This exhibition has been organized and supported by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri. Additional financial support has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency. Midwest Express Airlines is the official airline sponsor of the exhibition. Carrie Mae Weems, anthropologist, folklorist and internationally acclaimed visual artist, strikes a dialogue with history in this compelling installation exploring memory, race, education and class. Weems transformation of historical images from Hampton s archives serves as the show s central focus.
Enlarged photographs printed onto translucent muslin banners hang from the gallery s ceiling.
Viewers walk among the sheer panels that hover like ghosts, summoning memories and a new way of seeing. The Hampton Project leaves viewers questioning their notions of education, and brings together the work of two exceptional women distanced by time and race, but joined in discipline and a shared focus on the human experience. The exhibition has been organized by the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. It is funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Peter Norton Family Foundation, and private donations. Midwest Express Airlines is the official airline sponsor of the exhibition.