Piccolo art show confronts Charleston’s roots in rice plantations
Jun 03, 2026
With a brush in one hand and her nursing newborn in the other, Michelle Kaye Washington, 34, paints individual rice grains. Stroke by stroke, she creates a scene of enslaved Black hands wading through a pile of rice. Her brushwork is microscopic, but together the grains fold on top of on
e another to create something […]
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