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| Selma Burke |
The Sculptural Legacy Of Selma Burke, 1900-1995
by Dr. Lori Verderame, a 2003 Anyone Can Fly Foundation Professional Scholars Grant recipient.
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Selma Hortense Burke was born on December 31, 1900 in Mooresville, Iredell County, North Carolina to Mary L. Elizabeth Jackson Cofield Burke, a homemaker/educator and Neal Burke, a Methodist minister.  Neal Burke had traveled the world in the course of his life working as a chef and preaching. Selma’s father collected numerous objets d’art on his travels and brought them back to the Burke’s Mooresville home. These objects from the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe fascinated Selma, but alas, Neal Burke died when Selma was only 12 years old. Thus her accessibility to such objects was short lived, but her paternal uncles worked at religious missionaries in Africa and continued to bring Selma and her siblings the African ritual objects, masks, and other sculptural pieces removed in an effort to teach the African natives Christianity. This provided Selma with a unique opportunity to live in
the company of African sculpture. She recalled, "I have known African art all my life. At a
time when this sculpture was misunderstood and laughed at, my family had the attitude that
these were beautiful objects."
--Dr. Lori Verderame, 2003
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