Exhibitions

ROAD THROUGH MIDNIGHT: A CIVIL RIGHTS MEMORIAL - PHOTOGRAPHS AND ORAL HISTORIES BY JESSICA INGRAM

Tennessee State Museum / 505 Deaderick St. October 30, 2015 - May 15, 2016

Jessica Ingram

An exhibition of 30 photographic images created by photographer Jessica Ingram, who was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, is currently on view at the State Museum. The exhibit, Road through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial, includes both photographs and oral histories by artist Jessica Ingram. It is on view in the museum’s Changing Galleries and is free to the public. Ingram traveled to various locations in the American South associated with the turbulence of the 20th century Civil Rights era to document these important historic sites.

Ingram, a native Tennessean, is currently an assistant professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The concept for the photo-documentary was inspired by Ingram’s visit to a former slave market in Montgomery, Alabama, in 2009.