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
A Norfolk native s captivating drawings of his hometown are the subject of Home at the Chrysler
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Telfair s Boxed In/Break Out offers spotlight for Chatham artists to wider arts world
Rob Hessler
On the ground floor of the eastern side of the Jepson Center there are six consecutive large windows. Each year, they display the work of a single Chatham County artist via the museum’s Boxed In/Break Out program and is part of their larger #art912 initiative, designed to bring awareness to local creatives.
The submission process for the 2021 incarnation is now open.
“Boxed In/Break Out started out as a response to a question: How can we activate more spaces in the Jepson Center?” explained Telfair Museums Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Erin Dunn.