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Installation from the exhibition "When Civilizations Heal" (Image by Carlos Hernandez, courtesy of the artist, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, and Project for Empty Space)
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Helina Metaferia
Crown (Nigist), 2025
Velvet and brass with etching
8.25 x 9 x 9 inches
HM102
Copyright The Artist
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Bibliography: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs, and Prints Division • Lyon, R., “Desegregate Woodfield Road School, Malverne, NY,” 1960. • Unknown photographer, “Human Dignity for Hospital...
Bibliography:
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs, and Prints Division
• Lyon, R., “Desegregate Woodfield Road School, Malverne, NY,” 1960.
• Unknown photographer, “Human Dignity for Hospital Workers,” undated.
• Unknown photographer, “Lane Bryant Office Workers on Strike,” July 18, 1946.
• Unknown photographer, “Picket Line, Smiling,” April 23, 1947.
• Unknown photographer, “Picket Labor Union,” 1948.
• Unknown photographer, “Picketing Dept of Welfare,” August 1949.
• Unknown photographer, “Picketing Grant’s,” April 27, 1954.
• Unknown photographer, “The Better Press League Picketing the New York Amsterdam News,” 1944.
Exhibitions
Syntropy. 21 Nov.-20 Dec. 2025, Praise Shadows Art Galley, Brookline, MA.When Civilizations Heal. 6 May-17 Aug. 2025, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ.

