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November Issue 2005
Columbia College in Columbia, SC, Offers Works by Pat Musick & Jerry Carr
The Columbia College Department of Art will
present an exhibit entitled, Yokes on the Trail of Tears: The
Journey of an Installation, featuring sculpture by Arkansas
installation artist Pat Musick and photography of Musick's work
by her husband, Jerry Carr. The exhibit will be on view from Nov.
1 through Dec. 7, 2005, in the Goodall Gallery.
The original installation was inspired by the 1838 forced relocation
of the Cherokees from their native homeland in the American Southeast
to Oklahoma, a 1000-mile trek during the dead of winter which
many did not survive. The path of the journey is now known
as the Trail of Tears.
Musick's work consisted of five "yoke" sculptures that combined oak, wood, steel, and native Ozark Sandstone. As the work traveled through 22 stops along the Benge Route across northern Arkansas - the actual route taken by some of the Cherokees - Musick's husband photographed the journey. Each photograph is accompanied by a poem written by Musick in the voice of a young Cherokee mother making the difficult trip to the unknown.
Columbia College, founded in 1854 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church, is a private, liberal arts, women's college with a coeducational Evening College and Graduate school. The College has been ranked by US News & World Report since 1994 as one of the top comprehensive undergraduate colleges in the South. Enrollment is 1500 students from 23 states and 20 countries.
The public is also invited to an artist's gallery talk on Nov. 10, 2005, from 6:30-8 p.m, in the Goodall Gallery.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call Sally Jenkins Harm at 803/786.3649 or e-mail at (sjenkinsharm@colacoll.edu).
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