{"id":159922,"date":"2022-02-07T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=159922"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:28:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T21:28:45","slug":"high-profile-show-brings-african-american-art-to-umw-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2022\/02\/07\/high-profile-show-brings-african-american-art-to-umw-2\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Profile Show Brings African-American Art to UMW"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_159867\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159867\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-159867\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/PFF425_Ronald-Jackson_She-Sang-a-Song_temp-image_web-256x300.jpg\" alt='Ronald Jackson: \"She Sang a Song No One Would Hear.\" Oil on Canvas.' width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/PFF425_Ronald-Jackson_She-Sang-a-Song_temp-image_web-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/PFF425_Ronald-Jackson_She-Sang-a-Song_temp-image_web.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-159867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronald Jackson: &ldquo;She Sang a Song No One Would Hear.&rdquo; Oil on Canvas.<\/p><\/div><p>Sophomore Lauryn Taylor sees a bit of herself in a new exhibit at the University of Mary Washington Galleries.<\/p><p>&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t seen many works of art featuring someone who looks like me,&rdquo; Taylor said of a piece featuring a full-figured Black woman in&nbsp;<em>Healing Through the Preservation of Our Histories and Our Selves,&nbsp;<\/em>on view at Ridderhof Martin and duPont galleries through March 24. &ldquo;It means so much that a painting like that is &hellip; being shown to everyone.&rdquo;<\/p><p>Taylor, a studio art and marketing major, is among Mary Washington students who &ndash; along with faculty, staff and community members &ndash; had a hand in selecting pieces for the galleries&rsquo; new high-profile exhibit. The show features a collection of works by renowned contemporary African-American artists &ndash; Faith Ringgold, Jacob Lawrence, Theaster Gates, Kara Walker, Sonya Clark and nearly two dozen others &ndash; on loan from the Petrucci Family Foundation (PFF).<\/p><p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re so fortunate to be able to offer our students a curatorial experience like this,&rdquo; Department of Art and Art History Chair Jon McMillan said, &ldquo;and to bring artwork of such a high caliber to the Fredericksburg community.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2022\/02\/03\/high-profile-show-brings-african-american-art-to-umw\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore Lauryn Taylor sees a bit of herself in a new exhibit at the University of Mary Washington Galleries.&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t seen many works of art featuring someone who looks like me,&rdquo; Taylor said of a piece featuring a full-figured Black woman in&nbsp;Healing Through the Preservation of Our Histories and Our Selves,&nbsp;on view at Ridderhof Martin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28590,"featured_media":159867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[908],"class_list":["post-159922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-whats-new-umw","tag-umw-galleries","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}