Renaissance, Race, and Representation in the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art presents a wide-ranging examination of how Black artists negotiated classical ideals of beauty, proportion, and humanism while responding to the racial realities of their time. Spanning the Harlem Renaissance through the postwar and Civil Rights eras, the exhibition foregrounds artists who engaged the visual languages of the Renaissance and modernism to claim artistic authority and cultural legacy within Western art history. The exhibition features works by Ron Adams, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Hilda Wilkerson Brown, Aimé Césaire, Jacob Lawrence, William Pajaud and more. Together, their works demonstrate how African American artists adapted figuration, narrative, and symbolism to assert Black humanity, intellectual rigor, and historical continuity.