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Sheboygan visionaries

by Deanna Isaacs

Dr. Charles Smith and other artists find a new home at the Art Preserve. Before Black Lives Matter was a movement, Black lives mattered in the work of Dr. Charles Smith. A Vietnam vet and prodigious self-taught artist, he's spent decades recreating the Black American experience in figurative sculpture, from the time of the slave ships to Harriet Tubman, MLK, and beyond.…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 10:20am on June 23, 2021