• The Elliot Perry Collection - A Black History Month exhibition of the personal collection of former NBA player Elliot Perry. The month-long exhibition included works by Benny Andrews, Ernie barnes, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Buford Delany, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, William Tolliver, among others.
• A Claude Clark, Sr. Retrospective - A retrospective intended to honor Mr. Clark during his lifetime was scheduled for Autumn of the year of his Spring passing at age 86.
• I Could Have Saved Thousands More... - A Black History Month exhibition celebrating Harriet Tubman.
• For My People - A Black History Month exhibition featuring Margaret Walker's 1942 poem For My People.
• Literacy: Within Reach - A month-long exhibition of art works depicting efforts by Blacks to become literate; featuring several works by James Pate along with John Biggers, Kofi Bailey, Romare Bearden, William Tolliver, George Hunt, Brenda Joysmith, and many others.
• Remembering Senghor, Celebrating Senegal - A month-long exhibition of Leopold Sedar Senghor's Negritude poems with accompanying Lois Mailou Jones lithographs.
• Amandla! Reflections of South Africa - Commemorating the 10th anniversary of The Rebublic of South Africa. Exhibit included 1994 Associated Press photos of South Africa's Blacks queuing to vote, works by Ben Macala, Hargreaves Ntkuwana, Mongezi Gum, Usen Obot, and Fortune Sitole along with Ndebele dolls, and Brenda Joysmith's commissioned "Song for South Africa".
• Joysmith Gallery participates in the annual New York City National Black Fine Art Show held at the Puck Building. Joysmith Gallery has been privileged to exhibit:

2005 For 2005, Joysmith Gallery was privileged to offer works by John Biggers, Manuelita Brown, James Gayles, Brenda Joysmith, Keba Konte, Wosene Kosrof, Olu Oguibe, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, John Rozelle, Joe Sam., and Bakari Santos. Artnews.com included the work by Olu Oguibe in their review of 2005 National Black Fine Art Show highlights. Art Business News provided work by Joysmith Gallery artist Fred Mutebi (shown in 2004) in their exhibition calendar notation for the 2005 NBF AS.

2004   Joysmith Gallery was pleased to participate in the premier of Off The Main: Contemporary African, Caribbean, and Latin American Art held at the Puck Building in New York City during October 2004.

Joysmith Gallery's first showing at Off The Main: Contemporary African, Caribbean, and Latin American Art was to offer works by Victor Ekpuk of Nigeria, Antonio Carreno of Dominican Republic, Nestor Hernandez of Cuba, Lovemore Kambudzi of Zimbabwe, Wosene Kosrof of Ethiopia, Desmond McFarlane of Jamaica, Fred Mutebi of Uganda, Olu Oguibe of Nigeria, Jude Papaloko of Haiti, and Bakari Santos of Brazil.

Eyes Wide Open - Joysmith Gallery co-exhibited along with the National Civil Rights Museum the national traveling exhibition Eyes Wide Open: Beyond Fear - Towards Hope; which is an exhibition on the Iraq War developed by the American Friends Service Committee.

Nora's Life Gift Foundation, Inc . - Joysmith Gallery was pleased and privileged to host Memphis to Memphis, a fund raising benefit exhibition of contemporary Egyptian art for Nora's Home; which offers a place for patients and families to stay in Memphis while transplant medical care is being provided.

Commemorating the 200th anniversary of Haiti's Independence, Joysmith Gallery featured Jacob Lawrence's To Preserve Their Freedom and works by Renee Stout and Keba Konte; along with works by John Biggers, Claude Clark, Alan Rohan Crite, Brenda Joysmith, Lester Merriweather, Fred Mutebi, Clarissa Sligh, Dox Trash, and collectible wood and ivory works from Africa.

2003   Following its exhibition in the gallery in Memphis, Joysmith Gallery featured many of the works by Murry DePillars from the Hampton University Museum exhibit Beyond the Fixed Star along with John Biggers, 1930s Claude Clark carborundum etchings, Lois Mailou Jones, Brenda Joysmith, and Carrie Mae Weems.

2002   Joysmith Gallery's first showing at the NBFAS was to feature photographer Carrie Mae Weems and the 1960/70s political paintings by Claude Clark; along with works by John Biggers, Brenda Joysmith and first generation Shona sculptors Moses Masaya, Sylvester Mubayi, Henry Munyaradzi, and Joseph Ndandarika.

Special Exhibitions/Guests:

• Collecting Fine Art - As an adjunct to the exhibition of The Elliot Perry Collection, certified appraiser Ms. Robbie Lee, licensed by the American Society of Appraisers, held sessions on collecting, valuation, and insuring of fine art at Joysmith gallery.
• Claude Clark: Inventing as African Diaspora - Art historian David Driskell was invited by Joysmith Gallery to deliver a lecture at the Memphis Brooks Museum the morning of the afternoon opening of A Claude Clark Retrospective at Joysmith Gallery.
• Seoul to Soul - Contemporary Korean artists Youhnee Paik, Sook Jin Jo, and Wonsook Kim, as three of the five exhibited artists, provided a lecture on contemporary Korean art at the Memphis Downtown Marriott Hotel in conjunction with opening their Joysmith Gallery month-long exhibition. Select works were on exhibition at the Marriott during the gallery show.
• The Art of Murry DePillars - In conjunction with Joysmith Gallery's showing of the Hampton University Museum exhibit Beyond the Fixed Star, Dr. DePillars lectured at LeMoyne-Owen College to students and the public at the National Civil Rights Museum.
• Allan Rohan Crite - Joysmith Gallery hosted a private reception for 94 year old artist-reporter Allan Rohan Crite where his 1937 pen & ink drawings from The Spirituals as well as drawing from the 1930s through 1990s were exhibited.

Special Projects

• Joysmith Gallery co-curated the National Civil Rights Museum 2004 exhibition Brown vs Board of Education: 50 Years Later Artists Respond