The Cape Cod Museum of Art (CCMoA) is honored to collaborate with Zion Union Heritage Museum (ZUHM) to celebrate Black History Month with an exhibition of several of Zion’s resident artists: Michael Alfano, Sean Cassidy, Pamela Chatterton-Purdy, Joseph V. Diggs, Carl Lopes, Robin J. Miller, and Claudia Smith-Jacobs.

“We are excited to put the spotlight on these artists’ beautiful and thought-provoking artworks that inform us of the unique history and contributions of people of color to the Cape,” said Benton Jones, acting director of CCMoA.

ZUHM resident artist Pamela Chatterton-Purdy who has created a series of 37 icons that mark the history of the civil rights movement said, "Lest we forget, the Zion Union Heritage Museum continues to educate that Civil Rights is not a dead issue, especially given the current political climate.”  Her icons are all on display at ZUHM and she is represented in this show with an archival print of her recent icon of Emanuel 9, the original of which in the Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where members were brutally murdered in 2015.