Welcoming remarks on Day 1 of “American Art in Dialogue with Africa and Its Diaspora.” This two-day symposium examined the role of Africa and its diaspora in the development of art of the United States, from nineteenth-century portraiture to American modernism; from the Harlem Renaissance to the contemporary art world. 

Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Johnnetta Cole, Director, National Museum of African Art.