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TOOLS OF HER MINISTRY:
The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan
November 14, 2004- January 16,
2005
Related Events
- Sunday, November 14, 2004, 3:00 pm
- Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan, A High
Definition Television Production by Gail Levin and Personal Reflections
by those who knew Sister Gertrude Morgan
- This 30-minute-long documentary on the art and life of Sister Gertrude
Morgan was produced in High Definition for Voom television by award-winning
producer Gail Levin and features commentary by friends of the artist as
well as art historians and collectors of her work. Following the screening
of the program, friends and acquaintances of Sister Gertrude will share
their own stories and experiences of the artist.
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- Thursday, December 2, 2004, 7:00 pm
- Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan
- William A. Fagaly, Curator of Tools of Her Ministry: The Art
of Sister Gertrude Morgan, Curator of African Art, NOMA
- Sister Gertrude Morgan was a self-taught artist, evangelist, musician
and poet who considered her artwork a tool for preaching the word of God.
After arriving in New Orleans in 1939, she helped establish an orphanage
and then her own Everlasting Gospel Mission, all the while preaching and
singing on the streets of the French Quarter. William A. Fagaly, the curator
of the current retrospective exhibition of the art of Sister Gertrude,
knew the artist during the last twelve years of her life. His slide illustrated
lecture will tell the story of her art and life.
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- Sunday, December 12, 2004, 3:00 pm
- Sister Gertrude Morgan and the Art History of Black Folk
- Helen Shannon, Director of the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton,
NJ
- The self-declared profit and missionary Sister Gertrude Morgan created
an enormous oevre of religiously inspired art, many of which are on display
in Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan. Questions
abound regarding the sources of her imagery. Helen Shannon will discuss
factors in the life of Sister Gertrude that may have influenced her imagery
as well as look to visual sources in African American culture that led
Morgan's work to look the way it does.
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- Thursday, January 6, 2005, 7:00 pm
- New Orleans in the Years of Sister Gertrude Morgan
- Jason Berry, freelance writer and journalist
- Sister Gertrude Morgan arrived in New Orleans, "the headquarters
of sin," as she called it, in 1939 and she quickly became a familiar
figure on the streets of the city's French Quarter. In the four decades
of her life in New Orleans, the French Quarter evolved from a post-depression
era urban village to a bohemian artist's mecca. Sister Gertrude tirelessly
proselytized on these streets amongst the artists, musicians, and burlesque
dancers, fulfilling her God-given mission.
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