Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad
On view through October 29, 2023
New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks!
New Bedford, Massachusetts
newbedfordart.org
While many books have been written on the subject, there is very little visual documentation of the Underground Railroad. While honoring the historical necessity of the movement’s secrecy, “Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad” invites visitors to a small glimpse of what the long road to freedom may have looked like for 100,000 enslaved Americans in the years before the Civil War’s end.
Over the course of a decade, photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales researched those brave men and women, their collective steps toward liberation, and the complicated paths that led them there—with the hope that visitors might learn more, ask questions, and open dialogue on the subject, all toward better understanding how we all are connected.
Find more here: https://newbedfordart.org/darkness-to-light/
[Image: Jeanine Michna-Bales, Decision to Leave, Magnolia Plantation on the Cane River, Louisiana, 2013. Chromogenic color print, 25 1/4 x 36 1/4]
