This exhibition presents a variety of works by many of the most important African American artists from the modern and contemporary periods. Norman Lewis, Charles Alston, Palmer Hayden, and Lois Mailou Jones are from the period of the Harlem Renaissance while artists Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Alma Thomas, Charles White, and Elizabeth Catlett, are included in the group who were active during the period of the WPA. Artists included in the contemporary period are Herbert Gentry, Richard Mayhew, Ed Clark, Mel Edwards, Al Loving, Bill Hutson, Betye Saar and Lezley Saar, and many others.

Living with Art: Modern and Contemporary African-American Art from the Alitash Kebede Collection is sponsored in part by Cox Communications, Ferguson Enterprises, Grace Industries, Northrop Grumman Newport News, Raoust + Partners, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and 100 Black Men of America, Inc., Peninsula Chapter.

Living with Art: Modern and Contemporary African-American Art from the Alitash Kebede Collection was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.