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The Art of the Americas gallery at the Zimmerli Art Museum showcases informative and educational pieces from renowned African American artists. The exhibit, located at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, also features Emma Amos who taught at the university for almost 30 years. 

The <a href="https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/">Zimmerli Art Museum</a> is free and open to the public.

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News 12 takes a tour of Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick which showcases art from an African American perspective.

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Black History Month: A tour of Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick

Not only during black history month, but year round african american history culture and creativity is on display at the similarly art museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick News 12 New Jersey's Tony Caputo takes us for a tour Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mom Bett. She was the first african american woman in America to sue for her freedom in a court of law and she actually won informative and educational pieces from renowned african americans inside the art of the Americas gallery at the Zim Early Art Museum on the campus of Rutgers University. One of my favorite pieces is the piece, I'm standing in front of its by an african american artist named Renee stout. She's created a sort of alternate persona which is known as Fatima Mayfield. It's called the Black Wall and it really is a kind of recreation of what might have been the wall of Fatima's studio. This landscape of Belleville is on loan from the town's historical society. One of the interesting things about Belleville was, it was one of the stops on the underground railroad and the church that's represented in that painting over the Passaic River was one of the stops two paintings in the gallery that are by african american artists and really on biblical subjects. So one of them is by the 19th century painter, Henri Osawa Tanner. The work that we have in the gallery is called the good shepherd. And the other painting that we have in the gallery is by Romeo Bearden who is 1/20 century artists. Very important african american artist for the history of modernism. Um and it's the story of the Magi visiting the baby, jesus, fascinating works of art from an african american perspective in new Brunswick, Tony Caputo News 12, New Jersey.

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