Archiving Identity & Preserving Our Image
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 7 p.m. Join us for a conversation about agency, iconography, authenticity, and the archive. Please register here. Participants include Rhea L. Combs, Ph.D., Supervisory Museum Curator, Photography & Film and Director, Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Art, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Myra Greene,...
Yoga in the Museum
Mondays, February 3 – May 11, 202012:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Enjoy yoga classes surrounded by works of art that emphasize balance, focus, and strength. Each class is led by a yoga instructor of color and is appropriate for all levels. The Yoga in the Museum teaching roster is below: February 3 and 10Ona Hawk...
Opening Conversation and Reception of ‘Theaster Gates: Black Image Corporation’
Theaster Gates: Black Image Corporation (January 28 – May 16, 2020) explores the legacy of the Johnson Publishing Company archive. Please join us for an opening conversation with Daisy Desrosiers, Associate Curator of Theaster Gates: Black Image Corporation and Director of Programs at the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College, and Andrea Barnwell...
Quaint Revolt: ‘BLACK IMAGE CORPORATION’ MAKES U.S. DEBUT WITH SPELMAN MUSEUM
Jan 5, 2020 Click here to read article.
ARTS ATL: Year in Review: Art + Design scene benefits from Bunnen, Gay, Mann, Pecou + more
December 27, 2019 by Kathy Janich Excerpt: The Spelman Museum began the year with a small but splendid exhibition by Amy Sherald, whose career has soared since she painted Michelle Obama’s official portrait, and closed with Mildred Thompson: The Atlanta Years, 1986–2003, an equally fine, and perhaps more important, exploration of the artist’s multifaceted oeuvre. See more...
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