Black History Museum hosts special closing program for ‘Murry DePillars: Double Vision’
6/2/2017, 11:42 p.m.
The Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia is hosting a special closing program for its exhibition, “Murry DePillars: Double Vision.”
The program will feature Mary DePillars, wife of the late artist, talking about his life and five decades of work with Free Press Managing Editor Bonnie V. Winston.
Dr. DePillars, who was central to Chicago’s African-American Arts Movement in the 1960s and led the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts for 20 years as dean, died in 2008 at age 69. His paintings have been exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, among others.
The free program will be 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 2, followed by jazz by Dr. Weldon Hill, a pianist, composer and friend of Murry and Mary DePillars. He will play some of Dr. DePillars’ jazz favorites and share stories about the artist.
A museum tour will precede the program at 5:30 p.m.
For information and reservations, www.blackhistorymuseum.org or (804) 780-9093.
