#spelman college museum of fine art

[petervintonjr]

"It is very inspiring to release a figure from a piece of stone or wood. Very often, I look at (the) stone or wood for a year or longer. I will have completed the piece mentally before attacking the material."

You, or someone nearby to you, are very likely carrying around a Selma Hortense Burke sculpture in your pocket at this very moment.

Born in 1900 in Mooresville, North Carolina into a family of ten, Burke attended what would eventually be known as Winston-Salem University, where she unleashed her passion for art but decided that nursing was the more practical path to follow, and became an RN in Philadelphia in 1924 at the prestigious St. Agnes School of Nursing. It might be argued that this was correct choice at the time --certainly the career of a nurse provided much greater financial stability during the Great Depression-- but ultimately Selma's interests swung back to art and in 1935 she moved to New York.

It wasn't long before the Harlem Artists' Guild found its new star sculptor and teacher, and in very short order Selma was travelling throughout Europe --not only honing her skills, but also teaching and lecturing. In 1933 she received the Harmon Foundation award, cementing her role as one of the most influential artists of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1940 she secured an M.A. (Fine Arts) from Columbia and founded the Selma Burke School of Sculpture in New York City. During World War II Selma enlisted in the U.S. Navy --one of the very first Black women to do so. While she saw no overseas action, she worked on base at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and it was while there she learned of a New Deal art competition to depict a likeness of then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in celebration of the "four freedoms." Burke worked for two years on a bronze relief portrait, which not only won the competition (and to this day hangs in the Recorder Of Deeds Building), but in 1946 would become the basis for a specific denomination of U.S.-issued currency.

In other words, Burke's artwork is on the U.S. dime.*

Burke's career certainly didn't stop there; in 1968 she founded the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, which continued her mission of introducing art opportunities to disadvantaged inner-city youth. Amongst her many subjects have included likenesses of Duke Ellington, Mary McLeod Bethune (Lesson #49 in this series), and A. Philip Randolph (Lesson #68). Her work is on display at the Smithsonian, in Charlotte (significantly a nine-foot statue of Martin Luther King, which she completed in her eighties), at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta, and at her beloved Winston-Salem State University. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter presented Burke with a lifetime achievement award from the Women's Caucus for Art. She died in 1995 at the impressive age of 95.

* - No, it wasn't John Sinnock --even the U.S. Mint now acknowledges this plagiarism. Credit-stealing was and is still a thing, with Black artists.

[nishadesigns]

Afro-Cuban artist reimagines Renaissance art with Black people at the center-CNN-Nisha Designs

Currently on display at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta, the exhibit “Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative” entwines West African religion and art techniques of the Renaissance period. Pictured here: Rosales’ work “The Birth of Oshun.”Lucy Garrett/Harmonia Rosales CNN  —  Consider Michelangelo’s famous “Creation of Adam,” Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or Leonardo da…

[lboogie1906]

Lev T. Mills (December 11, 1938 - September 8, 2021) is a native of Tallahassee. He received his BA from FAMU; MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Post Graduate certificate from the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College-University of London. He was a professor at Spelman College. The dichotomy of his career in the visual arts has been a synthesis of teaching art and the compelling urgency to continue as a practicing artist. He classified himself as a “constructionist,” and his work has appeared in more than 100 group and solo exhibitions in the US, Europe, East, West, and North Africa. His work can be found in major private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the British Museum, London; the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Library of Congress, DC; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Museum of Modern Art, NY. He has published an artistic book of etchings and poems entitled, I Do and many of his works are featured in the following books: Art African-American; Black Artists on Art and Afro-American Printmakers: American Artist Today, Vol. 1. Some of his local commissions include a glass mosaic mural for a MARTA train station; the Atrium floor design for Atlanta’s City Hall Annex; a collaborative mixed-media construction at Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta, and a courtyard glass mosaic mural for the Atlanta Board of Education Building. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CmB6tpALpRe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[brooklynmuseum]

Hello, Atlanta! Our friends at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art will present Beverly Buchanan—Ruins and Rituals from September 24 to December 9. After closing here in March, Spelman reunited Buchanan’s works to bring this important exhibition to the state the artist called home for much of her adult life. If you have a friend in Atlanta who you think will enjoy this show, share this with them and tell them to check it out.

