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Its presentation at the Hood Museum of Art is generously supported by the Ray Winfield Smith 1918 Fund and the Eleanor Smith Fund.

Knight Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Peter Norton Family Foundation. Johnston’s photographs illustrate the progress Hampton had made since its inception, pursuing its mandate to assist the children of slaves and, after 1878, dispossessed Native Americans in becoming "proud and useful citizens." According to Vivian Patterson, Williams College Museum of Art Associate Curator and organizer of this exhibition, "The images are among the finest of Johnston’s career and provide a historical perspective from which audiences may gain further insight into the Weems installation, as well as a vantage point on the one hundred years of difference between the two women’s commissions."Ĭarrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project was organized by the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John S. The historical portion of The Hampton Project features images by Frances Benjamin Johnston, a well-established photographer commissioned in 1899 to document the Hampton Institute for the Contemporary American Negro Life exhibition at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900. Weems has exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows, and has taught at major universities throughout the United States. Her newest commission is a direct response to turn-of-the-century images of Hampton, as well as to the university today. Weems has produced art that addresses the formal and political issues impacting African American culture and focuses upon the persuasive power of the visual image to identify and define perceptions of race, gender, and class. The work of these two women, although distanced by time and race, is joined in their discipline and focus on the history and legacy of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University), founded with the mission to educate African Americans, and later, Native Americans. This exhibition features an installation by internationally renowned visual artist and contemporary photographer Carrie Mae Weems, along with a selection of photographs from Frances Benjamin Johnston’s historic Hampton Album of 1900. HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.- The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College presents "Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project," on view through March 9, 2003.