WRKF 89.3 Baton Rouge Public Radio features LSU Museum of Art's Clementine Hunter Oral History Project
Install view from the exhibit Cherished: The Art of Clementine Hunter’at the LSU Museum of Art. Photo by Charles Champagne.
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The LSU Museum of Art is currently working on an oral history project on Clementine Hunter. Born in 1887, Hunter was a self-taught Black folk artist, who lived and worked on Melrose Plantation and depicted early 20th century plantation life in her work. Before her death in 1988 at the age of 101, Hunter became the first artist to have a solo show at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
LSU Museum of Art educator and public programs manager Callie Smith, and LSU graduate student and interviewer Sarah Nansubuga, tell us how they used conversations with Hunter’s family to capture her story.