GALLERY OPENING: ‘The Work of Our Hands’ | A Collaborative Exhibition

Name: GALLERY OPENING: ‘The Work of Our Hands’ | A Collaborative Exhibition
Start: 2026-01-10T13:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-01-10T15:00:00-06:00
Location: 19 E 4th Street , Panama City, FL, United States, Florida 32401

Schedule

Sat Jan 10 2026 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

19 E 4th Street , Panama City, FL, United States, Florida 32401 | Panama City, FL

Please join us for the opening of “The Work of Our Hands’, a reflection on the past 100 years of change through painting and drawing — two of the most intimate, human forms of communication.
Their hands remember. Their hands imagine. Their hands create change.
Reception: Saturday, January 10, 1-3pm CST.
Free to attend.
On display January 9 - February 28.
The Center for the Arts is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 10am-5pm CST. Fridays from 10am-7pm CST.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The Work of Our Hands is an exhibition that explores how Black artists use the foundational mediums of painting and drawing as powerful vehicles for communication, self-definition, and storytelling. Focused on the intimate, expressive nature of the hand-drawn line and the painted surface, the exhibition emphasizes the enduring significance of these traditional practices in articulating personal, cultural, and historical narratives.
Through graphite and pigment, gesture and form, each artist in this exhibition engages in a visual language that speaks across time and experience. Drawing and painting become acts of preservation and revelation — used to remember, to resist, to imagine, and to affirm.
In a world that often attempts to silence or distort Black voices, these works reclaim expression through mark-making. Every stroke, shading, and texture becomes a statement: of who we are, where we come from, and what we carry.
More than aesthetic practice, painting and drawing in this exhibition are positioned as acts of translation — translating emotion into image, memory into matter, and silence into visibility. The Work of Our Hands honors the discipline, labor, and intention that lie behind these mediums, reminding us that art made by hand is also art made with heart — deliberate, enduring, and unafraid to speak.