Healing through the Preservation of Our Histories and Ourselves: University of Mary Washington

The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art was pleased to have loaned over 30 works to the Ridderhof Martin and duPont Galleries at the University of Mary Washington (UMW). Healing Through the Preservation of Our Histories and Our Selves was co-curated by a cohort of UMW students, faculty, and community members. This cohort collaboratively planned an exhibition approach that encourages reflection, healing, and regrouping after enduring several years of national tension that filtered down to their community. From a portrait series that unpacks childhood trauma and radical forgiveness to a quilt that’s grounded in ancestral traditions, these works call on us to contemplate all that we’ve endured and how we can move forward as a stronger community.

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