Posted by Gwen Arriaga Beverly Buchanan (American, 1940–2015). Untitled (Double Portrait of Artist with Frustula Sculpture), n.d. © Estate of Beverly Buchanan, courtesy of Jane Bridges

[jalylah]

This mix was commissioned by Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in conjunction with the exhibit 'Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities' on view February 9 – May 20, 2017. ‘women’s love rights: anthems from mentors and muses,’ convenes black women’s irreverent and inspired assertions of freedom, with emphasis on the revolutionary crucible of the 1970s. Like the blues women of a previous generation, these black women musicians and comedians were chiefly expressing what Angela Davis called “sovereignty in sexual matters,” a heavy but hushed component of freedom long aired in the artwork of Mickalene Thomas. 'women’s love rights' includes some artists featured in the current installation, some artists who have provided titular inspiration to Thomas’ past works and some artists whose style and self-possession reflects that of Thomas’ past subjects.

Click here more details on the exhibit.

women’s love rights: anthems from mentors and muses

“I Want to Be Evil” Eartha Kitt “You Got the Love” Chaka Khan / “I Like Sex” Marsha Warfield “Don't Call Her No Tramp” Betty Davis “Give It “ RAMP “Women's Love Rights” Laura Lee “Since I Laid My Burden Down” Lawanda Page “This Is It” Millie Jackson “Jasper Country Man” Bobbi Humphrey / “That Day” Nikki Giovanni “Get You Somebody New” Labelle “I've Never Been To Me” Randy Crawford “Share My Love” Gloria Jones / “August 2014 Interview” Mickalene Thomas “Do The Funky Do” Sister Sledge “Ha Ha Ha” The Sisters Love “Women's Lib” Lyn Collins “I Take My Fire With Me” Lea Roberts

[3thurs]

Third Thursday events and exhibitions for November 17

The next Third Thursday — the monthly evening of art in Athens, Georgia — is scheduled for Thursday, November 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. This schedule and each venue’s location and hours of operation are available at 3thurs.org.

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia

Yoga in the Galleries, 6 p.m. — Join us for a free yoga class surrounded by works of art in the galleries. Led by instructors from Five Points Yoga, this program is free and open to both beginner and experienced yogis. Sanitized mats are provided. This program is available both in-person (spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis; tickets are available at the front desk starting at 5:15 p.m.) and via Zoom (register at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEodu2trT4oE9Thwsjhw4i9Wyldjd2jFd9W).

Student Night, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. — Join the Georgia Museum of Art Student Association for a night of music, fun and themed activities to celebrate the latest exhibitions, including “Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund.” Student Night is generously sponsored by the UGA Parents Leadership Council.

On view:

“Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund” — This exhibition is the first large-scale survey of the Do Good Fund’s remarkable and sweeping collection of photography made in the South from the 1950s to the present.

“Infinity on the Horizon” — This exhibition highlights modern and contemporary objects in the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection by prominent and lesser-known artists that can be characterized as abstract landscapes. 

“Allison Janae Hamilton: Between Life and Landscape” — Allison Janae Hamilton’s works often include spectral figures to convey the role of nature in Black experience as beautiful and fragile, hopeful and haunted.

“In Dialogue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mentor and Muse” — This focused exhibition highlights Black artist Henry Ossawa Tanner’s impact on several younger artists: Palmer C. Hayden, William H. Johnson, William Edouard Scott and Hale Woodruff.

“Jane Manus, Undaunted” — Five large-scale sculptures by the Florida-based geometric sculptor.

“Kristin Leachman: Longleaf Lines” — Paintings by artist Kristin Leachman of an old-growth longleaf pine forest in southwest Georgia as part of her “Fifty Forests” project.

“Decade of Tradition: Highlights from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection” — Selections from Larry and Brenda Thompson’s gift of works by African American artists.

“Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art” — Works by premiere Spanish baroque painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Murillo, Pedro Orrente and others, on loan from Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery.

The museum’s days of operation are Tuesday – Sunday. Reserve a free ticket and see our policies at https://georgiamuseum.org/visit/.

ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art

ATHICA@675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200

Free Music Night, 7 – 9 p.m. — Sound Bathing, Exploration and Improvisation with Michael Pierce, John Kiran Fernandes, Shane Parish and Jon Vogt. 

