FTCC’s Student Government Association will host Homage, a traveling Black History exhibit, on Feb. 3 at the Tony Rand Student Center. The exhibit will be shown in the common area from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Homage features over 500 artifacts of African American history and culture from the private collection of Nia and Morris McAdoo. The pieces include artwork, legal and historical documents, newspapers, press photos, and books. The collection’s items date back to the periods of slavery, Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement, and through the presidency of Barack Obama.
The exhibit features works from artists Romare Bearden and Elizabeth Catlett and original documents from Frederick Douglas, Shirley Chisholm, Booker T. Washington, and Ralph Bunche, among others.
FTCC SGA President Heather Spexarth said the organization is excited to bring Homage to campus for the first time.
“This exhibit focuses not only on the awful atrocities that have happened but also on the steps and people that have moved us forward,” Spexarth said.
Spexarth said that the exhibit reminded her of the words of Lonnie G. Bunch III, Director of the Smithsonian Institution, who said, “There is no more powerful force than a people steeped in their history, and there is no higher cause than honoring our struggle and ancestors by remembering.”
“We are an inclusive campus,” Spexarth said. “It is important that all students have the opportunity to examine art and artifacts that helped shape the entire history of the United States, whether you’re African American or not.”
Find more information about Homage on the exhibit’s website.
