All Day – All Night, The Angels Watching Over Me
SPOKE presents
All Day – All Night, The Angels Watching Over Me
Select Collaborative Works of Allan Rohan Crite and Susan Thompson
September 8, 2025 – January 30, 2026
Reception Thursday, September 18th 6-8pm
Hybrid Gallery Talk (Zoom & in-person) Thursday, September 18th, 6:30pm
Please visit www.spokeart.org to register to attend the Gallery Talk via online/Zoom
Gallery Hours by Appointment (Please email at least two days in advance- info@spokeart.org)
Spoke Gallery is honored to present, All Day – All Night, The Angels Watching Over Me-Select Collaborative Works of Allan Rohan Crite and Susan Thompson. The acclaimed and revered visual artist Allan Rohan Crite, who passed away in 2007 at the age of 97, helped Thompson develop as an artist from the late 70’s until the early 90’s. Her first studio was in his multistory brown-stone home on Columbus Avenue in Boston’s South End neighborhood. He considered himself Thompson’s “launching pad into the world of art.” Crite’s home was also his studio, a gathering place for the African-American artist community, and a warm welcoming place for those wanting to do good in the world. The first floor of his home also housed the offices of Mel King’s Rainbow Coalition Party1. Crite was a deeply spiritual person and the subject matter of many of his artworks reflect this. He was inspired by African American Spirituals, and the title of this show, according to Thompson, “is taken from one of the African American Spirituals.” The title of the show also underscores how Crite is still inspiring and watching over Thompson.