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New York State Museum
3023 Cultural Education Center
Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY 12230
(518) 474-5877

Presented by Black Dimensions in Art, Inc., this exhibition features works of 22 artists of the African Diaspora. The artists express their sense of the unusual by interpreting the word “blue,” forcing each one to confront its apparent simplicity and unravel its cultural associations. Blue can evoke a mood (feeling blue), a form of music (the Blues), a reference to the environment (water, sky), or the color as itself. The artistic styles vary from abstraction to realism, with media ranging from painting and textile designs to sculpture and photography.