Artist
Lava Thomas
born Los Angeles, CA 1958
- Also known as
- Lavynell Thomas
- Born
- Los Angeles, California, United States
Works by this artist (1 item)
Artist
Date2016
tambourines, pyrographic calligraphy on lambskin, acrylic discs and braided trim
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Lava Thomas discusses her work Requiem for Charleston, which honors the nine men and women who died in a shooting on June 17, 2015, inside the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The artist explains her use of materials, including tambourines, black lambskin, black acrylic disks, and pyrographic calligraphy.
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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).

Howard Kaplan
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