Summary: This episode features an onsite visit to the exhibition “Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giufridda Collection,”with Alison Gass, the Director of the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Alison discusses the history of the exhibition and recounts the stories behind featured artworks by Bethany Collins, Leonardo Drew, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Samuel Levi Jones, Norman Lewis, and Amanda Williams, among others. The episode also features a special conversation with the co-curator of the exhibition, Christopher Bedford, Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
