‘Autumn Of Grace’ Art Exhibit being held for Black History Month
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. — With February not only being the month of love but also Black History, a local city is celebrating with a new exhibit.
The City of Brownsville had local artists participate in this year’s Black History Month Art Exhibit titled Autumn of Grace. It is being held in Brownsville City Hall.
“Part of an overall national exhibit. It’s been touring since 2013. We just happen to have a display here in today in city hall right here in Brownsville with a local artist, with local women of color who have been pillars in our community that have guided and molded me as a child and as a young man and still supporting me today,” said Brownsville Mayor Bill Rawls.
Aside from the photographs capturing Black women of the community, it also features authentic artifacts from different countries of Africa.
“We are hoping that children – Black, white, doesn’t matter – that children will come through, see this, be inspired by it. Be inspired by people that they know, many of them are related to them, but we also hope they will look at the artifacts that come from Africa,” said John D. Ashworth, a member of the Board of Directors Dunbar Carver.
The pictures show women from 2013 who were 85 and up.
Alumni from the once-segregated George Washington Carver High School made it possible for this event to happen.
“It speaks to the fact that Brownsville as a community has came a long way. It has a great future ahead of it. Think that is also genuinely fact that people in Brownsville and Haywood County working together,” Ashworth said.
This exhibit will be on display throughout February from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.
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