THROUGH DARKNESS TO LIGHT: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad

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Arnika Dawkins Gallery opened, via an Artsy exclusive exhibition – Revisiting Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad – a timely exploration of stunning photographs created by Jeanine Michna-Bales featuring rarely-seen imagery from this widely critically acclaimed body of work. The show will be on view from August 4 - 31, 2023.

Thank you to C4Journal and Karin Bareman for such a well written article on representation in art and the series Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad.

Light in Four Acts: Between Science and Poetics, a group exhibition that pulls work from the Archive of Documentary Arts Collection at Duke University, was on view from April 16, through September 18, 2022 at the Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Four images from Through Darkness to Light are part of the show curated by Emily MacDiarmid. Other artists include Mariette Pathy Allen, Teju Cole, Bruce Davidson, Frank Espada, Gjon Mili, Zanele Muholi, Jay Turner Frey Seawell, and Carrie Mae Weems.

Two images from Through Darkness to Light were on display at The Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN as part of the exhibition Beyond the Frame: Celebrating 70 Years of Collecting. The show was on view from January 28, 2022 - May 1, 2022.

The group exhibition at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Shadow to Substance: Black Histories Past, Present, Future was on view July 27, 2021 through February 27, 2022 and featured four images from Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad.

Juneteenth | Celebrating Freedom This virtual exhibition from Arnika Dawkins Gallery on Artsy from June 19 - July 30, 2020 featured photography by nationally renowned, mid-career, and emerging photographers. The exhibition and artists in participation, endeavor to continue a conversation about race in America.

Toughened to Wind and Sun: Women Photographing the Landscape at Portland Art Museum had two images from Through Darkness to Light included in their group exhibition that was on view through March 8, 2020.

While in Washington DC for The Underground Railroad Then and Now panel discussion at The Phillips Collection, photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales was invited to the BBC World News studios to discuss the project Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad. Images from the series were on view at The Phillips Collection through May 12, 2019.