Redemption Songs:
The Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica

This exhibition will include works in a range of media by some twenty Jamaican artists, selected from the private collection of Wayne and Myrene Cox. Underdocumented and rarely exhibited, the work of Jamaican self-taught artists is directly informed by the island's diasporic AfricanAmerican culture, its politics and its major religions - Revival, Kumina, and Rastafarianism. The artists and the objects they create are steeped in spirituality, storytelling, and an underlying resistance to slavery and colonialism. The paintings, sculpture, and mixed media works in this show reflect the individual experiences and creativity of the artists who made them, and also reveal common sources in African folk culture and Jamaica's indigenous cultures - Taino and Arawak.

The show was organized by the Diggs Gallery at Winston - Salem State University in North Carolina.

Curator: Randall Morris