Bernice Appelin-Williams: Art Exhibit Celebrating Black History Month

February 25: St. Philip’s College, Morgan Gallery, East 1801 Martin Luther King Drive, San Antonio, TX.

Appelin-Williams, a mixed-media artist, educator and urban planner, began her career in the 1980’s. Interest in assemblage and collage was inspired by Joseph Cornell, Louise Nevelson and Romare Bearden.

Following an exhibition she shared with artist Betye Saar at Austin’s Laguna Gloria Museum she began creating work that drew on mysticism, spirituality, the cultures and identities reflecting her mixed heritage, and the ever present misconceptions and/or inaccurate history associated with African Americans.