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The changing of dates of a four-city survey, purportedly due to the artist’s Ku Klux Klan motifs, caused uproar in 2020. Now, after a curatorial rethink, the first exhibition is set to open
The museum is among a number of state institutions that have made moves to adhere to newly updated federal guidelines to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which require “informed consent” from affiliated tribal representatives before exhibiting or doing research on cultural items.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art is hosting the Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina exhibit until Jan. 7.
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, now on view at UMMA in Ann Arbor, MI, is a landmark exhibition celebrating the ingenuity, perseverance, and lived experience of Black potters in the decades surrounding the Civil War.
It is good to remind ourselves that for every demagogue, tyrant, or dictator, their most fierce adversaries are the free thinkers, artists, writers, poets, and other creatives. We should also be reminded that painting, being the oldest form of human expression, long before the invention of language, has held an unusual and sustaining power to reflect directly or indirectly our perpetual struggles among ourselves while providing healing agencies through the artists’ inner impulses, guided by their ideals of truth that are opened to constant self-corrections without fear from others.