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DESCRIPTION:May 5 - Oct 21\, 2026\nOver the course of a 50-year career\, th
 e artist Willie Birch has been unafraid to confront the ugly truths of Ame
 rican history as it relates to Black identity. “It’s incumbent to me t
 o understand that I owe something to my ancestors\,” he told Cultured ma
 gazine in 2022. “My work is loaded with them.” Birch was born in New O
 rleans in 1942\, but trained in Europe\, Baltimore\, and New York. That gl
 obal perspective grounded his work around “retentions\,” a term Birch 
 uses to illustrate how traditions from different cultures appear in Black 
 American life. A new exhibition chronicles his examination of the intercon
 nectedness of global cultures\, while also amplifying the Black American e
 xperience as a whole. The works\, mostly on paper\, are organized in three
  sections: pieces from the early 1960s\, his focus on papier-mâché sculp
 ture in the 1980s\, and his large-scale charcoals. This is Birch’s first
  career retrospective.
LOCATION:California African American Museum\, 600 State Dr\, Los Angeles\, 
 CA 90037\, United States
SUMMARY:Willie Birch: Stories to Tell
URL;VALUE=TEXT:https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/willie-birch-stories-
 to-tell
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