African folk art collection hangs in Natchez museum

PAM FINLEY holds a carving done by a New Orleans artist that is part of the African-American folk art owned by her and her husband, John Finley, at the National Association for the Preservation of African-American Culture Museum in Natchez. The art piece is one of several in a collection of west African and African-American folk art that was initially housed at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum in Biloxi when that building was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. The nearly 300-piece collection has found a new home at the Natchez museum.