Billy Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
In his late 1980s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated Black neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama, Bill Traylor produced a body of extraordinary art. Born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, Traylor witnessed profound social and political change during his life spanning slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration.
Year:
2022Total CPB Investment This Year:
$8,000Made Possible by CPB's Investment:
Fred Barron Daphne McWilliams
New York , NY
$8,000
Topics:
Painting, Sculpture, Visual, Paper & Textile Arts
African American & African