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Northeastern University Tells African-American Artists Group To Vacate Studio Space

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Artist-in-residence Marlon Forrester, left, shows photojournalist Don West and writer Askia Touré his set of keys which will no longer unlock the front door of the 76 Atherton St. warehouse where AAMARP is located. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Artist-in-residence Marlon Forrester, left, shows photojournalist Don West and writer Askia Touré his set of keys which will no longer unlock the front door of the 76 Atherton St. warehouse where AAMARP is located. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

A group of African-American artists have been told by Northeastern University that they must vacate their studios by July 13. The African-American Master Artists-in-Residence Program, or AAMARP, is a forty-year-old black arts collective that is a part of Northeastern's Department of African American Studies.

The group has used the studio space for more than thirty years. Over the weekend, artists from the group say they were locked out of the facility. Both sides say they hope for an amicable solution to be reached.

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Maria Garcia, WBUR's reporter for The ARTery. She tweets @mariareports.

This segment aired on July 2, 2018.

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