The Baltimore Museum of Art presents a multimedia installation by Oletha DeVane
(Artdaily.org)

The Baltimore Museum of Art’s Spring House is transformed this summer with a multimedia installation by Baltimore-based artist Oletha DeVane. On view June 19 through October 20, 2019, Oletha DeVane: Traces of the Spirit features a selection from the artist’s ongoing spirit sculpture series. Seven works are displayed in an altar-like setting with the sound of water, referencing both the cooling spring that once ran through the Spring House’s structure and the forced Atlantic migration of the enslaved persons who labored in it. “This exhibition illuminates Oletha DeVane’s quest to communicate her vision of the painful and troubled specificities of black American history side-by-side with her embrace of a pan-spiritual relationship to the divine,” said Christopher Bedford, BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director. “We are delighted to present