Fisk University Galleries
Carl Van Vechten Art Gallery
Located at the corner of DB Todd Jr Blvd and Jackson St (click here for map)
Monday-Friday 10am-4pm
Closed Fisk University holidays (click here for Fisk University academic calendar)
Aaron Douglas Gallery
Located on the third floor of the John Hope and Aurelia Elizabeth Franklin Library (click here for map)
Open during Franklin Library opening hours
Also see our Aaron Douglas murals, located on the second floor of the Cravath Hall administrative building (click here for map)
The murals are available for viewing during business hours (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm)
Closed Fisk University holidays (click here for Fisk University academic calendar)
Fisk's Special Collections
The collections serve the research needs of Fisk students and faculty as well as external scholars.
Among the rare items there are:
•The American edition of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
•Examples of Benjamin Banneker’s almanacs
•A bible especially edited for slaves in the West Indies in 1808
•Clotel, or The President’s Daughter (1853), the first novel published by an African-American
•A bible presented to President Abraham Lincoln by free blacks of Baltimore in 1864
