawrence’s Migration Series at MoMA for the first time in 20 years, and includes other accounts of the movement in a broad variety of mediums, including literature, music, photography, sociopolitical writings, and paintings. As an extension of the exhibition, a rich menu of new commissions, public events, performances, film screenings, digital resources, and publications places contemporary artists in conversation with Lawrence’s masterwork and explores the legacy of the Migration on American culture and society.

For more information on A Road Three Hundred Years Long: Cinema and the Great Migration, click here.

For more information on Steffani Jemison: Promise Machine, click here.

Organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., in collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.  The exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art is organized by Leah Dickerman, The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture, with Jodi Roberts, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture.
The MoMA presentation and accompanying initiatives are made possible by the Ford Foundation.
 
Major support is provided by The Museum of Modern Art’s Research and Scholarly Publications endowment established through the generosity of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Edward John Noble Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Perry R. Bass, and the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Challenge Grant Program.
 
Generous funding is provided by Edith Cooper and Robert Taylor, GS Gives; The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art; Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis; Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III; MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation; Crystal McCrary and Raymond J. McGuire; Bernard Lumpkin and Carmine Boccuzzi; Karole Dill Barkley and Eric J. Barkley; and the MoMA Annual Exhibition Fund.

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