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December Issue
2009
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 Tyrone 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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