Klein Arts & Culture in The Birmingham News

Karl Whitmire’s front page State of Denial article on November 27, 2002 was about antebellum house museums. After describing his experiences in the First White House of the Confederacy, the John W. Inzer Museum, and Magnolia Grove, confederate house museums funded by the state of Alabama, Whitmire turns to Klein Arts & Culture as a counterpoint, an example of a reparative way to interpret plantation houses. He reviews the founding of the organization by Theoangelo Perkins, the current Mayor of Harpersville, and Nell Gottlieb, and its mission of reconciliation through the arts and education. Whitmire attended the 2022 homecoming and the dedication of Tony Bingham’s sculpture Bearing Witness: Praise House - Sun Shadows and saw first hand what we are doing at the Wallace House. Click here for the newsprint version, the full transcript, and the section about Klein Arts & Culture.