“MOOD: 2022 Juried Exhibition” — Features the work of 37 contemporary artists from across the United States and Canada. Their work in all media explores or references MOOD, a term that has taken on a unique connotation on social media through its use thousands of times a day by individuals to express their temporal emotions with imagery, memes and an ever-changing collage of the media culture that surrounds us. #Mood is happy, sad, reflective, angstful, urgent, chill, colorful, somber, hungry, sleepy, angry, hopeful and more. The work on display was juried by Liz Andrews, executive director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.

ATHICA@CINÉ Gallery

“Familiar” — Photographs by Christy Bush.

Lyndon House Arts Center

“RE-, the Clarke County School District Student Art Exhibition” — Includes works by students from Kindergarten to 12th grade and media such as weaving, sculpture, photography, painting, drawing and collage. Also included are large collaborative works of art by classrooms and grades.

 “A Pattern of Moments” — Featuring artwork by Kate Burke, Rebecca Kreisler and Sylvia Schaefer. The three artists share a feminized aesthetic sensibility and color palette, reflected in their chosen material: thread, folded paper and quilted fabric

“Bess Carter: Arts Center Choice Award Winner” — During each Annual Juried Exhibition, the Lyndon House Arts Center curator selects an artist with a compelling, yet unseen, body of work worthy of in-depth viewing for a solo exhibition in the North Gallery. Bess Carter, who teaches art at Oconee County High School, will share art inspired by her family and “everyday beautifully imperfect life.”

“The Same, Yet Separate” — J Taran Diamond is a metalsmith and interdisciplinary craft artist. Diamond creates intricate ornate objects inspired by historic artifacts that investigate anti-Blackness within the material culture of the American South.  

“The Ties that Bind: The Paradox of Cultural Survival amid Climate Events: Works by Tamika Galanis and Anina Major” — This exhibition originated on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, during a residency in which artists examined cultural identity and sustainability through environmental relationships.  

The Athenaeum

“Smooooooooooooooth Operator” — Brooklyn-based artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed presents a new exhibition that examines the poetics and power of machine learning. She questions computation, the role of the reader and ritual in “Smooooooooooooooth Operator,” which considers the menace of smoothness. We know what a smooth thing is; we’ve run our hand over a surface without noticeable projections or interruptions. Smoothing as a practice shows up in music via quantization and again in image processing via filters. Both are procedures of standardization and forced patterning by disregarding dirty data (or noise) in the service of fulfilling the audience’s expectations. Smooth viewing is easy viewing because the brain doesn’t have to second guess what it is looking at. Smooth images, smooth text make smooth, speed readers.

tiny ATH gallery

Peter Loose, "Places of Peace” — This exhibition is dedicated to the late and beloved artist Art Rosenbaum and centers on the work that Peter created the night he learned of Art’s passing. Birds have always been his inspiration.

Hotel Indigo, Athens

ArtWall@Hotel Indigo: Photography by Lucy Reback and Megan Reilly — These New York-based photographers have been living and working in Athens for the past two years. The artists, who are also a couple, have never exhibited collaboratively. These works span five years; some were taken before the couple met, and others are intimate vignettes of their relationship. The fragmented assemblage of their combined work reinterprets these memories, bending time to include the other in their past and articulate the present connection.

Glass Cube: “Aurora,” an installation by multimedia artist Zane Cochran featuring changing light and geometric lanterns based on occurrences of the Northern Lights. Open 24/7.

The Classic Center

The Classic Center galleries will be closed this Third Thursday due to an event in the space.

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Third Thursday was established in 2012 to encourage attendance at Athens’ established art venues through coordination and co-promotion by the organizing entities. This schedule and venue locations and regular hours can be found at 3thurs.org.

Contact: Michael Lachowski, Georgia Museum of Art, mlachow@uga.edu.

