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Revisiting 35 Years of an Iconic Newark Artist-Led Space

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Revisiting 35 Years of an Iconic Newark Artist-Led Space
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, "I See Red: Going Forward, Looking Back" (1996) (© Estate of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, courtesy the estate and Garth Greenan Gallery)In the aftermath of the Newark Rebellion of 1967, which saw six days of police brutality at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, nontraditional arts spaces began to crop up around the city. Just over a decade after the 1972 opening of Newark's first Black-owned gallery, Aard Studio Gallery, and on the heels of the B

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