The Collective was a group of younger artists who orbited around the significant force that was Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007). Comprising Vusumuzi Maduna, Aukram Burton, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Paul Goodnight, Reginald Leo Jackson, Susan Thompson, Lotus Do, Weeta Lopes, and Johnetta Tinker, the Collective formed a multi-generational, multi-cultural supportive network that thrived on the Boston scene in the 1980s. These artists gained regional, national, and international visibility, culminating with a major exhibition in China in 1986.
Learn more about the group in the lecture, From Local to Global: The Boston Collective, delivered at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 4, 2024, LINK HERE.
Essay, “The Boston Collective: Assembled at the Right Time and Place,” published in the Boston Art Review, Issue 12, Some Assembly Required, May 2024.
Image: The Boston Collective. (left to right) Aukram Burton, Vusumuzi Maduna, Reginald Leo Jackson, Paul Goodnight, Susan Thompson, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, and Allan Rohan Crite. Photo courtesy of Aukram Burton
Martina Tanga 