[firehawkyoga]

I am grateful to be returning today to the Spelman Museum ONLINE to share a healing practice inspired by Hale Woodruff’s “Landscape Black and White (1967). Find what unites for you as we experience the fusion of art with our yoga together. This FREE class is every Monday at noon, hope to see you there! Please register, link is in my bio or at @spelmanmuseum https://spelman.zoom.us/j/99691314520?pwd=Kzdpbi9VRW94WThOZ1RXQ05HbFhsdz09 (at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/COsio4xj5V5/?igshid=77x2g2l26rpo

[olgagarmash]

It’s not just exercise. Black fitness stars use their platforms to celebrate and educate. – NBC News

A recent cycling class that was part of a Black History Month Celebration Bootcamp was filled with a variety of music by Black artists. At the end, Peloton instructor Tunde Oyeneyin looked directly into the camera and said: “Black is salsa, Black is reggae, Black is hip-hop, Black is house, Black is Afrobeats, Black is country, Black is pop, Black is excellence.”

The 30-minute class was taken by tens of thousands of Peloton members on a platform that reaches more than 4.4 million people around the world.

The music Oyeneyin chose for her classes was intentional. She said she likes to bring the sounds she grew up with to the bike. “I think it widens our aperture and our ability to speak to different communities,” she said.

During a quick stretch that precedes her sweaty, challenging class, Oyeneyin tells riders, “We talk about, often, the struggle of Black people, but it is important that we celebrate, honor, we recognize our resilience as well.”

Oyeneyin shares her personal experience as a Black woman with members, and that experience has shown her how much representation matters in every facet of life. “To be able to wear my hair in a natural state on this platform — that means something to so many people,” Oyeneyin said.

She said she often receives messages from Black users expressing gratitude for her prominence on the platform.

Feb. 25, 202104:15

As the Covid-19 pandemic has restricted or shuttered gyms and group fitness classes, people looking for ways to stay fit have created home gyms, turned to streaming classes and have sought the wisdom of fitness influencers. But the most visible leaders in the fitness world don’t always reflect everyone on bikes and yoga mats, and that can include a lack of racial diversity when it comes to instructors, some in the industry say. Just like in other industries and institutions, Oyeneyin and her fitness instructor peers know systemic racism persists within their world.

Ashley Mitchell, a wellness professional and the co-founder of the Courage Campaign, said addressing racism within fitness spaces is “not as simple as making fitness free, it’s not as simple as hiring more Black instructors.” Mitchell said there is a lot more work that needs to be done in order to see real change.

The fitness world is “just another manifestation of systemic racism,” Mitchell said. “It’s about what’s in your neighborhood, what’s around you. It’s about health and wellness marketing. It’s about free time.”

Mitchell’s mission through the Courage Campaign is to teach students at under-resourced public schools about courage, resilience and agency through movements, discussion and journaling. She stresses the connection between fitness and activism. “When you feel strong and when you feel powerful, I think that that permeates through other areas of your life,” she said.

While there is hope that the racial reckoning many had throughout 2020 will make a difference, Mitchell says that “we’ve seen a lot of performative actions from fitness instructors and from fitness studios.” Her message to studios and CEOs: step up to the plate. “I would really love to see more. I would love to see better.”

With more people exercising at home because of the pandemic, Mitchell says she is seeing “a lot of Black and brown people becoming entrepreneurs instead of being attached to a studio.” She explains that “people are tired of waiting for someone to give them a chance. We see the gap and so we’re rising up, and we’re just taking that chance for ourselves.”

Destiny N. Monroe, founder of Raw Fitness and an Army veteran, started her own digital personal training company last July.

“I create my own lane for myself and attract those who want me on their brand.” Her tactics for dealing with discrimination and unrealistic standards within the fitness industry include “having a resilient attitude and just keep pushing forward.”

While some may be realizing the persistence of racism more recently, Monroe reminds them that “Black people did not appear in 2020, we’ve been here.” Monroe said fitness companies should “include us in, and if not, then we’re just going to keep making our own path and making our own way, but the difference is, we’re going to include everyone, because that is how you do it and that is the way to go.”

Monroe has nearly half a million followers on her Instagram @dnicolemonroe where she posts daily workout challenges, but she also uses her platform to fight for justice and equality. “Why wouldn’t I put my voice out there? Because at the end of the day, my voice, my people, is bigger than this fitness. So I make sure to use my platform in such a way that people notice that we matter.”

