KARA WALKER ALABAMA LOYALISTS GREETING THE FEDERAL GUN-BOATS.FROM HARPER’S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR (ANNOTATED), 2005 OFFSET LITHOGRAPHY AND SILKSCREEN SHEET: 39 X 53INCHES (99.1 X 134.6 CM) EDITION OF 35. COURTESY OF THE NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 2019.4.15 © KARA WALKER

The Frick Pittsburgh’s “Kara Walker Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)” exhibit of large silhouette images kicks off Saturday, March 1, with a day of activities, followed by additional events scheduled over the next few months.

The touring exhibit, which also opens on the first day of Women’s History Month, will run through May 25 at the Frick Art Museum in Point Breeze. Attendance is included in general admission; members are free.

Art enthusiasts may remember other images by Walker at the 1999-2000 Carnegie International in Oakland. The Frick display includes 15 large-scale prints that revisit the historical representations found in the 1866 publication “Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War” and overlays enlargements of woodcut plates with Kara Walker’s silkscreen cutout figures in solid black silhouette.

“In doing so, Kara Walker brings to light experiences of racism that were often omitted or merely hinted at in traditional historical narratives,” according to a Frick description of the exhibit.

Walker, 55, of New York, is considered one of the most prolific American artists of her generation. Her work in drawing, painting, text, shadow puppetry, film and sculpture, “leads viewers to a critical understanding of the past while also proposing an examination of contemporary racial and gender stereotypes,” according to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. She won a MacArthur Fellowship at age 28 in 1997.

“Kara Walker created ‘Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)’ in 2005, about a decade into her celebrated and promising career,” said Dawn R. Brean, Frick chief curator and director of collections, in a statement. “We are honored to show this series during its 20th anniversary, reemphasizing how Walker’s work continues to speak to where we are in the present moment as much as where we were in the past.”

Accompanying the exhibit are a group of original “Harper’s Weekly” engravings by 19th century American realist Winslow Homer (1846-1910), to offer opportunities to consider similarities and distinctions between past and present. Also included are four bound copies of “Harper’s Weekly” issues from the years of the Civil War, which were part of the Frick family’s library at Clayton.

“At the Frick, we are committed to examining history through a critical contemporary lens, and to sharing untold stories,” says Amanda Gillen, the Frick’s interim executive director, in a statement. “This exhibition by Kara Walker shines a light on the complexities of the Civil War, an era that profoundly shaped the Gilded Age. Bringing this exhibition to our Gilded Age historic site, lets us go a level deeper in understanding our history as an institution and as a nation.”

Special activities on Saturday, March 1, will run from 10 a.m. to 5. p.m., with a lecture by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, author of “Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker,” from 2 to 3 p.m. on the topic: “Kara Walker, Winslow Homer, Blackness, & AI.” The lecture is free with advance registration.

Also on that day, from 10 a.m. to 1:30, there will be a Creative Collage Altered Books Activity in which children’s books will be examined in a new perspective.

There also will be two In-Gallery talks: assistant curator Lauryn Smith will discuss the illustrations by Winslow Homer at 11:30 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m., Brean will explore what she describes as the evocative art of the silhouette.

KARA WALKER EXODUS OF CONFEDERATES FROM ATLANTA. FROM HARPER’S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR (ANNOTATED), 2005 OFFSET LITHOGRAPHY AND SILK SCREEN SHEET: 39X53 INCHES (99.1 X 134.6 CM) EDITION OF 35. COURTESY OF THE NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 2019. 4.12 © KARA WALKER

Starting March 5, gallery conversations will be held about the exhibit at 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays through the end of the exhibit.

Among other related activities:

Saturday, March 29, 4 p.m.: “Echoes: An Evening of Music with KEA,” an artist who will weave together music, poetry and visual elements to reflect on the legacy of racial history in America. She will be joined by musicians on drums and guitar to perform iconic African American songs, original verse and rhythmic percussion. Advance registration and tickets are required.

Wednesday, April 16 and Wednesday, May 7, 6 and 6:30 p.m.: Guided tour of the exhibit. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

Thursday, April 24, 7 p.m.: Book Talk: Edda Fields-Black will discuss her recent book: “COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War.” Fields-Black is a professor in the Department of History and the Director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Tickets required.

Saturday, May 17, 1– 3:30 p.m. Hill Dance Academy Theatre Performance on Remake Learning Day. Near the close of the exhibit, youth dancers from Hill Dance Academy Theatre will bring silhouettes and ideas from the exhibition. Free.

For a full schedule and ticket info, go to www.thefrickpittsburgh.org.