Exhibition Title: Black Rock: The Metamorphosis of Home from Isolation to Connection Task Force Exhibition (Black Rock) January 27 – February 24, 2007

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC

OPENING RECEPTION, Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm, performances by Maurice Chesnut, Shaka Zulu Overdrive and Nadine LaFond at 8:30 pm. REBORN @ Gallery Aferro, 73 Market Street, Newark, NJ

Newark, NJ – December 19, 2006 – Gallery Aferro and REBORN proudly present a two level multimedia group exhibition of 22 contemporary artists and changemakers of African descent and those influenced by the forms, traditions and history of the African Diaspora. Spanning more than 11 countries these artists of the Caribbean, South America, Europe and West Africa claim Home in a post -Civil Rights Movement era by gathering, re-imagining and dreaming a deeper connected community (albeit complex and scary) – together.
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All the other big cities have a place where you can see folksy sculpture from people like Nari Ward or Kara Walker’s notable silhouettes and now Detroit will too with the opening of MOCAD.

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