Icons of the Civil Rights Movement

Monday, February 08, 2010

8:00 AM

Location: Sarly Interfaith Unity Gallery, Wilson Chapel

through April 11, 2010

This exhibition of the work of artist Pamela Chatterton-Purdy was inspired by a lifetime’s involvement with the American Civil Rights Movement. It was organized in 2008 to mark the 40th year since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. That year the exhibition traveled that entire year to over 20 Colleges, Universities and schools. The exhibition is free and open to the public daily.

A free public opening reception with the artist will be held on February 9, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, concurrently with an opening reception for A Narrative of Life and Glory, on view in the Meetinghouse Gallery.

Most of the works in Icons of the Civil Rights Movement were created in a few months in 2008. Chatterton-Purdy used oils, gold leaf, and handmade paper and wooden frames from a local dump near her Cape Cod home. The subjects include Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Emmett Till, and other figures from the Civil Rights era.

Icons of the Civil Rights Movement has previously been seen at schools and colleges throughout New England, including Brandeis University’s Intercultural Center, Gordon College, and the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University. In January 2009, the exhibtiion was on display in Washington DC for the Inauguration of the first African American President Barack Obama.  It continues to be exhibited into 2010.

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