Howardena Pindell is an outspoken artist, writer, curator, and professor whose career reflects the spirit of a creative risk taker, seasoned traveler, and an advocate

For more than four decades, Maren Hassinger (b. 1947) has been recognized as a pioneering artist who mindfully explores our relationship to nature, movement, and

Fiber is a medium of enormous complexity, versatility, tenacity, and longevity that has been mastered by women from the earliest beginnings of human history. Brides of

For many years, Renée Stout has used her alter ego Fatima Mayfield, a fictitious herbalist/fortuneteller, as a vehicle to role-play and confront issues such as

The Museum’s presentation of Posing Beauty in African American Culture featured more than seventy-five photographs by leading, emerging, and amateur photographers. It explored the ways in which

The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art invited students, faculty, staff, Friends of the Museum, alumnae, and other stakeholders to help select the objects featured

Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists (September 6 – December 1, 2012) featured works by Chakaia Booker, Sonya Clark, Maya Freelon Asante, Maren Hassinger, Martha Jackson

Faith Ringgold (b. 1930) is well-known as the progenitor of the African American story quilt revival that began in the late 1970s. In the 1960s,

When the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art was established in 1996, it became the repository for the art collection that Spelman College had amassed