Chelsea Jackson Roberts, the first Black instructor for Peloton Yoga, had a full circle moment when the company announced its collaboration with Beyoncé to give students at 10 historically Black colleges and universities a free two-year digital membership. Jackson Roberts, who has a Ph.D. in educational studies from Emory University, founded the Yoga, Literature, and Art Camp at the Museum of Fine Art at Spelman College, an HBCU in Atlanta.

Jackson Roberts, who also celebrated the sounds of the African diaspora in a recent yoga class, said her prominence on the platform allows her to orchestrate classes that “create an experience that allows people to feel the fullness of their body in that moment, as well as using the breath as an instrument.” She believes the music in her classes is like “a symphony carrying us.”

The music Jackson Roberts uses in many of her yoga classes gives users the chance to celebrate Black culture as she encourages yogis to enjoy an Afrobeats or funk soundtrack while in a downward-facing dog.

Jackson Roberts recognizes the power her presence has on the app as she may be the only Black yoga instructor some users associate with. She takes this as “an opportunity to shift the narrative and a perspective for who qualifies as a knowledgeable teacher.”

Simultaneously, Jackson Roberts understands what her position means to young Black girls who are watching. “How dare I not use this as an opportunity to acknowledge my past in order to get rooted in this moment right now, to make sure that the people who come here after know that there’s something here for them.”

Jackson Roberts said yoga is “a way for us to connect our heart, right, to how we show up in the world. It’s a great way for us to get anchored in the breath before we speak out to whatever it is that we see.”

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source https://wealthch.com/its-not-just-exercise-black-fitness-stars-use-their-platforms-to-celebrate-and-educate-nbc-news/

[lecho]

CHARLES WILBERT WHITE – African American Artist (1918 –  1979)

Charles White was born in Chicago in 1918. The son of an African-American domestic worker and a railroad dining car waiter of Native American ancestry, White grew up in extreme poverty. He showed an early interest in art, using found materials and an oil paint set that his mother bought him for his seventh birthday. Art became a refuge from the poverty and violence in his neighborhood and from the unhappiness in his home after his father died and then when his mother married a belligerent and often drunk steel mill worker. White would often spend hours alone at the public library or the Art Institute of Chicago, while his mother was working, fueling his imagination and expanding his public school education.

When he was in the seventh grade, White won a scholarship to attend Saturday classes at the Art Institute, providing his first formal lessons in art. At age fourteen, he worked as a sign painter, creating signs for theaters and local shops. He also joined the Arts and Crafts Guild of black artists, receiving further instruction in art and providing an opportunity for him to exhibit his work. Through the Guild, he began to meet other black artists and intellectuals, including Katherine Dunham, Richard Wright, and Gwendolyn Brooks. These meetings, his frequent trips to see family in Mississippi, and his continued visits to the public library, where he discovered the works of black writers, laid a foundation for his commitment to African-American social causes.

In 1936, while in high school, White won a scholarship to attend the Art Institute of Chicago. He began to address themes of the social injustices facing blacks and, in 1938, he began working on projects through the Works Progress Administration, including murals for auditoriums and exhibition halls. This led to the commission of his first mural: Five Great American Negroes.

White moved to New York in 1942, studying for a short period of time at the Art Students League, and forging numerous relationships with social activists, writers, musicians, and intellectuals. He continued to execute murals, studying and working for a time with David Alfaro Siqueiros and other Mexican muralists in Mexico City. He also continued his immersion in social causes, providing illustrations for several leftist publications. His travels through the south, where he personally experienced violence and racism, strengthened his resolve to battle social injustice through his art.

White contracted tuberculosis while serving in the Army in 1944, requiring extensive recuperation. Forced to limit his exposure to oil paints, he began to focus more on drawing, continuing to address universal subjects of social injustice, as well as depictions of specific incidents of African American history, such as The Trenton Six, a drawing based on the false arrest and imprisonment of six African American men. By the late 1940s, White had his first solo exhibition in New York, and soon was receiving substantial critical attention. In 1950, he married Frances Barrett, a social worker, and, to aid in his continued battle with tuberculosis, they moved to Los Angeles in 1956.

