'Slow Fade to Black' : Carrie Mae Weems returns to the WCMA ...

 "Let me say that my primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of Afro-Americans in our country."


And Carrie Mae Weems has proven this with over 50 exhibitions of photographs, films, and videos.

Her new show 'Slow Fade to Black' runs from July 28 to August 21.

From the announcement:
For this exhibition, Weems takes a critical look at historical drama staging, presenting several interlocking narrative works that play across the historical divide. The project explores the slippery slope of memory as it considers the great debates of the 1960s amongst the likes of Marlon Brando, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, and the extraordinary female performers, from Josephine Baker to Dorothy Dandridge and Abbey Lincoln whose voices both entertained us and provided the backdrop to our very lives. 

Ms Weems has a long association with the WCMA including The Hampton Project in 2000 and Posing Beauty in African American Culture in 2010

PS ...
This book is available on google books 

American dreams: American art to 1950 in the Williams College Museum of Art

                                                     By Williams College. Museum of Art, Nancy Mowll Mathews