Guests are invited to create a personalized pocket-sized silhouette inspired by the works of Letitia Huckaby, on view in Figurative Histories. While learning about the history of silhouettes as a form of portraiture, visitors will make a one-of-a-kind keepsake and develop a written story to shed light on their unique shadow portrait. All supplies are included; children under 12 years old require adult supervision. 

Letitia Huckaby’s A Living Requiem is a series of silhouette prints depicting living descendants of Charley and Kate Thorp, a formerly enslaved couple who played an important role in the founding of Fort Worth's Texas Christian University in 1873. Guests are encouraged to view these works and the varying approaches to figurative representation found throughout the exhibition, before joining the ArtLab in order to consider the way Huckaby uses the medium to mine the past and gather inspiration for their own creation.