Gallery Opening – February 16
5:00-7:00 PM
Gallery will run through March 29, 2024

Art exhibit highlights Baldwin, student artwork

Cultural Center hosts art from Nyssa Middle School, Four Rivers Community School

The public is invited to attend an “opening night” event this Friday, Feb. 16, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Harano Gallery at the Cultural Center, 676 S.W. Fifth Ave. Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted.

Author and activist James Baldwin — the grandson of a slave — wrote about racial tension and growing up Black and in poverty in the early part of the 20^th Century.

During Black History Month, Four Rivers Cultural Center & Museum celebrates Baldwin’s work, including the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, and his essays, Notes of a Native Son, and Nobody Knows My Name. Art students in the community were invited to create art around a Baldwin quotation. The art is exhibited in the Harano Art Gallery during the month of February.

Students in Kacie Shaffer’s class at Nyssa Middle School chose the quote, “Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”  Students in Samuel Lopez’ class at Four Rivers Community School chose to center their work around the quote, “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle; love is a war; love is a growing up.” and, Hanna Swanson’s students at FRCS chose a quote from Baldwin’s novel, Giovanni’s Room: “I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.”