Free Entry & Open to the Public

This exhibition showcases Dr. Lisa Cain stunning collection of figurative folk art and collage, highlighting Dr. Cain’s deep connection to the cultural heritage of her upbringing in the South. Growing up, Dr. Cain worked alongside her grandmother in the fields as a girl, while her father taught her chemistry which lead her to becoming a neuroscientist, of which only 4% are Black and even fewer are Black women.

Set against colorful acrylics & historic photos of daily life in the rural South, as a Mississippi native, Dr. Cain aims to send a message of hope and inspiration through her fond memories from the past in this exhibit “Grandma’s Hands.”

“I am a memory painter and a proud product of the hands that picked cotton and farmed the land. I am proud to have the ability to pay honor to the brilliance of those individuals of the old days, a brilliance that was not necessarily shaped by the pages of a textbook, but by the pages of life. Some of the people that I paint about were extremely intelligent individuals who never finished high school or college because they had to work or because they had to raise their families. Every story that I tell is one that focuses on the wealthy inheritance that I received from my parents and those in my community, a wealth that does not rust and cannot be destroyed with time. I hope that through my art I can remind society of the importance of retaining some of the culture of the past generations.”-Dr. Cain