Heritage: Southern Vernacular

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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Heritage: Southern Vernacular

The Haley Gallery, a contemporary art gallery at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, presents Heritage: Southern Vernacular. The exhibition will feature quilts made by women in the Gee’s Bend community of Alabama, as well as sculptures and two-dimensional works from Black vernacular artists who are also associated with the state.

Gee's Bend quiltmakers featured in the exhibit include Loretta Pettway Bennett, Marlene Bennett Jones, Polly Middleton, Cathy Mooney, Doris Pettway Mosely, Cynthia Pettway, Emma Mooney Pettway, Mary Margaret Pettway, Stella Pettway, Andrea Pettway Williams and Shu’Nae Williams. Complementing the quilts are sculptures, paintings and works on paper, by Richard Dial, Thorton Dial, Charlie Lucas, Betty Sue Matthews and Mose Tolliver. The exhibition, which is guest-curated by Paul Barrett, is free and open to the public beginning the evening of Nov. 7 through Jan. 7, 2025.

The artists included in Heritage: Southern Vernacular have been exhibited at museums including the Frist Art Museum, High Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.