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Article: Learning from exhibitions: Ancestry and Innovation: African-American art from the American Folk Art Museum.(Cover story)
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- Arts & Activities
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- December 1, 2008
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An exciting variety of artistic expressions by self-taught African-American artists from the urban North through the rural South is documented and explored in a stunning new traveling exhibition. Ancestry and Innovation: African-American Art from the American Folk Art Museum originally debuted at the American Folk Art Museum in 2005, opened at Reynolda House Museum of Art in Winston-Salem, N.C., in 2008 and continues on a five-city national tour through 2009.
Selected from the vast collections of the American Folk Art Museum in New York, 39 paintings, sculptures, quilts and works on paper showcase the impressive holdings of this museum, while providing a sampling ...