Art Talk On Thomas Day Coming Up

The Mobile Museum of Art (MMofA) is holding an art talk with Glenna Barlow, curator of education at the Columbia Museum of Art (CMA) in Columbia, South Carolina, on July 11 at 6:30-7:30 p.m. She will tell the story of Thomas Day, a free Black craftsman in the antebellum South who became the most prominent furniture maker in North Carolina in the years leading up to the Civil War. Barlow will speak on Day’s life, craft and legacy. Barlow holds an MS in education from the University of Mary Washington and an MA in art history from Virginia Commonwealth University. In her second decade as a museum educator and interpreter, she has researched and written on varied topics ranging from Tang Dynasty ceramics to Auguste Rodin and M.C. Escher. Most recently, she curated the CMA’s first exhibition of Islamic art, “Reverent Ornament. “