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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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