Accra Shepp "The Tobacco Project"
Gallery 138
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Gallery 138 presents The Tobacco Project, a mixed media installation by Accra Shepp. In this new series, Shepp investigates the cultural contradictions of tobacco by documenting the lives of tobacco plantation owners and migrant workers on farms in Kentucky, Georgia, and North Carolina. The exhibition includes life sized photographic portraits printed on tobacco leaves grown by the farmers, photographs of the interior and exteriors of the farms, jars of dirt from which the
tobacco was grown, and tobacco ashes in tins of chewing tobacco.
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Schedule
from May 08, 2008 to June 07, 2008
Opening Reception: May 8, 2008, 6–8 pm.