Dixon’s final ‘Black Artists in America’ exhibition explores 20th, 21st centuries
"Sixteen Men Make a Rod," in Honduran mahogany, is by Memphis artist Frank Hayden. (Courtesy Dixon Gallery & Gardens)
Earnestine Jenkins, an art-history professor at the University of Memphis for nearly 25 years, curated the exhibition “Black Artists in America: From the Bicentennial to September 11.”
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Olivia Cyrus
Olivia Cyrus is an intern with The Daily Memphian, originally from Collierville. She currently studies English at Yale University and has reported for The Yale Daily News and The Sacramento Bee.
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