Roberto Lugo's glazed stoneware artwork Selma is inside a protective clear case on a white platform. It is a Panathenaic amphorae ochre ceramic vessel with a narrower neck and bottom and a curved wide center. The motif seems to be black-figure style. On Selma, classical design elements are mixed with contemporary urban ones including bubble lettering and writing reminiscent of graffiti. Based on the object label, Selma "includes a hand-painted depiction of one of the three freedom marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965."
I was pleasantly surprised to see Roberto Lugo's artwork, Selma, which was on view for the first time. Lugo honors the history changing freedom marches from Selma to Montgomery by juxtaposing Black American civil rights movement iconography with classical Greek styled ceramic pottery.