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Cosmologies from the Tree of Life: Art from the African American South
When: Mondays-Sundays. Continues through Nov. 17 2019
"Housetop" - fractured medallion variation, 1977, Rita Mae Pettway (American, born 1941), corduroy. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund and partial gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2018.73
The exhibition features sculpture, quilting, painting, and works on paper, rooted in African aesthetic legacies, familial tradition, and communal ethos. Previously marginalized as “folk or self-taught” art, these artists now take their rightful place as important contributors to the canon of American modernism.
Price: Free
