In the case of the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, this gives it the latitude to devote all four of its galleries to African and African-American art during Black History Month. The four give a wide-ranging look at heritage from as close as Hanover County and as far away as Africa. Dennis Winston, an arts resource teacher in Richmond Public Schools, supplies the nearby focus with his woodcuts, many of which have been exhibited in Richmond over the years.
Portraits depict the strength of weather-worn farmers.
Curator Diana Blanchard Gross had seen Winston's work in a juried show several years ago. I had only seen a few images. They were very powerful. Richmond audiences also may remember paintings by Rick Hyman, whose traveling show was at the Black History Museum last summer. Hyman's brightly colored paintings were inspired by about 300 family snapshots from the early 1900s, which he discovered when an aunt died in Texas.