In 2016, the Peter Norton Family Foundation donated a collection of works by artists from across the African Diaspora in honor of President Emerita Bevery Daniel Tatum’s tenure as the ninth president of Spelman College. Artists whose works were included in this gift include Sonia Boyce (British Afro-Caribbean, born 1962), Isaac Julien (British, born 1960), Glenn Ligon (American, born 1960), Hew Locke (British, born 1959), Chris Ofili (British, born 1968), Adrian Piper (American, born 1948), Lorna Simpson (American, born 1960), and Carrie Mae Weems (American, born 1953).