Louisville’s Black Avant-Garde: Robert L. Douglas

June 30, 2023 – October 1, 2023
2nd floor, Special Exhibition Gallery

Professor Emeritus, Robert L. Douglas (1934 – 2023), a prolific visual artist, is a longtime resident of Louisville’s West End, a former community organizer, and a teacher and mentor to generations of artists and thinkers. Douglas’ work is at once rife with visual references drawn from art history and uniquely his own. A scholar, and multidisciplinary artist Professor Douglas explores many themes in his work, including (but not limited to): Defining Black art and aesthetics; connections between Africa and African America; standards of beauty and femininity; art and everyday life; and improvisation and abstraction in the creative and artistic process.