Common Ground is an exhibit of twelve African-American Artists, curated by Roland Mazuca, Education and Gallery Director of the Carver Community Cultural Center. The artwork was culled from the SBC Collection of Twentieth Century American Art and includes works by Romare Bearden, James Bettison, John Biggers, Beverly Buchanan, Willie Cole, Sam Gilliam, Loïs Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Carroll Sockwell, Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, and William T. Williams. Together they represent a spectrum of artists working in different media, techniques, and imagery that illustrate the variety and complexity of the African-American experience. The work of Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence embodies the African-American work experience. Willie Cole’s poetic Untitled, 1994, six glass panels with etched images of irons is a paean to all domestic workers, but in particular to his grandmothers. The work of John Biggers has immediately recognizable African motifs and Loïs Mailou Jones mixes those motifs with colorful cutouts reminiscent of Matisse. Beverly Buchanan’s Miss Hester’s Place, highly personal, narrative sculpture is firmly rooted in the rural South. Sam Gilliam, Carroll Sockwell, and William T. Williams are involved in more formal and subtle expressions of self.