The Fine Arts Building (FAB) Gallery at South Carolina State University will present, “Ancestral Reflections: The Thompson Family,” a collection of paintings and spoken word poetry, inspired by family history through the context of African American and local history on display from February 18th-February 22nd, 2024.
Ancestral Reflections: The Thompson Family will visually feature the individual experiences of the relatives of the Thompson family from the Wagener-Salley communities of eastern Aiken County, South Carolina. The paintings will feature an enslaved relative who demonstrated defiance that led to her being punished by the slave auctioneer, a relative who picked cotton to survive the hardships of sharecropping, a relative who survived slavery and later became a successful agribusinessman, and a relative who
