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PAA funding will support the exhibition Barbara T. Smith: The Way To Be on view from February to July 2023 which examines the first fifty years of the artist’s life, marked by dramatic upheavals in her personal life, as well as the development of her most pioneering works, such as her Xerox pieces and early performances.