On Friday May 16, the New Orleans Museum of Art will have an exhibition Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College which showcases 35 collection of murals, paintings and prints by the Harlem Renaissance artist Hale Woodruff. Woodruff's work has been on display continuously at Talladega, one of the first historically black colleges. The large-scale murals depict the 1839 African slave revolt on the Spanish ship La Amistad and other significant events in African-American history. The exhibition will be on view at NOMA till September 14, 2014.
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