The Colored Girls Museum launched her spring campaign and exhibition, “In Search of The Colored Girl,” on Sunday, March 3, 2019 coinciding with Women’s History Month.

“In Search of The Colored Girl” is TCGM’s fourth exhibition since its opening in September of 2015. We are the first and only institution of to document and celebrate the ordinary, extraordinary colored girl through art and artifacts significant to her experience.

The current campaign and exhibition considers movements like #Metoo, #Muterkelly, the adultification of black girls, and the erasure of contributions of black women and girls from important movements and history. We also acknowledge the nearly 75,000 black and brown girls and women who are missing in this country.

In docent led tours of “In Search of The Colored Girl” patrons become the “Search Party”; the museum is our excavation site and visual travelogue. Where each installation, and work of art or artifact is a clue. Evidence. “She” “the colored girl” does exist, no matter how much she is excluded or overlooked.

“In Search of The Colored Girl” welcomes several new artists including, Portrait Artist Kalila Addur-Razzaq The Women’s Mobile Museum. Afar, Danielle Morris, Shasta Bady, Iris Maldonado, Muffy Ashely Torres, Shana Adina Roberts, Andrea Walls Tash Billington Curated by: Danielle Morris and Shana Adina. This collective of Philadelphia based artist participated in a 12 month residency project led by South African photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi. Members developed photography and visual storytelling skills which enabled them to tell their own stories through self-portraits and portraits of women in their families and communities.

The dining room is our Collections Suite with a range of dolls action figures and other artifacts on loan from the private collections of Valerie Clemmons and Ian Friday. Yinka Orafidiya takes over the kitchen curating her ceramic vessels and artifacts into the space including vessels which were made as part of her residency at Tyler . Women from the community learned ceramic arts and collectively built the vessels which are currently on display. Yinka welcomes into her space ceramic artist Michelle Ettrick.

The second floor suite welcomes curators Syretta Scott and Shanti Meyers of DuartexSable, a Hair Salon and Boutique in North Philadelphia. Makeba Rainey adds one of her portraits to our ongoing portrait series “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” alongside Keisha Whatley and Nastassja Swift.

Lavett Ballard, a curator and visual artist named as one of “10 Black Emerging Female Artists to Watch” by the prestigious website, Black Art In America in 2018, updated her fall installation to include; Janet Taylor Pickett, Kristine Mays, Rosiland Nzinga Nichols joining Beverly McCutcheon, Ellen Tiberino, Karina Puente, Nile Livingston and Laura Cooper. Photography donated by Montclair, N.J. based artist, Nastassia Davis.

The Colored Boys’ Room, curated by Ian Friday and Michael Clemmons, features vintage action figures from Marvel’s Black Panther as well as paintings from Tim McFarlane’s critically acclaimed Black Swan series. The Colored Boys room welcomes artist Michah Lee.

About The Colored Girls’ Museum
The Colored Girls Museum began tours in March of 2016 and is headquartered in Historic Germantown Philadelphia. This museum is described as a living, breathing document which shares the stories and artifacts of the ordinary and extraordinary Colored Girl.

Submissions by artists and curators are accepted through open calls.
To learn more visit her at her website: www.thecoloredgirlsmuseum.com

Docent led tours are Sundays held every hour on the hour from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Group tours are available Tuesday– Saturday by appointment only, for groups of 10 or more.

General Admission – $15 Students & Seniors 65+ $10
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The Colored Girls’ Museum
4613 Newhall Street Philadelphia, PA.
(267)630-4438