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Indepth Arts News:
"AMERICAN HOLLOW"
2000-09-16 until 2000-11-19
Dayton Art Institute
Dayton, OH,
USA
A nationally touring exhibition, AMERICAN HOLLOW features 60 black-and-white and color photographs
with a selection of handmade quilts, family scrapbooks and photo albums and original folk art from an
Applachian family in Mudlick Hollow, Kentucky. The exhibition complements an important documentary
film made by Rory Kennedy (daughter of Robert F. Kennedy) and presented at the prestigious Sundance
Film Festival in 1999 - it offers a life-affirming exploration of the lives, hopes and dreams of a unique and
distinctly American family-the Bowling clan.
AMERICAN HOLLOW will be an important experience for
viewers as a way of dispelling old stereotypes and becoming familiar with some extraordinary yet little
recognized truly American individuals. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an introductory
essay by the renowned Harvard child psychologist Robert Coles and interviews with members of the
Bowling family. Also included with the exhibition is the 90-minute Rory Kennedy documentary. The
exhibition is supported by the Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, FL and touring venues include the
Newseum (New York), JB Speed Museum (Louisville), The Dayton Art Institute and others. ADMISSION:
$5 for adults; $3 for seniors and students 12 & over; FREE for museum members.
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