Ubuntu Germantown: Black-owned images gallery opens in Philadelphia
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A putting floor-to-ceiling graphic from Montana’s Glacier National Park is the most significant work hanging in Ubuntu Fine Artwork Gallery, just one of the latest additions to Germantown Avenue.
The enormous centerpiece is identified as “The Isaac,” and it arrived to lifetime immediately after gallery operator Steven CW Taylor knowledgeable a serendipitous conference in the course of a 12-mile hike via the wilderness in 2018. Its namesake, Issac, is a shut buddy, but was only a stranger at the begin of the icy Montana trek.
“He certain me to stroll a mile off the path, and then walking a mile off the path, I bought this extraordinary shot of a stream that’s designed by the glacier soften,” Taylor recalled.
The 39-12 months-outdated Philadelphia indigenous opened the gallery on