If there's a major new museum show of African-American art in town, it must be February.

One modern art course, for example, would incorporate African-American art.

The museum was founded when the mainstream wasn't paying attention to African-American art.

Two workshops will be offered on African-American folk art.

Other facets of the collection include African-American art and Texas painting.

African-American art and culture also grew a lot during the Harlem Renaissance.

The museum, a $33 million project, will house one of the nation's most extensive collections of African-American art, artifacts and history.

Occasionally, private collectors of African-American art donate works to universities or other institutions that seem able to catalog and display them.

It complements the current exhibition of African-American Art of the 90's.

In the world of contemporary African-American art, which is fiercely divided on issues of black self-representation, these are fighting words.