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May Issue 2009
Weatherspoon
Art Museum in Greensboro, NC, Offers Art with a Message
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, is presenting the exhibition, Lest We Forget: The Voice of Art, on view through July 19, 2009.
In Spring 2005, the Weatherspoon mounted a small but compelling exhibition entitled Artists and Civil Rights. The exhibition, then organized by Curator of Exhibitions Ron Platt, helped to illustrate the breadth of the Weatherspoon's collection in an area that touches deeply upon our collective past.
Freedom, equality, and opportunity for all are core notions that artists today continue to value as important material for public discourse. New ideas about social, economic, and environmental equity, along with sustainable practices, are changing the way that education, science, and even design address what we consider to be the rights of all.
Within this context, Lest We Forget: The Voice of Art expands upon the original exhibition, both conceptually and through the inclusion of more recent acquisitions to the Weatherspoon collection. The exhibition is organized around four themes: Labor, Confronting Race, Politics & War, and Gestures of Hope.
From Alfred Stieglitz's 1911 photogravure The Steerage, which depicts the immigrant experience in the US, to Dawoud Bey's portrait of Barack Obama as a Senator, demonstrate the important role images play in documenting our world. Other works, such as Joyce Scotts' Boy with Gun, David Spear's photograph of vagabonds, and Waiting in Line, #21 by Anthony Hernandez speak to the inequities, prejudices and politics that are experienced for many people every day.
For further information
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at
336/334-5770 or visit (http://weatherspoon.uncg.edu).
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