Permanent Collection February 26, 2007

Thomas Gibbons' 'Permanent Collection' brings to life the conflict between the newly appointed African American director and a museum's longtime Caucasian education director who holds strongly to the museum's exclusionary charter. Fueled by an overzealous newspaper reporter, the two men face off across the great racial divide, struggling over the amount of space - literal and metaphorical - made available to African Americans by the white-dominated culture.