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Taking pride of place in a new exhibit at New York's Museum of Biblical Art— literally — is a 12-foot hand-crocheted artwork of cotton and acrylic yarn by New York artist Xenobia Bailey entitled “Sistah Paradise’s Great Walls of Fire Revival Tent; Mystic Seer; Faith Healer; Enchantress Extraordinaire.” RNS photo by Gina Fuentes Walker/Courtesy the Museum of Biblical Art
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(RNS3-feb27) Taking pride of place in a new exhibit at New York’s Museum of Biblical Art— literally — is a 12-foot hand-crocheted artwork of cotton and acrylic yarn by New York artist Xenobia Bailey entitled “Sistah Paradise’s Great Walls of Fire Revival Tent; Mystic Seer; Faith Healer; Enchantress Extraordinaire.” For use with RNS-BLACKS-BIBLE, transmitted on February 27, 2013, RNS photo courtesy New York’s Museum of Biblical Art.

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