The Murray Art Guild presents a new exhibition Friday, March 4 that’s inspired by the work of social activist and native Kentuckian bell hooks.
Collaborators and Murray State Professors Nicole Hand and Carrie Jerrell speak with Tracy Ross on Sounds Good about how “Visual Elegy” came to be.
The exhibition includes work from 26 printmakers, all women. They were asked to make a print in response to hooks’ poetry collection, “Appalachian Elegy.”
Jerrell says hooks was born in Hopkinsville as Gloria Jean Watkins to a working class family. She took bell hooks as a pen name from her grandmother. The activist has published over 30 books. “Appalachian Elegy” includes bits of hooks’ past as well as the state she grew up in.
Hand says all the printmakers reacted positively to “Appalachian Elegy,” and the inspiration comes through beautifully in their work.
The opening reception is Friday from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. at the Murray Art Guild.
