Words & Images by LeeNora Parlor

This online gallery features works displayed at the Old State House Museum during 2007 as part of the exhibit A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans, as well as numerous additional works.

Arkansas black folk artist LeeNora Parlor explores the juncture of history and place from which identity is derived. Her work plumbs a world of deceptively simple, almost cryptic landscapes populated by characters with complex and powerful faces. Along the way she discovers “who I really am” in a place somewhere between memories and dreams.