Ashes in the Fruit Trees, new work by
Angela Davis Johnson

This powerful show was created in conjunction with the play "Blood at the Root".

Painter and social activist Angela Davis Johnson looks at the history of lynchings in the United States in her latest series "Ashes on the Fruit Trees". “I decided to approach this body of work with a question: if ashes spoke about the history of American lynching (both of the distant past and present) what would they say?

Through twenty- six paintings I explore the trauma, and ultimately the dignity of a survived people."

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Angela Davis Johnson