During the 1960s, White executed a series of massive drawings and continued to receive numerous solo exhibitions and honors, including an honorary doctor of arts degree from Columbia College in Chicago. From the late 1960s through the early 1970s, he created a series of "wanted" posters based on Civil War posters advertising runaway slaves and slave auctions. In the 1970s, he resumed painting, and continued to receive numerous honors, including his inclusion in the first all-black exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, solo exhibitions at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and his appointment as Chair of the Drawing Department at Otis College of Art and Design. Continuing to suffer from the illness that he contracted while in the military, White died of congestive heart failure on October 3, 1979. His wife, Frances, died in 2000.

Besides being an artist of extraordinary ability, White was also a man of great integrity, honesty, and compassion. White's work and life were recently celebrated in a monograph written by Andrea Barnwell, Director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Writes Barnwell, "Charles White's art, easily identifiable by its bold figures, left an indelible imprint. This romantic revolutionary believed wholeheartedly in the art, mission, compassion, and dreams of all black people. Encapsulating the hopes and joys of humanity, his life and work encircle the globe."

http://www.cejjesinstitute.org/cwpp/biography.php

[7lettersormore]

Get your last Bloom on!!! Repost from @phyllis.iller - | 🤸🏿‍♀️ Community Day 🤸🏿‍♀️ Spelman College Museum of Fine Art 🤸🏿‍♀️ Saturday, April 21st | 12pm-4pm Bring your friends, families, and loved ones to the Museum to look, move, and create together - there will be guided tours, a scavenger hunt, and more flyness. INCLUDING the last installment of BLOOM! Fall through for some good times and free portraits! . . . #PhyllisIllerPhotography #SpelmanMuseum #Spelman #SpelMuse #BeYourOwnMuse #Musing #BLOOM #Portrait #Portraiture #Portraits #PortraitsofIG #PortraitPhotography (at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art)

[cfluxsingwondafully]

Yeah... we still "Blooming on your noon day news until you're shellshocked or suffering from retina abuse... opps" - FluxWondaBat Flyness by @phyllis.iller featuring yours truly. #BLOOM #Photography #art #FlowersWhileYouCanSmellThem #spelmanmuseum #NextMonthLastMonth #PhyllisIller (at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art)

[lboogie1906]

Lev T. Mills (b. December 11, 1940) is a native of Tallahassee, FL. He received his BA from FAMU; MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Post Graduate certificate from the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College-University of London. He is currently a professor at Spelman College. The dichotomy of Lev Mills’ career in the visual arts has been a synthesis of teaching art and the compelling urgency to continue as a practicing artist. Mills classifies himself as a “constructionist,” and his work has appeared in more than 100 group and solo exhibitions in the US, Europe, East, West, and North Africa. His work can also be found in major private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the British Museum, London; the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Library of Congress, DC; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Museum of Modern Art, NY. Mills has published an artistic book of etchings and poems entitled, I Do and many of his works are featured in the following books: Art African-American; Black Artists on Art and Afro-American Printmakers: American Artist Today, Vol. 1. Some of his local commissions include a glass mosaic mural for a MARTA train station; the Atrium floor design for Atlanta’s City Hall Annex; a collaborative mixed-media construction at Hartsfield International Airport, Atlanta and a courtyard glass mosaic mural for the Atlanta Board of Education Building. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/B572cotHzX5lk1dqi-Vxyeo66QDfyf9pByFA9M0/?igshid=1i6f8h35a9359

[kellykilmer]

