Karon Davis uses plaster sculptures cast from real life to create striking vignettes that touch on African American history and experience. With her late husband, Noah Davis, Davis founded the much-lauded Underground Museum in Los Angeles. Located in a storefront space on West Washington Boulevard in the predominantly working-class neighborhood of Arlington Heights, the Underground Museum combines groundbreaking exhibitions with a robust roster of audience-centric programs.   In Bobby Seale and The People’s Free Food Program, a body cast of Bobby Seale, who founded the Black Panther Party along with Huey P. Newton, stands surrounded by grocery bags. The work references the Black Panthers’ program that provided hot meals to inner-city youth in Oakland, California, and other cities. Inspired by research about nutritional deficiencies among African American children, the Black Panthers believed that the alleviation of hunger and poverty to be an essential component of Black liberation. As an ensemble, the work’s objects serve as a powerful testament to the politicization of racial histories and the often misunderstood or misrepresented movement for Black emancipation.