Tag: Fourteen

On August 28, 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago was brutally tortured and murdered in the heart of the former Confederate state of Mississippi while he was visiting family. At the time, this was a regular occurrence in the South of the United States. The Civil War and recon...

Curatorial Research Associate Kyle Mancuso talks with paper conservator Snow Fain about Bruce Onobrakpeya’s print series. Fig. 1: Conservator Snow Fain at work on removing the Fourteen Stations of the Cross prints from their polyester casings. This past spring, the High ope...