'This is something that's actually going to take a lot of time, because history itself, as most people know, is a very complicated narrative,' Marshall said.
Kerry James Marshall, a contemporary Black artist renowned for his wide-ranging works depicting African American life, has been chosen to design new stained-glass windows that will replace Confederate imagery at the Washington National Cathedral, the Associated Press reported.
The old windows"were a barrier to our mission and impediment to worship in this place, and they had no place being in sacred space," the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, dean of the cathedral, said Thursday. The setting is particularly significant in the massive neo-Gothic cathedral, which is filled with iconography depicting the American story in glass, stone and other media, with images ranging from presidents to famous cultural figures and state symbols.
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