Above: Detail from painting by Ron Abbe
Opening Reception: 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Wednesday,
April 6, 2005
April 7 at 12:00 noon: Michele S. Kay will
discuss the Housatonic Museum of Art's collection and conservation
program plans and a tour of the collection will be included.
Above: Illustration by Amanda
Barrett
Opening Reception: 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Wednesday,
April 27, 2005
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The Housatonic Museum
of Art will
offer the following films highlighting author Zora
Neale Hurston and the artists of
the Harlem Renaissance.
The Harlem Renaissance encompassed an extraordinary outburst
of creativity in poetry, literature, music and the visual arts.The
following films will be presented in April in the Gallery:
Against the Odds: The Artists of the
Harlem Renaissance This
film features more than 130 rarely seen paintings, sculptures,
prints, and photographs by black artists, and even more rarely
seen archival footage of those artists at work. Showing
April 4 - 9.
From These Roots is
a documentary by Emmy-award winning filmmaker William Greaves
that garnered
twenty-two awards for its use
of authentic photographs of the period chronicling the
artistic, social and political renaissance of Afro-America
in the “roaring
20s”. Showing April 10 - 14.
Zora Is My Name, an American Playhouse
production that is a joyous tribute, in story telling and
in song, to a unique
American writer: Zora Neale Hurston. The film features
performances by Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett, Jr. and Flip Wilson. Showing April
13 - 19.
Zora Neale Hurston was one of the most important African
American women to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Hurston
was a college graduate and pursued her degree in anthropology. Hurston
collected folk stories in the South as well as writing over
200 short stories and several important novels – the
most celebrated Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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