Tangible Spirit: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art
Tangible Spirit was an exhibition of 35 works of art from the PFF Collection that span a broad history of time and talent. Each artist was inspired from the lived they lvied and now live. Each life is or was a complex amalgam of intangible sensibilities and experiences. These experiences were the generative catalyst for their art; the tangible, irrepressible spirit of Americans of African descent. The overlay between language and mentality here is very tangible. Historically, America omitted African Americans from cultural worth and for scores of decades, fully human status. As a result, we occupy an ephemeral domain in American culture. We are still omitted in many ways. It still is not wholly accepted that we are the dominant cultural component of the dynamic tapestry that is the post-European American experience. We are seen and unseen. We are perpetual spirit.
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