[Scmusenet] Grass Roots & lecture by Peter Wood - February 13

[KOVERMAN, JILL]

"Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art" opens at McKissick
Museum this Saturday, February 13th and run through May 8, 2010. 

 

On Saturday, visitors will be treated to a lecture by Peter Wood on the
history and impact of West African's on the Sweet Grass basket making
industry in South Carolina. The lecture will begin promptly at noon in
the first floor auditorium of McKissick Museum, on the historic
Horseshoe, USC.

 

Peter H. Wood is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina. His expertise is Colonial American
History, and more specifically, African American history in the
Carolinas prior to 1740. 

 

His most well know books are Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South
Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion.  New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1974; Strange New Land: African Americans, 1617-1776.  New York:
Oxford U. Press, 1996; and the college textbook, Created Equal: A Social
and Political History of the United States, co-authored with Jacqueline
Jones, Tim Borstelmann, Elaine May, and Vicki Ruiz. New York,
Addison-Wesley-Longman, 2003. 

 

Other opening day events include: 

 

Gallery Talks with basketmaker Nakia Wigfall and curator Dale
Rosengarten.

 

Showing of Dana Sardet's film: Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the
Lowcountry Basket. 

 

Grass Roots, a major international exhibition tells the parallel history
of coiled basket making in South Carolina and Africa. Featuring more
than 200 objects, it contains paintings, historical documents, video
footage, and photographic images as well as stunning examples of the
best in American and African basketry. 

 

McKissick Museum offers free admission. Special hours on February 13th:
10:00 - 4:00 p.m. 

 

Please call (803) 777-7251 with questions. 

 

 

Jill Koverman

Curator of Collections

McKissick Museum

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208

(803) 777-3708

 

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