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MONTGOMERY—Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum will host an exhibit this month featuring a selection of paintings by local artist Pamela Boggs of Montgomery.

 

Exploring a wide range of themes and subject matters with a unique visual style, “Truth & Spirit: The Paintings of Pamela Boggs,” will be on display inside the exhibit hall from May 6 to June 28.

 

Part of the long and honored tradition of self-taught artists in Alabama, Boggs’ paintings draw viewers into a greater understanding of life’s joys, struggles and mysteries through the representation of dreams, visions and events from everyday life, said Daniel Neil, curator of the Rosa Parks Museum.

 

“Ms. Boggs’ compositions draw on her deep personal spiritual convictions and the role that ancestors play in shaping our contemporary lives,” Neil said. “The descendant of spiritual teachers from both Saint Kitts B.V.I in the West Indies and the Muskogee peoples (Creek Nation) from Alabama, Ms. Boggs’ work resonates with a profound respect for the role that forbearers play in the lives of their children.”

 

The exhibit hall at the Rosa Parks Museum is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.
 
For more information on this exhibit or other upcoming contact Daniel Neil at (334) 241-8701.

 

 

The painting “Jubilee” is among several works by local artist Pamela Boggs of Montgomery on display in May at the Rosa Parks Museum. “Truth & Spirit: The Paintings of Pamela Boggs,” will be on display inside the exhibit hall from May 6 to June 28.

 

 

 

TROY – Troy University’s Malone Gallery will kick off a remembrance of the Holocaust with the opening of an exhibit entitled “Parallel Journeys: Stories of Teenagers and the Holocaust.” Opening Friday in the Malone Gallery, the exhibit, on loan from the Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University, tells the stories of teenagers and young adults who were witnesses, participants and, often, victims of World War II and the Holocaust, said Greg Skaggs, an associate professor of art who is coordinating the exhibit. “Unfortunately, discrimination and injustice continue through the persistence of prejudice and bigotry, but we do have an opportunity to learn from history. We have an opportunity to stop being bystanders or perpetrators and, instead, become rescuers,” he said. “The ‘Parallel Journeys’ exhibit invites visitors to contemplate ways in which their actions can make a difference in the world today.” Included in the exhibit, which is free and open to the public, are the stories of Anne Frank, Elie Wiesel, an Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Traudi Junge, Adolph Hitler’s personal secretary. Other stories document lesser-known teens and young adults who survived the concentration camps, hid from the Nazis, led rescue efforts, served as soldiers, remained on the home front or aided individuals who were targets of Nazi oppression. Other upcoming events on the Troy Campus include the film series “Remembering the Holocaust” that begins at 7 p.m. Jan. 29 with a screening of “The Pianist.” The series, also free and open to the public, will run weekly through March 4. ###