Celebrated Art Work

"The Passion Keeper "

By India Cruise-Griffin
Art Teacher, Richmond High School

We R Proud! Richmond Community School is excited to announce that "The Passion Keeper", by Richmond High School Art Teacher India Cruise-Griffin, has been chosen to appear in the Represent Art Exhibition at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, IN.

India Cruise-Griffin explains her art work:

"The Passion Keeper” is a picture about life as a woman, not only African American women, but all women alike. How we handle problems of the everyday and sometimes how the everyday can easily handle us. The” Passion Keeper” illustrates the hope that one has for mankind who surrounds her (the fish) and by giving part of herself (the keys) and keeping the passion of living, ongoing and alive.

The Exhibition runs from January 21st through July 15^th at the Indiana State Museum.

REPRESENT is an exhibition Celebrating Indiana’s African American Artist who have lived and worked in Indiana. The Exhibition showcases outstanding talent and inspiration ranging from William Edouard Scott’s French easel paintings in the early 1900s to the harmonic color of Fredrick Hines’ mid–century canvasses to the numerous pieces by current artist like India Cruse-Griffin, Mason Archie and Walter Lobyn Hamilton who paint, photograph, sculpt, and make textile, ceramics or collage artwork. These Artists have contributed much- and continue to contribute-to the cultural history of the state. -Indiana State Museum

Congratulations Mrs. Cruise-Griffin!