![]() In September, the museum will present the exhibition “ Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-Humanist,” bringing fresh attention to the artist who taught at Binghamton for more than three decades. The art historian has presented Wilson’s work before: In 2019, he curated the exhibition “not but nothing other: African-American Portrayals, 1930 to Today,” for the Binghamton University Art Museum. His talk, “Black Monument: Ed Wilson Shapes African American History into Public Art, 1972-1984” focused on a series of artworks that Wilson created for libraries and schools in the Midwest and along the East Coast. Wilson, the founder of Harpur College’s studio art program, was the focus of the 2023 Harpur Dean’s Distinguished Lecture, presented on April 25 by Art History Professor Tom McDonough. ![]() “What must we do to make white people realize that we are humans?” he asked the crowd.ĭuring the decade that followed, it’s a question the African American artist sought to answer in his own large-scale, public work. ![]() Five months after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, sculptor and activist Ed Wilson stood before a Black activist group in Binghamton, driven to continue the civil rights leader’s work. ![]()
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