James Powers, a medical supply salesman, had always loved art and when he was laid off in his early 40s, he realized he could focus on that passion, and teach others about it, too. So he opened the Spiral Gallery in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
He named his gallery in honor of the Spiral Group, the short-lived collective of Black artists formed in the early 1960s by Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis and Hale Woodruff to tackle issues both political and aesthetic. His gallery wasn't a political space, but in the late 1980s and early '90s it became a community for Black artists and art-lovers, a rollicking festival of culture with monthly openings that spilled out onto Vanderbilt Avenue.
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James Powers, a medical supply salesman, had always loved art and when he was laid off in his early 40s, he realized he could focus [...]
