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    Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum

    Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum

    Dixon Gallery and Gardens

    August 10-October 12, 2008

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    This exhibition highlights complex and vibrant quilts, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by contemporary African American artists. It explores through the American Folk Art Museum's rich holdings the range of artistic expressions by self-taught African American artists from the rural South and the urban North. Comprising approximately nine quilts and nearly thirty works of art in various media, "Ancestry and Innovation" includes paintings by and elder generation of creators, such as David Butler, Sam Doyle, Bessie Harvey, and Clementine Hunter; works by contemporary masters such as Thorton Dial Sr.; and provocative pieces by emerging artists such as Kevin Sampson and Willie LeRoy Elliot. Juxtaposed with richly patterned and graphically exciting quilts, the exhibition celebrates the ongoing contribution of black artists to the kaleidoscope of American cultural and visual experience.

    • Ticket Info

      Tickets: Dixon members admitted FREE at all times.
      Adults: $7
      Seniors ages 65 and over: $5
      Students ages 18 and older with ID: $5
      Children ages 7 - 17: $3
      Children ages 6 and under: FREE
      Saturdays 10 a.m. - noon: FREE
      Groups of 10 or more: $5 each
      School groups with advance registration: FREE

    • Dates & Times

      Dates:
      August 10-October 12, 2008

      Times:
      Closed Mondays
      Tuesday - Friday: 10 am - 4 pm
      Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm
      Sunday: 1 - 5 pm
      Saturday: 10 am - noon: FREE
      Open late on the 3rd Thursday of the month

    • Venue Info

      Dixon Gallery and Gardens

      4339 Park Avenue Memphis, TN 38117

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