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Highlights Tour // Calling All Ancestors
PriceFree
September 25, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Black Diamond, 2007, Radcliffe Bailey (American, born 1968), military blankets, felt, wool, Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Aardt Foundation in honor of Mayor William A. Bell, Sr. AFI.497.2012a-b © Radcliffe Bailey. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Honoring and celebrating the dead is a common practice in many cultures.
Join Angela May, Associate Director of Learning and Engagement, as she explores images and objects created to acknowledge and venerate ancestors.
Each Highlights Tour offers an intimate look at specific areas of the BMA collection with a BMA curator or educator. Join us to learn something new about our collection of more than 27,000 works of art!
Tours begin in the Main Lobby of the BMA.