GALLERIES

The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and Harvard's Afro-American Studies department have collaborated to produce Kindred Spirits, the African Diaspora. Ten black artists, from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and Brazil are exhibiting in the show, which was organized by E. Barry Gaither, the Museum's curator and an instructor in the Afro-American Studies department here. The purpose of the exhibit is to show the similarity of themes and styles used by Black artists around the world, and through them to make a statement on the kinship of Black people. The show will be at the Museum, 122 Elm Hill Avenue in Dorchester, through Dec. 8.

Baker Library at the Business School is hosting an exhibition of Indian portraits from the McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians. Thomas L. McKenney was Superintendent of Indian Affairs under Presidents Madison, Monroe, Adams and Jackson, and fulfilled his duties by having portraits painted of all the Indian delegations who came to visit him in Washington. These are lithographic copies of the originals, which were destroyed by fire in 1865. Now through Dec. 20..

Also: "Art to Wear by Various Artists" at the Evolution Gallery, 142 Newbury St. Sculpture by Andre Derain and Graphics by Henri Matisse at the Pucker/Safrai Gallery, 171 Newbury St.. Paintings by Dan Rosenbluth '75 pottery by the staff of the Radcliffe Pottery Studio at Ticknor Library, Boylston Hall, through Dec. 20 And, finally, "Wish you Were Here" a history of the Picture Postcard (In my hometown, stores used to sell postcards of Alcatraz with that choice phrase in yellow script on the front) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St. in Boston, through Jan.4.