Join us for a talk with visiting artist and Florida Highwaymen member Mary Ann Carroll.

As part of Black History Month programming, the U.S. Embassy, Ottawa is organizing an exhibition of paintings by the Florida Highwaymen at SAW Gallery from 5 – 29 February. The Florida Highwaymen were a group of 26 African-American landscape painters that formed during the 1950s in Fort Pierce, Florida. Their careers took shape in a time and place where pursuing a career as an artist presented an alternative to working in citrus groves and labor camps. Denied access to private galleries due to segregation, the Highwaymen made a living selling their work door to door and from their cars along Florida’s eastern coastal roads.

Mary Ann Carroll, the only female artist in the group, will be travelling to Ottawa for the opening of the exhibition. We are happy to invite you to Carleton University Art Gallery to hear Mary Ann speak about her life, art, and her experience as a female African-American painter during the Civil Rights Movement.

For more information on the exhibition, please visit: http://www.lapetitemortgallery.com/february-2016/

This event is free and open to everyone!