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“School of Beauty, School of Culture” by Kerry James Marshall

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February 18 @ 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

An enormous and complex multi-figure painting set in an African-American beauty salon/beauty academy. Mirrors in the painting are outlined in glitter, which Marshall applies to the surface in a gel medium. The painting’s unstretched canvas surface has grommets running along its outer perimeter. The painting hangs on screws threaded through the grommets. The composition ends just short of the support’s outer edges.
© Kerry James Marshall

Curious about works of art that aren’t always included on a BMA tour? Take a DeTour with us each Sunday, where we’ll spend 30 minutes focusing on a work of art that is off the beaten path. 

This Sunday, drop by and join BMA Teaching Fellow Jessica Chanel Davis as she facilitates a discussion on Kerry James Marshall’s School of Beauty, School of Culture located in the Nappy Roots: A Transatlantic Story of Hair, Struggle, and Liberation exhibition.

Meet Jessica in the Main Lobby on the First Floor at 1:00 pm.

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