My Modern Met: 250 Years from Mr. Freedman, Solo Exhibit by Fletcher Williams, III at Navy Yard CHS
July 10, 2026
The United States recently celebrated its 250th anniversary, and Charleston artist Fletcher Williams III is marking the occasion with a new solo exhibition titled 250 Years from Mr. Freedman. Presented in conjunction with the United States’ semiquincentennial, the exhibition centers on a series of sculptural wall reliefs made from the salvaged tin roof of a burned Freedman’s Cottage in Charleston. Williams transforms this material into a meditation on memory and inheritance, using it to anchor a fictional figure, Mr. Freedman, whose life spans centuries and moves between Charleston and the broader American South.
