When American mixed-media artist Faith Ringgold learned about Lucy, the ancient remains of an early human ancestor, she was so inspired that she traveled to the Ethiopian city where Lucy was found.
While on that trip, Ringgold gathered fabrics, which are part of an exhibit now on display at the Walters Art Museum titled Ethiopia at the Crossroads.
The exhibition, available to the public until March 3, places contemporary works like Ringgold’s alongside ancient African artifacts. The message is this: we all derive from Ethiopia; it is our first home. According to the museum, this is the first time in this country that an art museum has curated a show that depicts the breadth of Ethiopian art in this way.
“Ethiopia at the Crossroads is the first major art exhibition in America to examine an array of Ethiopian cultural and artistic traditions from their origins to the present day and to chart the ways in which engaging with surrounding cultures manifested in Ethiopian artistic practices,” reads the exhibition statement.
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