Dr. Maya Angelou Monument Update!

Last month the SFAC’s Visual Arts Committee unanimously approved my updated design for “Portrait of a Phenomenal Woman”, a monument to honor Dr. Maya Angelou. Now the fabrication process begins. WHAT A JOURNEY! Much GRATITUDE for everyone’s support!

'Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Euretta F. Adair)' on view at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture

Gifted to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture by Cheryl and Charles Ward, Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Euretta F. Adair) is on view in Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience. The exhibition tells stories of injustice, resistance and courage—and looks at the ways in which visual art has long provided its own protest, commentary, escape and perspective for African Americans. The portrait is based on the mugshot taken after her arrest on February 21, 1956 for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Also presented through Smithsonian Hi—a digital museum experience that allows visitors to engage with museum objects beyond the physical museum.

Source: https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2021.5...

'Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Lottie Green Varner)' Included in the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum's 'The Outwin: American Portraiture Today'

Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Lottie Green Varner) was included in the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum’s The Outwin: American Portraiture Today community-sourced audio guide, Interpreted by Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond, poet, performer, educator, public intellectual, arts organizer, and entrepreneur based in the St. Louis Metro East. The audio guide was created by St. Louis community members and Washington University colleagues to accompany the exhibition The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum from September 10, 2021, to January 23, 2022. Reflecting the interests and insights of our community, the recordings consist of responses by eleven contributors in their own words, each addressing an artwork of their choosing from the exhibition. With a variety of approaches—formal, personal, creative, academic—these reflections democratize the interpretation of the artworks and provide multiple access points for viewing them.

Source: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f6541...