Fairborn artist’s work on display at Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
A Fairborn artist now has her work on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
The museum is home to the longest-running exhibition of African American art in the nation, and now Clarice Moore’s art lives there too.
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The piece is called Ascension on Souls.
Moore sat down with News Center 7 Xavier Hershovitz and explained the meaning behind the piece.
“At the bottom line, you have people whose lives were cut short,” she said. “This painting depicted them going up to heaven to happiness, and god recognizes them, and somebody remembers you. It gives them a voice and it for me, it gives me a voice to say that I recognize you.”
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Typically, Moore tends to stick to art circles here in the Miami Valley, however, one day she came across the call for submissions from the museum.
Moore sent in three pieces. Two were rejected, but she was surprised when she heard that one of the pieces was selected.
“I said, ‘what?!’ ‘Haha what?!’ I’m honored, I’m blown away, I’m ecstatic, and it’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance, so I’m going to ride it,” Moore told us.
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Thursday night, she attended a reception for artists, and then on Friday plans to tour the museum with some girlfriends that made the trip with her.
