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Sidewalk art highlights black history
Above, his drawing features St. Josephine, a Sudanese woman, enslaved in Africa and later freed in Italy where she became a nun. Josephine served her religious community and the poor. She was beatified in 1992 and canonized eight years later. Corbett says that he participated in the project in collaboration with math faculty Sonya Woodard. “I thought it would be an interesting cultural experience and a good community project,” he says. The artist adds that while sketching, he received mixed reactions from onlookers wondering what he was doing. “It was like doing a public performance,” he says. Corbett’s other sidewalk drawings on campus included, Martin Luther King, the copy of a portrait by African-American artist Annie Hall and the Louisiana Native Guard, the first all-black military unit in the U.S. |
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