![]() ![]() The Souls Grown Deep Foundation has initiated a grant program to fund internships for undergraduate students of color. A comprehensive catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Cassel Oliver said that these corduroy materials especially spoke to her and led her to choose them for their textures, subtle colors and significance. Thirteen quilts were chosen from the Gee’s Bend quiltmakers, many made from corduroy acquired by quilters participating in the Freedom Quilting Bee cooperative who contracted with Sears Roebuck. Twenty-one paintings, sculptures and drawings by Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, Jesse Aaron, James “Son Ford” Thomas and Purvis Young are represented. The 34 art works that the museum acquired by gift-purchase from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation last year are the basis for this exhibition organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, who selected these works for the museum. Cosmologies from the Tree of Life: Art from the African American South opens at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond on June 8 and will be on view until November 17, 2019. ![]()
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