Congratulations to Summer Wheat on the installation of “Foragers” at the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, North Carolina. The monumental public artwork spans four stories, 3,720 square feet, filling 96 windows. It creates an illusion of stained glass and casts vibrant color across the museum’s atrium space.
“In so many ways, Foragers is a monumental tribute to all those anonymous female makers and laborers who have made North Carolina the place that it is today: the Catawba clay workers, the Cherokee basket makers, the enslaved and freed African-American fishers and farmers, the countless woodworkers, weavers, and quilters,” says Jen Sudul Edwards, PhD, the Mint’s chief curator and curator of contemporary art. We invite you to absorb the light, be transported by the color and contemplate the stories behind “Foragers,” on view until September 2022.