RETURN TO THE LAND OF MY ANCESTORS
a visual storytelling odyssey by robert alvin crum
THE STORY OF BACKCOUNTRY NORTH CAROLINA
FROM THREE PERSPECTIVES
EXHIBIT OPEN NOW THROUGH APRIL 2018
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT:
Return to the Land of My Ancestors, a walk through North Carolina during Daniel Boone's time. The exhibit is inspired by a collection of paintings by local artist Robert Alvin Crum and focuses on telling the history of our forefathers from three diverse perspectives; North Carolina American Indians, white settlers, and African slaves. Crum is a direct descendant of Daniel Boone and his paintings are meant to reflect his connection to his ancestors.
The exhibit, designed by Museum Operations Manager, Angel Johnston, Robert Crum, and Program Assistant, Melanie Vaughn, is accessible to people of all ages. Return to the Land of My Ancestors showcases the Museum’s innovative, family-friendly style that combines the classic learning structure of a traditional museum with the play-based learning strategies typically used in children’s museums. This unique approach allows the museum to offer developmentally appropriate learning opportunities to people across a diverse spectrum of age and abilities. Highlights of the interactive installation include a settler’s cabin, a hands-on play-garden, and reproduction clothing from the mid 18th century.
Return to the Land of My Ancestors, a walk through North Carolina during Daniel Boone's time. The exhibit is inspired by a collection of paintings by local artist Robert Alvin Crum and focuses on telling the history of our forefathers from three diverse perspectives; North Carolina American Indians, white settlers, and African slaves. Crum is a direct descendant of Daniel Boone and his paintings are meant to reflect his connection to his ancestors.
The exhibit, designed by Museum Operations Manager, Angel Johnston, Robert Crum, and Program Assistant, Melanie Vaughn, is accessible to people of all ages. Return to the Land of My Ancestors showcases the Museum’s innovative, family-friendly style that combines the classic learning structure of a traditional museum with the play-based learning strategies typically used in children’s museums. This unique approach allows the museum to offer developmentally appropriate learning opportunities to people across a diverse spectrum of age and abilities. Highlights of the interactive installation include a settler’s cabin, a hands-on play-garden, and reproduction clothing from the mid 18th century.
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MEET THE ARTIST:
Robert Alvin Crum began drawing and painting as a young child. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois and moved to North Carolina in 1989. Classically trained, he studied with a number of artists and quickly learned to work on a large scale when studying drawing, painting and fresco. Crum is now a full-time professional painter, muralist and mosaicist. He established a studio in Concord, North Carolina in 2014. If you visit his website (CLICK HERE) you will find his artistic range stretches from oil paintings to sculpture and beyond. More recently, he became interested in doing family research and began creating a series of paintings inspired by the lives of his ancestors. It is this series that serves as a center piece to our exhibit of Return to the Land of My Ancestors. In addition to the paintings belonging to "Return to the Land of My Ancestors" we also have on display a few of Crum's watercolors from his series called "Listening to My Ancestors", which was the precursory project to "Return to the Land of My Ancestors" and received a Preservation Education and Publication Award from the Historic Salisbury Foundation Inc.. |
