Black heroines are featured in new Black Hawk exhibit

Jonathan Turner
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A new art exhibit at Moline’s Black Hawk College pays tribute to lesser-known heroines of Black history, for Black History Month.

ArtSpace Gallery at Black Hawk College (first floor of Building 4 at the QC Campus, 6600 34th Ave., Moline) is showing “Freedom’s Daughters,” paintings by Kathy Schumacher, through Friday, Feb. 23.

One of Kathy Schumacher’s featured paintings is of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), the first African-American woman to publish a short story, an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer who also co-founded the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.
One of Kathy Schumacher’s featured paintings is of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), the first African-American woman to publish a short story, an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer who also co-founded the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.

Everyone is invited to a reception and artist talk Wednesday, Feb. 21 from 4-6 p.m. Light refreshments will be provided.

Schumacher of Cedar Rapids is a self-taught artist who specializes in portraits and figurative drawings. She’s been working out of a studio in the Cherry Building in Cedar Rapids since 2008. “Charcoal is my favorite medium – I love the way I can get my hands right into it,” she said in a Black Hawk College release.

“My work is to give voice to the forgotten women of history. This cycle of paintings depicts largely unknown Black heroines from suffrage to civil rights in the United States,” Schumacher said. “These courageous women have something to teach us. Not just for what they did in the past, but to see in them what American needs today if we are truly going to embrace the best of who we are.”

For more information about exhibits in the ArtSpace Gallery, email ArtDesign@bhc.edu or visit the Facebook page HERE.

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