Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience is necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 and up (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult). 

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience is necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 and up (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult).

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience is necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 and up (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult).

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience is necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 and up (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult).

Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971 honors the legacy of African American films and stars and the role of film in the Civil Rights movement. The exhibition includes photographs, contemporary art, memorabilia and more than 70 film clips showcasing Black American cinematic history. 

See this extraordinary exhibition before it opens to the public and hear welcome remarks at 7 p.m. by Valerie Mercer, Curator and Department Head, General Motors Center for African American Art and Elliot Wilhelm, Curator of Film Programs. Hors d’oeuvre and a Cash Bar will be available in Rivera Court/Great Hall.

Limited to four guests per invitation.

Parking Valet parking will be available at the John R Circle. Secured self-parking is available directly east of the DIA between John R and Brush Streets. The John R Loggia entrance is handicap accessible.

Image: 

Dancers performing the Cake Walk, 1897. Gelatin silver print. Culver Pictures. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library.

Create a pencil drawing to take home while taking a closer look at the collection. No experience is necessary. All supplies provided. For ages 6 and up (children ages 12 and younger should be accompanied by an adult).

Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 – 1971 invites visitors on a journey through the history of African American filmmaking. The exhibition includes historical photographs, memorabilia and contemporary artworks, as well as more than 70 film clips spanning from the dawn of cinema through the Civil Rights movement and a selection of restored, rarely seen full-length films showcasing Black cinematic history in the United States.

International Sweethearts of Rhythm in That Man of Mine, 1946. 35 mm films transferred to video. Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

Please join us in the Josephine F. & Walter B. Ford II Great Hall (2nd floor) between 5:30 and 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec, 8 for a simultaneous chess match between Justus Williams and 50 members of the Detroit City Chess Club at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Justus Williams became an International Master in chess in the year 2021. After achieving the National Master title at the age of 12, Williams has been a magnet in the chess community as a key piece to the award nominated and award-winning documentary “Brooklyn Castle” Williams has shined a positive light on the chess world.

We invite you to witness International Master Justus Williams as he continues to enrich the chess experience for participants and spectators alike competing in a simul match with the Detroit City Chess Club.