The Webber Gallery’s latest exhibit, “Perfect Black: Visual Expressions of the Southern, Rural, African American Experience,” opens Monday, Nov. 6 and runs through Thursday, Dec. 7. Join us Friday, Nov. 17, 5 p.m. at the Webber Gallery for a reception.

The “Perfect Black: Visual Expressions of the Southern, Rural, African American Experience” exhibition is a competitive, southeastern regional exhibition. Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson’s 2021 book of Poetry, Perfect Black, leans on her deep love for her rural roots and a passion for language and storytelling about girlhood, imbued with vivid imagery of growing up in Southern Appalachia. It is with this same muse that the Webber Gallery and the College of Central Florida has called upon artists to submit their own works of this theme for this upcoming exhibition.