Beginning on July 28, Milwaukee’s Charles Allis Art Museum will host “Ghosts of Segregation: America’s Continuing Struggle,” a traveling photography exhibition that explores the lingering presence of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism hidden in everyday American architecture.

Through his visual work, Washington state-based photographer Richard Allen Frishman demonstrates how the built environmental stand as a witness to history. From the New Orleans Slave Exchange to the abandoned Negro Nursing School in Houston, the shocking nature of Frishman’s images reveals insidious evidence of segregation and historic racism.

“Jim Crow not only extended across America, but it also became part of everyday life in communities across the country. Our architecture – built environment – is society’s autobiography writ large,” said Frishman in a statement.

We love to see museums hosting these types of empathetic exhibits, as well as reckoning with American architecture in this way. Have you seen this evidence in your area?

The Empathetic Museum. [@empatheticmuseum] (July 29, 2022). “Beginning on July 28, Milwaukee’s Charles Allis Art Museum will host “Ghosts of Segregation: America’s Continuing Struggle,” [4 Image Slideshow]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/empatheticmuseum/p/CgmobXurjGB/?img_index=1