/PRNewswire/ Where Art Can Occur (WACO) Theater Center will celebrate five years of service with the 5th annual Wearable Art Gala this Saturday, October 22,.
In dialogue with historical work from the Carter’s collection, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and others to mark Emancipation Proclamation milestone in "Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation."
IN A SMALL GALLERY on the second floor of Virginia’s Hampton University Museum hangs Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Banjo Lesson. A young boy sits in the lap of his grandfather, learning to play the titular instrument, the pair surrounded by the evidence of life lived: clothes hung in the background, a loaf of bread and a white pitcher on a table, cooking pots at their feet. Color and shadow blend exquisitely to create a subtle glow that is cast onto the pair together at the fireside.Tanner is widely regarded as the most important Black American artist of the nineteenth century, and this 1893 oil