Friday, August 20, 1999
Storyteller performances open Taft exhibit season
BY OWEN FINDSEN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
When storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston begins her residency as the Taft's Duncanson Artist in November, her performances will kick off the museum's new season of three major exhibitions and two annual exhibits.
As announced last month, the Philadelphia-based storyteller, actress, singer and composer will be at the Taft Nov. 1-13. She will share her raps, monologues, poetry and dramatic impersonations about African and African-American history with young and adult audiences.
Here is the rest of the Taft Museum season:
• Nov. 3-Jan. 9: Heaven and Nature Sing: An Italian Baroque Nativity Scene. The Taft's annual Christmas display of an 18th-century Italian prescepio.
• Dec. 3-Jan. 23: The Etchings and Drypoints of James McNeill Whistler. Forty prints from the Syracuse University collection focus on the art of the American expatriate whose painting “At The Piano” is in the Taft collection.
• Feb. 11-April 16: A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture. Late Medieval and Renaissance chests, clocks, jewelry and religious objects from the Richard and Erna Flagg Collection at the Milwaukee Art Museum come to the Taft.
• May 5-29: Artists Reaching Classrooms. The annual exhibition includes work by students participating in the Taft's educational programs.
• June 16-Oct. 22: The Great Migration: The Evolution of African American Art, 1750-1945. Works from public and private regional collections will show the evolution of African American art over 150 years with works by artists such as Henry O. Tanner, Horace Pippin and Robert S. Duncanson, painter of the Taft's murals.
Information: 241-0343.
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