Finding ‘Better Days’ through art
New CU Art Museum exhibit highlights the ways in which art meets challenging times and finds the sometimes-elusive silver lining
It began not with the more known Confederate battle flag—the infamous stars and bars—but with the lesser-known , a white linen towel waved on April 9, 1865, by Confederate troops when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, ending the U.S. Civil War.
In 2019, textile and social practice artist Sonya Clark made the flag of truce the focal point of her work , recreating the “cloth that brokered peace and represented the promise ofreconciliation.” The University of Colorado Art Museum recently acquired Clark’s 2022 print, Confederat