Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone

Join MA-NMWA for a special tour of Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone with Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, the George Putnam Curator of American Art, and view the first retrospective of acclaimed 19th-centurt Black and Indigenous sculptor Edmonia Lewis, in an exhibition co-organized by the Peabody Essex Museum and the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia.

Born in Greenbush, New York in 1844, Lewis became the first sculptor of Black and Indigenous (Mississauga) descent to achieve international recognition. Beginning her career in Boston in 1863, she traveled to Rome in 1866 to join the leading American sculptors of her generation, breaking international, racial and gender barriers. "Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way,” Lewis recalled in 1878. “That is what I tell my people whenever I meet them, that they must not be discouraged, but work ahead until the world is bound to respect them for what they have accomplished.”

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