Shades of Greatness Exhibit, Cooperstown NY
What ifs? How goods? and Who knowses? - all about the potential of Negro League players. So he expressed himself artistically, warping a bat into the shape of a question mark, punctuating it with a baseball and mounting it on a section of whitewashed fence.
The piece is one of 35 original works on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. in an art exhibition entitled Shades of Greatness. A national touring exhibition birthed from a partnership between the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and the Ford Motor Company, Shades of Greatness opened Sunday at the Hall of Fame thanks to a generous donation by former commissioner Fay Vincent and will be on display through the end of the fall.
It is one part of a year-long effort by the Hall of Fame to honor the contributions to baseball history made by the Negro leagues and their players in special ways, in addition to the Museum's permanent exhibit on African Americans in Baseball, Pride and Passion. The culmination of a five-year study on African-Americans in baseball resulted in a special election on Feb. 27. Twelve players and five executives were voted to be inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 30. A commemorative statue of Leroy Satchel Paige, honoring the legacy of the Negro leagues and all Negro league players will be dedicated July 29.
We are bringing together a number of efforts to strengthen our program, which center on the African-American baseball study, said Ted Spencer, vice president and chief curator for the Hall of Fame and Museum. We want to provide a more substantial database of history and make the summer more meaningful by adding special programs to it. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum had put together this quality art exhibit. The theme is perfect and very timely for our aim this summer.
Shades of Greatness is the first-ever collaborative professional art exhibition inspired by Negro leagues baseball. Raymond Doswell, curator and education director for the NLBM, wanted to offer a new interpretation of the story of the Negro leagues, one that differed from the painted portraiture that dominated Negro leagues art. The NLBM brought the exhibit proposal to a group of artists, the majority of whom reside in the Kansas City area, where the NLBM is located. Artists were given a guided tour of the NLBM, viewed presentations by former players like Buck O'Neil and read about the Negro leagues.
We wanted to bring non-baseball fans into the history [of the Negro leagues] by issuing a fine art exhibit, Doswell said. Those who are interested in art and culture will see this art, and those who are baseball fans will get a deeper understanding when they see this exhibit. We wanted to move visitors beyond what they would see in a typical sports art collection, like giant baseball cards. We wanted them to see something original and create conversation about the Negro leagues. Charter a school bus for an exciting school trip.
The piece is one of 35 original works on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. in an art exhibition entitled Shades of Greatness. A national touring exhibition birthed from a partnership between the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and the Ford Motor Company, Shades of Greatness opened Sunday at the Hall of Fame thanks to a generous donation by former commissioner Fay Vincent and will be on display through the end of the fall.
It is one part of a year-long effort by the Hall of Fame to honor the contributions to baseball history made by the Negro leagues and their players in special ways, in addition to the Museum's permanent exhibit on African Americans in Baseball, Pride and Passion. The culmination of a five-year study on African-Americans in baseball resulted in a special election on Feb. 27. Twelve players and five executives were voted to be inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 30. A commemorative statue of Leroy Satchel Paige, honoring the legacy of the Negro leagues and all Negro league players will be dedicated July 29.
We are bringing together a number of efforts to strengthen our program, which center on the African-American baseball study, said Ted Spencer, vice president and chief curator for the Hall of Fame and Museum. We want to provide a more substantial database of history and make the summer more meaningful by adding special programs to it. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum had put together this quality art exhibit. The theme is perfect and very timely for our aim this summer.
Shades of Greatness is the first-ever collaborative professional art exhibition inspired by Negro leagues baseball. Raymond Doswell, curator and education director for the NLBM, wanted to offer a new interpretation of the story of the Negro leagues, one that differed from the painted portraiture that dominated Negro leagues art. The NLBM brought the exhibit proposal to a group of artists, the majority of whom reside in the Kansas City area, where the NLBM is located. Artists were given a guided tour of the NLBM, viewed presentations by former players like Buck O'Neil and read about the Negro leagues.
We wanted to bring non-baseball fans into the history [of the Negro leagues] by issuing a fine art exhibit, Doswell said. Those who are interested in art and culture will see this art, and those who are baseball fans will get a deeper understanding when they see this exhibit. We wanted to move visitors beyond what they would see in a typical sports art collection, like giant baseball cards. We wanted them to see something original and create conversation about the Negro leagues. Charter a school bus for an exciting school trip.
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