For The Love Of Alabama Art; Marcia Weber’s Journey From Collector To Gallery Owner
By Anne Kristoff
Marcia Weber wasn’t supposed to be a gallery owner. Her plan was to teach.
But while working at the Montgomery Museum of Art, that plan went by the wayside.
The Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., was planning a landmark exhibition of American black folk art, and the museum curators were having trouble helping Montgomery artist Mose Tolliver prepare.“His vocabulary, his Southern accent, was a little difficult for some of the curators there at the time,” she said. “I was very lucky that I got to go and meet Mose and spend a good bit of time with him.”
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