Threaded
February 2, 2024 – May 24, 2024
Threaded at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art presents a selection of quilts and contemporary artworks created by Black women working in textiles. This show is spun from seven newly-conserved quilts from Gee’s Bend, Alabama in the Spelman College permanent collection, and one from Clark Atlanta University’s collection. Threaded places Gee’s Bend quilts and prints in conversation with contemporary artworks made from materials and techniques that expand beyond the category of “quilt.” This exhibition features tapestries made of cotton, kente cloth, silk, wool, sateen, corduroy, chiffon, pima cloth, polyester, lace, velvet, and hand-dyed fabrics – adorned with cowrie shells, beads, broaches, and floating on wall paper. The works are united by materials, and a legacy of women using fabrics from around the house to keep loved ones warm, and to bear witness to our stories.
Artists featured in Threaded
Louisiana Bendolph
Mary Lee Bendolph
Polly Bennett
Willie Ann Benning
Bisa Butler
Helen McBride Richter
Flora Moore
Ruth Pettway Mosely
Ebony G. Patterson
Loretta Pettway
Bettie Bendolph Seltzer
Phyllis Stephens
Sonie Joi Thompson-Ruffin
Qualeasha Wood
Billie Zangewa
The Black American Portraits Symposium opening conversation moderated by author Naima Keith and featuring artists Bisa Butler, Calida Rawls, and Amy Sherald.
The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art partnered with the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective to host “Black American Portraits: A Symposium” on Mar. 2-3 in the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D., Academic Center Auditorium.
The Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative exhibition opened with an artists talk between Harmonia Rosales and Spelman Professor Emeritus, Arturo Lindsay. In this conversation about art and the African diaspora, they discuss art-making, identity, and the influence of the orishas.
Originally filmed August 18, 2023 in front of a live audience in the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center Auditorium.
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To inspire and enrich the Spelman College community and the general public primarily through art by and about women of the African Diaspora.
Mailing address:
350 Spelman Lane, Box 1526
Atlanta, GA 30314 29201
Phone: 404.270.5607
Email: museum@spelman.edu
February 2 – May 24, 2024
Wednesday – Saturday
12pm – 5pm
The Museum is Closed Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Holidays and Spelman campus breaks.