{"id":5381,"date":"2005-02-01T13:38:14","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2024-07-03T14:46:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:46:36","slug":"black-history-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2005\/02\/01\/black-history-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural Center presents exhibition for Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A showing of work by Portland artist Daniel Minter will be on display at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College through Feb. 28 in an exhibition presented for Black History Month. “A Heavy Grace: Paintings and Sculpture” opens with a gallery reception featuring food and music from African American and Brazilian culinary traditions at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, in Chase Hall Gallery, Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College. The public is invited to attend the reception and the exhibit, both sponsored by the Multicultural Center, free of charge. Call 207-786-8376 for more information.<\/p>\n

Minter is a painter, sculptor, illustrator and arts educator whose work is steeped in the context of African American and African diaspora culture. The designer of the 2004 U.S. Postal Service Kwanza stamp, he is a noted illustrator of several children’s books.<\/p>\n

“Minter collects the implements, the figures, the cultural tools of Black experience in diaspora and gives them iconic status,” writes Latin American historian and theologian Rachel Harding. Says Harding: “Many of the figures in Minter\u2019s art are those of ordinary black life, especially of the mid-20th century rural south: hot combs and axes; straw brooms and jack-knives; snakes, jars and crows; round women, big men and long-limbed trees. Through his skilled gaze and carefully honed instinct, Minter elicits deeper meanings from the mundane.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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