Thank you to all who joined us for our second Mellon Archives Innovation program on Sunday, October 9, as Dr. Sam Aranke led a collaborative discussion on the social history and impact of Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, and connected the book to its inclusion in and the legacy of the Johnson Publishing Library, located inside the Stony Island Arts Bank. Pop by for our third Mellon program tomorrow, Sunday, October 23, from 3pm - 4pm at the Stony Island Arts Bank where we will focus on two key works by prominent Black American artists nestled in the Glass Lantern Slides, a collection of more than 60,000 glass lantern slides acquired from the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. During the exploration, we will center these two important questions: How do the presences and absences of this collection tell us something about Black American and diasporic art and art history? How can we examine these omissions for what they tell us about how histories get institutionalized? 📸 by Sulyiman Stokes (@sulyiman_ )