Black Nature: Letitia Huckaby

Multimedia artist Letitia Huckaby continues to address profound themes of family, history, and legacy in her exhibition at the Hilliard Museum titled Black Nature. The name is born from the historical and contemporary poetry collection titled Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, which explores the complicated relationship between African Americans and our country's vast landscape. Huckaby continues this exploration through hauntingly ethereal landscape photography framed in embroidery hoops, emphasizing how the African American journey toward an American "promised land" in many ways feels circular, and not yet reached. The use of embroidery hoops also create a parallel between the artist's artistic labor with historical notions of handicraft as a pleasurable hobby, and African American ties to the American agricultural landscape. Open during regular museum hours. hilliardmuseum.org.