Date: Thursday, December 11, 2025
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Location: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Join in as vocalist Nedelka Prescod offers a musical opening to a discussion of the Black woman in Christian iconography. Crite’s celebration of the everyday woman, in tandem with his deep faith, led him to contribute beautiful and affecting imagery to the centuries-long tradition of the Black Madonna. Taking inspiration from Visions of Black Madonnas in the Fenway Gallery, this program examines that history from the Black Glass Madonna of 1500s Europe acquired by Isabella Stewart Gardner to Crite’s images of Mary as a Black mother on public transportation.