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This event is in the past.It took place on May 31, 2026 at Brooklyn Public Library - Bay Ridge Branch.

Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century 1
Decorative Exhibition
Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century 2
Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century 3
Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century 4
Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century 5

Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century

Bay Ridge

W.E.B. Du Bois's groundbreaking 1900 infographics get a 21st-century remix. This exhibition pairs his hand-drawn data portraits of Black American progress with new print portfolios by contemporary artists, using vintage mechanical reproduction methods to ask: who gets to tell the story of a community?

Historical data visualization
Civil rights history
Black American progress
Scholarly exhibition

Tips

📊explore six themed sections from Population to Education
🎨same print methods as Du Bois's original 1900 exhibition
📚find paired book selections throughout the library

Brooklyn Public Library - Bay Ridge Branch

7223 Ridge Blvd. at, 73rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11209, USA

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