African Art: Power and Identity and Cash Crop
Time & Place
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Peninsula Fine Arts Center
January 19 - April 28, 2019
101 Museum Drive
Newport News, VA 23606 -
Phone: 757-596-8175
Highway Exit: 258A from I-64
Website: Click here to visit us online
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Peninsula Fine Arts Center
Description
The event commemorates the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans to Virginia with African artworks including textiles, masks, pottery, jewelry, and “Cash Crop,” a piece composed of 15 life-sized casts representing the 15 million African people brought to the New World.
The event commemorates the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans to Virginia with African artworks including textiles, masks, pottery, jewelry, and “Cash Crop,” a piece composed of 15 life-sized casts representing the 15 million African people brought to the New World.