"Parades were big entertainment for us as kids, perhaps because my family is from the West Indies. We never missed a single one! The parade idea came from wanting to expose the avant-garde to the largest number of Black people I could find at one time—that was it." —Lorraine O'Grady "Lorraine O'Grady: Art Is…" debuted at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 2015, some thirty years following the artist and cultural critic's original performance of "Art Is…". Composed of forty color slides taken by various people who witnessed O'Grady's landmark display on Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in 1983, the images capture the energy and spirit of the now historic performance and remind us that art can be everywhere, and is for everyone. — Lorraine O'Grady (b. 1934), "Art Is... (Girlfriends Times Two)", 1983. Chromogenic color print in 40 parts, 16 × 20 in. The Studio Museum in Harlem; bequest of Peggy Cooper Cafritz (1947–2018), Washington, D.C. collector, educator, and activist #Stu...