UWF Historic Trust launches art exhibit
- November 5, 2014
- / Staff Reports
- / early-learning
A group of African Americans went against the tradition of a segregated South to express the times through art.
The result was a collection of beautiful iconic landscapes brought to life on basic materials such as Upson board and crown molding.
Their traveling exhibit, “Against the Odds: The Art of Highwaymen,” is coming to Pensacola.
The University of West Florida Historic Trust will present the exhibit from Nov. 6 to Dec. 28 at Gulf Power’s Voices of Pensacola.
The exhibit is part of the 2014 Pensacola Foo Foo Fest, a 12-day eclectic mixture of art and culture events from Nov. 6 to Nov. 17.
The Florida Highwaymen were a group of 26 black men who broke from convention in the South during the mid-1950s and 1960s. Together they produced more than 200,000 paintings over a 30-year span.
Historic Trust will host an opening reception for the exhibit from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday.
On Dec. 5, Historic Trust will host guest speaker Gary Monroe, author of “The Highwaymen: Florida’s African-American Landscape Painters.”
It will begin with a 5:30 p.m. reception, followed by the lecture at 6 p.m.
The Voices of Pensacola hours of operation are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information about the exhibit, visit historicpensacola.org.