FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

CLEMENTINE HUNTER DAY

Sunday, March 24th

 

NATCHITOCHES – Mayor Posey would like to notify the public the City of Natchitoches will declare Sunday, March 24^th as “Clementine Hunter Day” per the request of the Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell. 

 

On Sunday, March 24^th a locally produced filmed documentary, Clementine Hunter’s World will be screed in the Oprah Winfrey Theater at the National Museum of History and Culture in Washington, D.C. where the museum’s current exhibition is Clementine Hunter:  Life on Melrose Plantation.  Following the screening, there will be a Panel Discussion featuring the filmmaker Art Shiver, along with local resident, Tom Whitehead.

 

The film combines vintage photographs with Clementine Hunter’s images to bring her story to life through a cinematic tour of the African House murals.  The film has won first place for short documentaries at film festivals in Lake Charles, Louisiana and Kilgore, Texas. 

 

Clementine Hunter is known on a local, state, and national level.  Picking up her first brush in the late 1940s, Hunter painted thousands of images recalling her life on a 20^th century plantation.  Hunter quietly painted depictions of plantation life in Melrose, Louisiana by the light of a kerosene lamp.  Hunter painted life as she knew it and in doing so left a visual diary of colorful tales of plantation life in the Cane River Country. 

 

For more information, please contact the Mayor’s Office at (318) 352-2772.

 

           

           

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