Exhibitions
Current Exhibitions
Exhibition Hall
The Rosa Parks Museum will host returning artist V.L. Cox's A Still, Small Voice exhibit.
Cox was reminded of the Nina Simone quote, 鈥淗ow can you be an artist and not reflect
the times?鈥� and used that as her guiding principle while developing this exhibition.
She took the title A Still Small Voice from 1 Kings 19:11-13 in the Christian Bible
that references the whispered voice of God during a difficult moral choice. This exhibition
examines how religion in the United States has played, and continues to play, a major
role in Civil Rights and Social Justice movements鈥oth as a positive and negative.
The pieces included in A Still Small Voice reflect the dichotomy of how religion, both historically and contemporarily, is used to defend systems of belief. One aspect of the exhibition depicts how the religious tenets of faith, love, and unity compelled leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis and sustained the masses of civil rights/social justice protestors, while the other side of white supremacists, Christian nationalists, and the Ku Klux Klan often uses religion to justify their hate, xenophobia, and deemed superiority. This exhibition embraces the message that separate or second-class status is never equal, and cruelty is where we, as decent human beings, must draw the line and simply love one another.
Reception and Artist Meet-and-Greet: Thursday, November 14th, 6:00PM-7:30PM
Exhibit runs November 14th, 2024, through June 21st, 2025.
Community Gallery
We are currently showcasing the history of the Alabama 9th District Selma-Montgomery region of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.