Phantom Gallery in Ramstein Germany

This is a space I'm considering for a phantom gallery project.

There are several other closed art galleries in the Village of Ramstein.

Simba Mediterranean Gallery

I ventured into the Ramstein-Miesenbach Museum, which is currently hosting a special exhibition, "African American Civil Rights in Germany," until July 19.

"Afroamerikanische GIs und Deutschland", "African American GIs and Germany".
The exhibition chronicles the little-known history of African American GIs' experiences in Germany and the significance of their deployment to the advancement of the civil rights movement in the US. It presents the first results of a joint research initiative of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY), and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) at the University of Heidelberg in co-operation with the DOCU Center Ramstein.

Sometimes in life, one comes full circle. I remember, in 1971, being a high school student, going underground to attend meetings that supported the Black Panther Party. We circulated petitions to free Angela Davis, a Fresno farmer who put up his farm to make her bail. That was my indoctrination into the Pan-African Peoples Revolutionary Party and into activism. The exhibition also highlights the Black Panther Movement in Germany, the freeing of the Ramstein 2, with posters and black-and-white photos of key Panther members.

www.aacvr-germany.org