Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum: Black Women's History Month

April is Black Women's History Month, which promotes the contribution and achievements of Black women who positively impact their communities. In commemoration of Black Women's History Month, we remind our community to visit our exhibition An Elegy to Rosewood, which tells the story of the suppressed racial injustices and atrocities committed during the Rosewood Massacre 100 years ago. Years after these horrific events, Lizzie Robinson Jenkins clung to the firsthand accounts told by her aunt, a survivor of the massacre, and founded The Real Rosewood Foundation (TRRF) to research and expose the history of Rosewood.  

Comprised of photographs and heirlooms from Jenkins' family, this groundbreaking exhibition explores the Jenkins family story and the way in which it became intertwined—as did those of so many Black families in the South—with the struggle for public recognition of the region's legacy of white supremacy and state-sanctioned terrorism. Because so much of the oral history has been passed down by women, the Frost chose to commission four women artists based in Miami—Rhea Leonard, Charlisa Montrope, Chire Regans, and Tori Scott—to create original works based on the history of Rosewood. 

Visit before the exhibition closes at the end of Black Women's History Month. 

Source: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum