The Dwyer features year-round ongoing exhibitions in multiple spaces, with long term installations from the harlem is… series in the main space, and shorter-term, specially curated shows in our flexible spaces. The Dwyer also houses a number of ongoing educational and youth leadership programs including special youth performances, workshops, interactive curricula-building, and tours of current exhibitions.

CURRENT EXHIBITS

Weusi Revisited: 2010

Weusi Revisited:2010 showcases  the historically seminal work of the Weusi Collective. Founded in 1965, the Harlem-based Weusi (”way-oo-see,” which means Blackness in Swahili) are considered progenitors of the Black Arts Movement and were among the first artists to make African imagery a central part of their work. The exhibition illuminates the enormous aesthetic and social impact these artists have had, individually and collectively, and the ways in which they helped shift the paradigm of diasporic artistic traditions from the margins to the mainstream. Weusi Revisited: 2010 is part of Community Works’ harlem is… public exhibition series.

On view through September 3, 2010.

harlem is… THEATER

Many are calling the current re-emergence of cultural and artistic growth in Harlem its Second Renaissance. Fittingly, harlem is… THEATER timely celebrates the rich legacy of Harlem’s theater movement from the founding of the African Grove Theatre in 1821 to Harlem’s Black Arts Movement to the present.

With stunning portraits, rare video clips, video montages and reflections on the power of theater in Harlem, the exhibit tells the story of early black theaters, highlights theaters from the Harlem Renaissance, and identifies the current theatrical stakeholders who are preserving and building on this powerful legacy. harlem is… THEATER is part of Community Works’ harlem is… public exhibition series.

On view through September 3, 2010.