An Interview with Virgie Patton-Ezelle

Abstract

I don't remember when Ifirst became aware of blackfigure vases, but I do remember what I thought: these have to be the blackfolks of ancient Greece that people never talk about. At the age of ten or thirteen, maybe during one of my many visits to the Cleveland Museum of Artor while studying World History in a junior high school class-it must have struck me that the blackfigures prancing around the circumference of these elegantly shaped vessels were like me. In her recent series of Black Figure paintings, Virgie Patton-Ezelle made my wishful