James Fuentes is pleased to present a solo exhibition of sculptures by Joe Minter. Joe Minter was
born 1943 in Birmingham, Alabama, where he lives and works today. In 1989 Minter began constructing his "African Village in America,” a quarter-acre, densely packed sculptural environment built
around his home. The site is an intensely personal expression of an epic historic and cultural vision—
driven by an awareness that much of the story of African American history and experience might never
be told, and that the contributions of the thousands of people who took part in the battle for civil …