Freeman Exhibition at Mississippi Museum of Art

A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories, an exhibition of photographs by Roland L. Freeman, opened at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson on January 25 and will hang through April 6, 1997.

The exhibition includes approximately 150 of Freeman's photographs, both color and black and white; a selection of quilts; interpretative panels; and other works of art related to quilters. Built on work done in the mid-1970s and 1980s in Mississippi and Alabama, A Communion of the Spirits is an outgrowth of a photodocumentary study that Freeman has been conducting for over 20 years.

Freeman, who is spending this semester as Eudora Welty Visiting Professor of Southern Studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, was on hand for a reception at the opening of the exhibition. Also present to talk about their quilts in the exhibition were quilters from the Mississippi Delta community of Tutwiler.

A Communion of the Spirits is accompanied by an illustrated book of the same title.