Three local African American women artists are coming together to present an art exhibition at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in response to the killing spree by a white supremacist that left 10 people dead and three injured at the Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue on May 14, 2022.
Since 2000, some 47% of all works acquired by Buffalo AKG have been artists who are people of color, compared to 10% represented in the collection between 1862 and 1999, according to Holly Hughes, senior curator for the collection.
The artwork will be on exhibit for nearly seven months, from March 8 to Sept. 30, and features portraitures by Julia Bottoms, one of the artists on the Freedom Wall, prose from Tiffany Gaines and poetry from Jillian Hanesworth, who was Buffalo’s inaugural poet laureate, and whose poem “Water” was installed as part of an in-store memorial to the victims after Tops reopened to the public.
The “Before and After Again” exhibition will offer free admission in the museum’s M&T Bank Gallery in the Seymour H. Knox Building, and is being presented by Tops.
“I believe this project can hold room for a community in mourning, while simultaneously searching for joy in the memory of those lost,” Bottoms said in a statement. “I believe a major component of the…
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