Black Cat Studios Design

I’ve done many invitations for the Tubman African American Museum.  Most of them are for gallery openings and have artwork supplied by the artist for use on the invitation.  I was happy to be challenged by the Tubman to come up with an invitation idea that couldn’t use the artwork featured in the gallery opening.  They wanted to keep the new panel of the mural “From Africa to America” under wraps until the big night of the unveiling.  The first thing that came to my mind was a piece of art covered by a sheet that gets pulled off for the unveiling.  Luckily, I had a huge canvas left over from my college days that I’ve been meaning to paint over for awhile (a nice painting for my son’s room).  I threw a white sheet over it and photographed it.  Then, I used photos of the other panels of the mural as a background and designed the invitation.  The finished product is what you see above.  I hope they had an excellent turnout to their event.

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