EVENTS: Get your Black History Month on!

Our Black History Month roundup includes Branch: A Baseball Legend @ Society Hill Playhouse, "After Tanner: African American Artists since 1940" @ PAFA, Imagine Africa Free Community Day and Voices of Africa @ the Penn Museum, and Tasting Freedom at Musehouse.

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EVENTS: Get your Black History Month on!

POSTED: Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 12:02 PM

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✚ After Tanner: African American Artists Since 1940 by Abigail Minor

What better way to celebrate Black History Month than with an entire range of art made possible by one bold man? Now at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), you can witness how Henry Ossawa Tanner (pictured), an experimental and exemplary painter during his life and an inspiration for many after his death, has changed American art. The exhibit “After Tanner: African American Artists since 1940” features 20th-century artists, such as William H. Johnson and Hale Woodruff, as well as contemporary artists like Willie Cole and Quentin Morris. The works explore everything from Tanner's biography to the religious themes he treasured.

Through April 15, $10-15, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 118-128 N. Broad St., 215-972-7600, www.pafa.org.

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