![Side by side photographs of young Black women posing outside in front of cars and wearing t-shirts with the word love](https://museum.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Blas-Love-pair-2560x930px.jpg)
Atlanta-based artist Nydia Blas was born and raised in Ithaca, part of a local community studded with names beloved locally and known nationwide, from her aunt Beverly J. Martin to Dorothy Cotton, Alex Haley, Cecil A. Malone, and Ruth Carol Taylor. Love, You Came from Greatness is a new body of work portraying Black families in Ithaca and created in response to a collection of Black family albums held by Cornell University Library.
This talk was supported by gifts made in memory of Richard Sukenik ’59.