|
Contact:
Dan Carpenter
(325) 673-4587
Marketing@thegracemuseum.org
Folk art exhibit opens in Grace Museum Main Gallery
Abilene , TX
(December 28, 2006) - A unique exhibit of African
American folk art opens January 13 in The Grace Museum's Main
Gallery.
Creatures Great
and Small: Folk Art from the African American Museum , Dallas
, is a collection of more than 100 works of art by 25
African American artists.
"These contemporary
(and primarily Texan) folk artists are dreamers or visionary
artists," according to information from the African American
Museum, Dallas web site. "They are self-taught intuitive
people who find their own way into the making of art in an
intensely personal way. This exhibition reminds us that the
work of self-taught artists continues to offer unlimited opportunities
for discovery, and assures us that folk art is here to stay
as a viable and influential movement within the history of
contemporary art."
A special members-only
reception is scheduled for Friday, January 12, and the official
opening for the exhibit is the following day. Creatures
Great and Small will be on exhibit in The Grace's Main
Gallery through April 28.
A Gallery Talk is
also scheduled for Thursday, February 22. The guest speaker
will be Philip Collins, Curator of Art for the African American
Museum, Dallas.
The exhibit is generously
sponsored by the Greathouse Foundation, United Supermarkets,
and Paul Johnson & Associates, Commercial Real Estate.
The Grace Museum
is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; and
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. every Thursday. Admission is free Thursday
evening after 5 p.m.
For more information,
please call Dan Carpenter at 325-673-4587.
###
|
