In Kansas City, there is a wonderful internationally-known art museum called the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, https://www.nelson-atkins.org/. When you are in Kansas City, take a day and spend it there.  Visiting the museum in the early summer of 2022, with the sole intention of viewing the small collection of the artist Thomas Hart Benton, (TBH).  I love THB because his art captures a time in US history that is revealing and portends the changes coming to the United States in the late nineteen thirties, forties, fifties, and sixties in art, music, uplifting the voiceless and growing the middle-class

Next to the THB exhibition, Anthony High had a small exhibition of his art, and I fell in love immediately with his work. I realized Anthony’s work also was capturing and portending how the black diaspora was changing in the United States. Anthony is a Black Historian. Capturing history not in words but in the visual arts; in paint, and collagraphs. Anthony’s collagraphs have a contour and an edge much like the black diaspora’s determination for racial equality. His paintings are colorful, refined, and uplifting. His art employs cues to draw your eyes to a visual historical feast.  The theme of all of Anthony’s work is” Black History is American History”. Anthony’s visual history is elaborative and gives context to a history that is deeper and more dimensional than words can possibly capture.