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January Issue 2010

Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC, Features Mural by Tyrone Geter

The Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC, is displaying a large-scale mural gifted to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center by Tyrone Geter. The mural is on view in the Museum's Bank of America Garden Terrace through Jan. 17, 2010, and can be seen for free during open hours, Wednesday through Sunday.

In partnership with Benedict College, a historically black college in Columbia, SC, the Columbia Museum of Art presents the large-scale mural, Look Beneath the Surface, conceived and painted by Geter, before it goes to its permanent home at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH.

Artist and Benedict College art professor and gallery director Geter painted the 8 x 12-foot mural that was commissioned by the college as a gift to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati. The school's leaders wanted South Carolinians to see it before the gift goes to its permanent home in Cincinnati.

The mural depicts scenes from domestic and global issues of modern-day human bondage. Geter's goal is for viewers to go beyond the appreciation for the art and see the underlying issues of contemporary worldwide bondage. In particular, the mural brings to the forefront an awareness of bondage issues primarily of children and women of the world.

The Museum's executive director, Karen Brosius says, "We are pleased to collaborate with Benedict College and Tyrone Geter to give this opportunity to provide a wonderful educational experience to our many visitors and school children." 
 
This is Professor Geter's second mural at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - a museum that tells the story of enslaved people's journey to freedom through a secret network of escape routes that came to be called "the Underground Railroad." Five years ago Geter completed another large-scale mural depicting historical slavery scenes that was conceived by his friend and former University of South Carolina art professor Tom Feelings, who died of cancer before he could complete the project.

For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at 803/799-2810 or visit (www.columbiamuseum.org).

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