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The College of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Artwork will spotlight Haitian artwork in its fall exhibition, “Haiti’s Time,” opening Aug. 30, 2025. The exhibit attracts from a significant reward of greater than 100 works by Beverly and John Fox Sullivan.
The College of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Artwork will highlight Haitian artwork this fall with “Haiti’s Time,” a significant exhibition constructed from a current reward of works by Beverly and John Fox Sullivan. Opening Aug. 30, 2025, the present presents work, metalwork, assemblages and drapo Vodou — ceremonial flags — by a few of Haiti’s most celebrated artists.
The exhibition is the primary public presentation of the Sullivan reward because the museum acquired the gathering earlier this yr, a second The Haitian Occasions beforehand reported as a landmark addition to UVA’s Caribbean and Africana research assets.
“Haiti’s Time” showcases 26 works from a group of over 100, thought of one of many foremost holdings of recent Haitian artwork on this planet. Organized across the themes of ‘Historic Time,’ ‘Private Time,’ and ‘Sacred Time,’ the exhibition invitations audiences to contemplate Haiti by its historical past, religion, and on a regular basis life. Artists featured embody Rigaud Benoit, Wilson Bigaud, Myrlande Fixed, Hector Hyppolite, and Frantz Zéphirin.
Karen E. Milbourne, The Fralin’s J. Sanford Miller, Household Director, curated the present in collaboration with Laurent Dubois, John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor of the Historical past and Rules of Democracy, and Ariel Ankrah, assistant curator at The Fralin.
“We’re particularly happy to showcase Haitian artwork from the Beverly and John Fox Sullivan reward and see our areas remodeled by Pélagie Gbaguidi and Finnegan Shannon. We need to provide our guests home windows to different locations and occasions, and alternatives to see the world we expect we all know anew,” Milbourne stated.
The Haitian exhibit anchors a broader slate of fall programming because the museum marks its ninetieth anniversary. The Fralin Museum of Artwork, situated in Charlottesville, Va., will open the exhibitions with a media preview on Aug. 25, adopted by public entry starting Aug. 30. Admission is free.
“I selected UVA as a result of it is without doubt one of the most distinguished universities that can be dedicated to increasing its horizons and that of its college students,” Sullivan stated earlier this yr about his current reward of Haitian artwork to the college.
The gathering options work by famend Haitian artists corresponding to Hector Hyppolite, Philomé Obin, and Myrlande Fixed, together with metalwork, assemblages, and drapo Vodou, ceremonial flags with non secular and historic significance.
Different reveals opening Aug. 30 embody “The World Between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa,” an exploration of historical cultural trade throughout the Nile Valley, and In Feeling: Empathy and “Stress By way of Incapacity,” that includes up to date artists who reframe lived experiences of incapacity.
Including to the lineup is “Excavation and Data,” a large-scale set up by Pélagie Gbaguidi, recipient of Belgium’s Ultima Prize for Artwork. Her work will weave collectively connections between Haiti, Brazil, Virginia, and West Africa as a part of the museum’s new Fee collection.