A selection from the Isaiah Rice Photograph Collection, titled “The Way We Were,” will be on display at WCQS through October 24th.
The photos will be on display through November at WCQS, located at 73 Broadway, Asheville, and open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The exhibit is curated by the photographer’s grandson Darin Waters, assistant professor of history, and Gene Hyde, head of Special Collections at UNC Asheville, and is on loan from UNC Asheville’s Special Collections in Ramsey Library. The photos were donated to Special Collections by Rice’s daughter, Marian R. Waters.
“We’re honored to work with Dr. Waters and the university to exhibit Isiah Rice’s vibrant photographs of everyday life in the African-American community of Asheville before it experienced so much change,” said WCQS General Manager and CEO David Feingold.
The full collection contains more than 1,000 images taken by Isaiah Rice. The photographs document Asheville’s African-American community from the 1950s through the 1970s, with many on display for the first time.
The collection was unveiled on Oct. 23, 2015 at the second annual African Americans in Western North Carolina Conference at UNC Asheville. The 2016 exhibit is sponsored by The McClure Fund, Troy & Sons, and UNC Asheville.
To see more of the digitized photo collection, visit toto.lib.unca.edu.
(Image: Photo of Isaiah Rice.)