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Join us for a talk and demonstration by North Carolina woodworker Jerome Bias to celebrate the Columbia Museum of Art's Thomas Day bureau.A self-taught woodworker, Bias has been making period furnishings and studying Southern decorative arts for more than 20 years, using the work of Day, as well as often-unnamed enslaved individuals, as inspiration. He has worked and presented in Old Salem Museums and Gardens and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, and most recently served as artist-in-residence at Belle Grove Plantation. Bias exclusively uses hand tools to create wooden furniture as a way of better understanding the experiences of his enslaved ancestors. In explaining the work of Day, Bias showcases the tools he uses today and demonstrates the kinds of techniques that Day himself would have used more than 150 years ago.
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4850 Museum Dr, Mobile, AL, United States, Alabama 36608