National Museum of African American History and Culture

A set of original comic book splash pages for pages 2 and 3 of Brotherman No. 5 illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile. The pages form one large image and are taped together by white adhesive tape on the back of the sheets of paper. The black and white drawing is of a street scene in front of Big City Courthouse. It depicts a large crowd of people in front of the courthouse with additional buildings in th

The primary depiction is of two men threatening an unarmed man with pistols. The overall scene shows several men crowded in a small room. On the left, a man wears dark jacket, bright shirt and trousers, bent hat, and rests his proper left hand on the shoulder of an unarmed man. In the middle, the unarmed man with curly hair wears a bright long sleeve shirt and patched trousers. With his right arm

A mimeograph reproduction of Abstraction, by Earle Nixon for the Committee for the Negro in the Arts, Art Workshop Folio. Printed in black on white paper, it is a reproduction of an abstract, charcoal drawing. Within multi-layered forms, lines, and shading, a large, loose spiral shape dominates the center of the drawing. The spiral has three curlicues toward the bottom half of the shape. Below the

A digital scan of a drawing originally done in ink. The drawing is held as a PDF file (.pdf) and is titled "Academic Window.” It features a hand-drawn sketch of a four story, glass and brick or stone building with a flat roof. A central, open stairway connecting the floors is visible through the floor-to-ceiling windows. People are visible in both the interior and exterior. There are trees in the

This is a charcoal and ink drawing depicting a portrait of a man with the upper part of his face deliberately wiped away. The man is depicted from the shoulders up. He is wearing a grey suit jacket with subtle stripes over a white shirt with a high collar and a dark grey tie. He is facing the viewer and has a neat mustache. Starting at his eyes, his face is obscured with long, sweeping horizontal

A mimeograph reproduction of Baby, by Edward Strickland for the Committee for the Negro in the Arts, Art Workshop Folio. Printed in black ink on white paper, it is a reproduction of a charcoal drawing that depicts an infant. The infant’s head is sketched in detail while its shoulders and proper right hand are loosely sketched. The infant is shown in three quarters pose with its head is turned slig

The rendering depicts a sunken walkway descending towards the west facing side of the museum. The wide, walled walkway extends the full width of the rendering’s foreground and narrows to convey perspective as it extends towards the museum, dividing a water feature in front of the museum. The walkway turns sharply to the right, and then left, at the water feature. Along the walls lining the walkway

In the foreground, rendered in gray with green grass and trees on either side, is the footpath leading towards the building with a circular entrance plaza in front. The plaza is encircled with low white benches. In the center are several white plinths of varying heights. On and among the plinths are depictions of bronze statues of Tommie Smith (left) and John Carlos (right), standing with raised f

In this view, the Museum building is depicted in the background, set atop green grass and against a bright yellow sky. In the foreground of the image is a structure with a V-shaped, subterranean entrance in front of the building. The interior walls are shown in gray with white highlighting on the top edge. Over the gray interior of the walls are solid darker gray lines drawn in perspective at the

Extending horizontally on either side of the footpath is a narrow water feature outlined in white and rendered in water textured blue, segmenting the museum grounds from the pedestrian sidewalk along the street. Between the horizontal water feature and the footbridge on the left is a larger, round water feature featuring a black sculpture of a nude woman representing the Yoruba orisha Yemaya, lyin

An Adobe Illustrator file of the site plan and elevations from a project titled "Black Effect" by Tobi Ashiru. The project is an artistic reimagining of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. This is a grouping of five imagined exterior views of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. On the left is a large, aerial view of the museum and grounds. On the r

The rendering is shown from the perspective of a balcony on top of an overhang above Heritage Hall. The balcony features a narrow strip of greenspace that extends almost the full length of the building to the southwest corner. Behind the greenspace there is a brown bench that runs the full length of the greenspace and in front is line of windows. Behind the bench are windows and a square windowed