ART TALK: Glenna Barrow on Thomas Day

Name: ART TALK: Glenna Barrow on Thomas Day
Start: 2024-07-11T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 4850 Museum Dr, Mobile, AL, United States, Alabama 36608

Schedule

Thu Jul 11 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

4850 Museum Dr, Mobile, AL, United States, Alabama 36608 | Mobile, AL

Join us for a look at the fascinating story of Thomas Day. A free Black craftsman in the antebellum South, Day became the most prominent furniture maker in North Carolina in the years leading up to the Civil War. CMA Curator of Education Glenna Barlow will give us an opportunity to learn about Day’s life, craft, and legacy as we examine this extraordinary bureau along with his many other contributions to Southern cabinetry and architecture.
Glenna Barlow has been at the Columbia Museum of Art for nine years, where she currently serves as the Curator of Education. She holds an M.S. in Education from the University of Mary Washington as well as an M.A. in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University. Now into her second decade as a museum educator and interpreter, she has researched and written on varied topics ranging from Tang Dynasty ceramics to Auguste Rodin and M.C. Escher. Most recently she curated the CMA’s first exhibition of Islamic art, Reverent Ornament.