October 10, 2024

Beauty Arts

The Arts Authority

Art exhibit at Kent House pays homage to Black history

Art exhibit at Kent House pays homage to Black history
Art exhibit at Kent House pays homage to Black history

Ransom Rambo’s painting “Home Comfort” depicts a woman smiling as she sits in her rocker in entrance of a woodstove in her cabin.

“Look how she seems to be like she’s thinking of one thing pleased,” he mentioned. He details out the moon shining by the open doorway in the qualifications.

Rambo reported he was elevated by Black gals, specifically a single named Viola.

“I would go to her cabin and sit by her woodstove and she’d inform me tales about slavery,” he claimed.

“Home Comfort” is element of Rambo’s exhibit at Kent Plantation Property, 3601 Bayou Rapides Road. He does not like to explain to his age, but about 50 decades worthy of of operate are represented in the show, on screen till the conclude of March.