March 17, 2021
Reckoning: Grief and Light
A multisensory installation of sculpture by Artist-in-Residence Vanessa German explores the capacity of museums to function as spaces of public reckoning. Three altarpieces created as an elegy to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, and other lives lost at the hands of police, accompanied by selections from a contemporary symphony inspired by the history of Africans enslaved on rice plantations, compose an immersive experience that offers a meditation on grief, love, and social healing.
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