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OH Art Festival 2nd Annual Black History Fes

OH Art Foundation
1029 W. 35th St.
Chicago, IL

https://www.ohartfoundation.org/ohart-bhfa2026
2nd Annual Black History Festival of the Arts Rephrasis en Noir: The visual interpretation of Black Literature” Rephrasis en Noir brings the written brilliance of Black literature into visual form—an act of translation, homage, and expansion. This exhibition explores how artists draw upon the literary canon that has long examined, interpreted, and fortified Black culture. Through image, gesture, and material, the works on view reimagine the poetics of the Black experience: its histories, its insurgent imagination, its interior worlds, and its ongoing reinvention. ​ Black literature has always been more than text on a page; it is theory, testimony, prophecy, and rhythm. It holds memory and futurity in constant dialogue. The artists in Rephrasis en Noir respond to this lineage not by illustrating it, but by engaging in a call-and-response across mediums—allowing novels, poems, oral traditions, and essays to manifest as color, form, sound, and spatial presence. Their works channel the intellectual power of writers who have shaped our understanding of Black life while asserting their own visual language as part of that continuum. ​ This exhibition invites viewers to witness what happens when literary thought becomes embodied, when metaphor becomes material, when narrative becomes gesture. Rephrasis en Noir is a reminder that Black cultural production is expansive and interwoven—its stories spoken, written, and now seen.

Black Cowboys & Buffalo Soldiers

Kaddatz Gallery
111 W Lincoln Ave
Fergus Falls, MN 56537
United States

This show shares the powerful stories of Black Cowboys and Buffalo Soldiers—people whose history is often left out but whose impact runs deep. They worked the open ranges, served in the military, and built lives with courage, grit, and resilience. For me, this work is also personal. My own family history is rooted in this legacy, and creating these pieces is a way to honor where I come from while keeping these stories alive. Their strength, struggles, and contributions shaped not only the American story but also my own. These paintings celebrate their place in history and remind us that their stories deserve to be seen, remembered, and respected.

4 Points of Light

Cultural Center
24 Main Avenue
New York Mills, Mn 56326
United States

Group Exhibit with 4 Points of Light Artists. Light is more than brightness—it’s direction, memory, and meaning. Four Points of Light brings together four artists with distinct styles and stories, united by a shared pursuit: the glow that helps us notice what matters. Through paint, texture, and layered process, we explore light as resilience, connection, and hope. In a world full of noise, this collaboration invites you to slow down, look closer, and experience how different voices can create one shared sense of illumination. Lyssa Lovejoy Calvin DyRuter Stephen & Jackie Henning

Be A Lady

Prairie Renaissance Cultural Alliance
630 Atlantic Ave
Morris, Mn 56267
United States

The Be a Lady series confronts the impossible standards, contradictions, and quiet pressures placed on women across generations. Each piece is layered with phrases and imagery that echo the voices of society, culture, and family — voices that have said be polite, be beautiful, be quiet, be strong, be less, be more. But alongside the weight of these expectations come the rebuttals: the raw, honest responses that reclaim power. These works do not sit passively in compliance — they push back. They say: Be strong, but on my own terms. Be beautiful, but in the ways I define beauty. Be quiet? No, I will be heard. Be polite? I will be honest. Each painting becomes both mirror and protest, capturing resilience and rebellion in the same breath. Through layered textures, symbols, and hidden text, the Be a Lady series offers a conversation between constraint and liberation — a dialogue between what was expected and what is now chosen. This exhibition invites the viewer not only to witness but to reflect: How have these phrases shaped us? And how might the rebuttals free us?