The Studio Museum in Harlem is having its grand reopening on Saturday and a work by Little Rock artist Aj Smith will be among those on display at the 57-year-old New York institution of Black culture.

"American Dream Series," a 2025 silverpoint drawing by Smith, is part of the exhibition "From the Studio: Fifty-Eight Years of Artists in Residence," which is among several shows, commissions and installations celebrating the museum's new $160 million, 82,000-square-foot building at 144 W. 125th St.

The Artist-in-Residence program has been a part of the museum since it was founded by a group of artists and philanthropists above a liquor store in 1968. "From the Studio" focuses on many of those who participated in the residency over the decades and gathers newly commissioned works on paper,

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