Shows and Exhibits

I Got the Poster!

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In this post Black Pioneers Exhibit Celebration, California Museum, Sacramento, CA in July 2023, I shared that I discovered that my quilt Langston Hughes: Pioneer Poet was featured on the poster for California Museum‘s leg of the nationally touring show Black Pioneers: Legacy in the American West, curated by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi.

What a huge surprise when I arrived at the show!

Well the show ended October 1, 2023 and last week I got to wondering “what became of that poster now that the show is over?”

On a whim I reached out to the exhibit team at the California Museum and one of the Exhibit Technicians kindly mailed it to me!!!

It arrived on Friday and we went and out and got a frame for it that afternoon.

I was going to hang it in my studio or somewhere upstairs in the house but John insisted we hang it in the living room (I used the term “we” loosely as I only advised if it was centered while John got up on the ladder and hung it):

We had a giggle that the poster coordinates with our decor (how thoughtful of the museum when they designed the poster, ha!); and coordinated very nicely with the quilt hanging over the banister:

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28 thoughts on “I Got the Poster!”

  3. That was so kind of them🥰 and how thrilling for you to receive it! I can only imagine what an amazing feeling that must have been to see your work displayed and chosen for the poster! I love this so much and so very happy for you!

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  4. This is great! I’m a bit surprised that you weren’t notified about its use in the poster from the beginning though – ‘permissions’ and all of that. The fact that you spotted it and then cleverly ‘reached out’ about it at the end of the show proved to be a smooth move! Did you autograph it?!? (just a joke)

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  9. How wonderful!! And what a perfect space for that poster! Good eye John!🥰 Is the quilt still on tour or back home with you? I’m so proud of you my dear friend! This piece is second only to the tribute you created in honor of your dad. Love it! Love you!❤️

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  12. You are very humble. If I had any work of art that achieved such success. I would make sure to start or end conversations with “and by the way . . . I am a nationally recognized artist”. I like the little basket near the poster. I made a similar one in high school that I still have. Except I used yarn.

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