Freeman Vines' Guitars to Be Shown at Turner Contemporary in the UK!

Turner Contemporary in Margate has revealed details of a new exhibition intended to shed light on the “little-known history” of work by African-American makers, whose creative outputs were influenced by the US Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.  

Opening in February 2020, “We Will Walk—Art and Resistance in the American South” includes paintings, sculptural assemblages, and quilts ranging in date from the mid-20th century through the present day. All of the artists either hail from Alabama or one of its surrounding states, which together comprise a subregion of the US popularly known as the Deep South—long a hotbed of race relations and civil-rights resistance.  Read the entire article via artnet news - here.