Meet the Artist: Lava Thomas on “Requiem for Charleston”

Lava Thomas discusses her work “Requiem for Charleston,” which honors the nine men and women who died in a shooting on June 17, 2015, inside the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The artist explains her use of materials, including tambourines, black lambskin, black acrylic disks, and pyrographic calligraphy.