The Harriet Tubman Museum in Macon, Ga is absolutely
gorgeous! It was finally finished this year and I finally went in to see it
today. OMG is it GORGEOUS!!! I am so proud that my hometown has such a beautiful
museum. Be sure to go upstairs. There
are rooms with inventions that blacks have made, a huge mural one of our
prominent black artists made depicting black heritage in Macon ( I have personal
story to tell about this artist too) and in the Harriet Tubman room there are not
only documents about the life and times of Harriet Tubman but one can view
actual real nationally known artists work. Some of the artists I remember and
have taught my students are john Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence,
and William Johnson.
In another room downstairs for Georgia black artists I got
to see art work by the Dot Man who was featured in an article published in an
issue of School Arts magazine when I first started teaching art. I was so
excited!! It’s quite exciting to me to see the actual real artwork!
Another artist I must mention is Wini McQueen. She is one of
our local black artists who mainly works in fabric, dying and using photographs
in her pieces. She was commissioned by the Tubman to create banners and quilts
depicting the history of the black people in Georgia and they are hung in the
rotunda.
As sad as the past is let us all remember so it won’t be
repeated.
Check out my arts integration lesson on the Shoo Fly quilt. Legend
says it helped the blacks in their flight on the Underground Railroad:
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