By: Ardis E. Parshall - September 15, 2017 Yes, I’ll go there. The LDS artist J. Kirk Richards is taking heat again for his image of Eve as a black woman, Eve and the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Initially greeted in the Mormon art world with excitement over the “daringness” of imagining Eve, “the mother of all living” – including white viewers of the image – as a black woman, the painting and its artist came under fire ...
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