CHARLESTON, SC (WCBD) – The South Carolina State Museum has opened an exhibit honoring the nine lives lost in the 2015 shooting at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church.
The exhibit, called Requiem for Mother Emanuel, features a series of nine paintings by South Carolina artist Leo Twiggs. Twiggs started working on the paintings a short time after the shooting
“My paintings are testimonies to the nine who were slain,” Twiggs said. “But I also record another moment: our state’s greatest moment; a response that moved us from tragedy to redemption. For one shining moment, we looked at each other not as different races, but as human beings.”
The exhibit will also feature a handmade prayer quilt, letters, flowers and other items left outside Mother Emanuel in the days and weeks after the attack.
The items will be on display until April 29.
