Artist
Lava Thomas
born Los Angeles, CA 1958
- Also known as
- Lavynell Thomas
- Born
- Los Angeles, California, United States
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![A photograph of a figure looking at Requiem for Charleston at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.](http://cdn.saam.media/AEkgGmhxcUMKKu_7NiLJvHDywyw/960/0/center/cover/jpg/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ec1vt3scx7rr.cloudfront.net%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2F2018-05%2FIMG_6739.jpg)
Seeing Things05/11/2018
The other day, my colleague, Libby, and I walked through the museum in search of an artwork we could talk about. And though each artwork has a story to tell, Lava Thomas's "Requiem for Charleston," the artist's response to the church massacre at Mother Emanuel in 2015, spoke the most to us, in a quietly powerful way (if such a thing is possible).
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