The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, founded in 1987, owns and exhibits a vital collection of nearly 7,000 works of art, artifacts and popular culture objects that document the experience, expressions and history of people of African descent in America.

The Amistad Center is an independently incorporated and managed not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization, located in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

OUR MISSION:

We celebrate art and culture influenced by people of African descent through education, scholarship and social experiences.

OUR VISION:

Minds are opened, lives are changed.