December 12, 2020 – November 28, 2021 | Cargill Gallery | Free Exhibition Enter the Exhibition “We as a people of Africa have a story to tell about a journey of four hundred years here in America.” – Joe Minter“ In the Presence of Our Ancestors: Southern Perspectives in African American Art” brings together methods of visual storytelling and ancestral memory through the individual practices of artists from the “Black Belt” region of the American South—a term that refers to the region’s black soil, as well as the legacies of African Americans who shaped its social and agrarian culture. Spanning from Louisiana to Florida, and the mid-20th century to the present, the artists highlighted in this exhibition document rural life and traditions of metalwork, funerary and yard art, and quilt making
Here, we witness an evolution of regional artistic practice, as raw materials and