#Repost @blackcollagists • • • • • • Yakima, Washington Hello Teri here. I am one of three Curators of Selection for the Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection. The Kanyers are holding a GIVE AWAY as they are nearing 6000 followers. The Give Away consists of two (2) copies of Lorna Simpson: Collages (paperback, $21.00 value) and one (1) copies of Deborah Roberts: The Evolution of Mimi (hardcover, $40.00 value). PLUS THERE IS MORE… In the near future they will be able to send a newsletter about the Collection directly to your email box too! See Qualifying Instructions Below: From Amazon about Lorna’s book: Using advertising photographs of black women and men drawn from vintage issues of Ebony and Jet magazines, the exquisite and thought-provoking collages of world-renowned artist Lorna Simpson explore the richly nuanced language of hair. Surreal coiffures made from colorful ink washes, striking geological formations from old textbooks, and other unexpected forms and objects adorn the models to mesmerizingly beautiful effect. Featuring 160 artworks, an artist's statement, and an introduction by poet Elizabeth Alexander, this volume celebrates the irresistible power of Simpson's visual vernacular. From Amazon about Deborah’s book: This catalogue was published with Spelman College Museum of Fine Art with generous support from the Wish Foundation, Inc., it accompanied the exhibition of the same name, that was on view at Spelman from January to May 2018. It includes full-color illustrations of the 80-plus works that were on view in the exhibition as well as installation photographs. The foreword by Mary Schmidt Campbell, PhD, is an interview between Deborah Roberts and Valerie Cassel Oliver. It is the first major publication on Roberts' work and includes some of her early work as well as her more recent collages and text-based images. To Qualify for the GIVEAWAY: GO: to @kanyerartcollection and LIKE the GIVE AWAY post FOLLOW: (@blackcollagists), (@ojo_de_collage), (@Kanyerartcollection). DM: Your EMAIL address @kanyerartcollection to subscribe to the newsletter. TAG: your @kanyerart collection 2 people you know love collage. - DEADLINE: Enter by SUNDAY, https://www.instagram.com/p/CESjsaegHVh/?igshid=h1aqaooyq0r6

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This is the first of three editions of the Virtual Arts Series by Williams Downs, curated by Floyd Hall. ARTIST STATEMENT The figures in this new work, short animation defy straightforward interpretation. They are in motion, yet suspended in precise compositions. Androgynous, sensual, and elusive, with the characters that populate my work…the goal is to find balance on a fine line that intersects figure study and psychological allegory. CURATOR STATEMENT There’s a depth and openness to William Downs’ work that challenges the viewer’s notions of reality and personal assumptions. You bring your own ideas to the work, and then experience the space to question those ideas. I’m excited to connect with William as he further incorporates video into his practice. ARTIST BIO Born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, William Downs works in a range of mediums, but focuses primarily on drawing. He received a Multidisciplinary M.F.A .from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore and a B.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from the Atlanta College of Art and Design. Downs taught Foundation Drawing at the Maryland Institute College of Art from 2002 through 2010. He taught Advanced Drawing at Parsons The New School for Design, Foundation Drawing at The Cooper Union and Tulane University. His work has been presented at numerous venues in the United States and abroad. Downs was represented by Moti Haasn Gallery 2007—2009, Slag Gallery 2009—2010, both New York Galleries and Parker Jones Gallery in LA 2009—2010. His work was part of “Monster Drawing” at the High Museum of Art, and “On Paper” at Field Work Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. He was recently included in a group exhibition “Art AIDS America” at The Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw. Downs is currently a Drawing and Painting Lecturer at Georgia State University. "I want my work to speak the truth. With this, I find pleasure in admiring and studying human behavior. Drawing while traveling, from everyday life, and from dreams, keeping a visual record of the interactions I observe between others and within my own psychology. By using the figure as a foundation I build bodies and landscapes with lines and layering of lines. The line is one of the most elemental forms of mark making: it is singular, yet serves to be manipulated and layered to create something more infinite than itself. This gives me the ability to mix formal and surreal elements, which are united on the surface of my drawings." https://ift.tt/2ZtRxLC https://ift.tt/2ZsVaRX CURATOR FLOYD HALL BIO Floyd Hall is a media strategist, cultural producer, writer and documentarian from Atlanta, Georgia. His professional work often relates to the intersection of art, media and technology as platforms. As an artist he is interested in the process of how we come to define and design ourselves, and is passionate about how history, culture and art blend together to construct narratives of place. Floyd counts the experiences of his Atlanta upbringing, childhood summers spent in Augusta, Georgia and living in New York City as an adult as the primary influences on his life. Time spent in these locations gave him moments of clarity and insight about regional perspectives, the immigrant experience, how spaces influence patterns of life, and the imagination and ingenuity of different cultures. He has also produced over 800 podcast episodes covering Art, Pop Culture, Fashion, Sports, Music, and Technology, including projects for National Public Radio (NPR) Station WABE 90.1 FM, Flux Projects, Woodruff Arts Center/High Museum, City of Atlanta and Central Atlanta Progress, the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, and The Creatives Project. Floyd is a 2020 Idea Capital artist grant recipient, a Hambidge Creative Residency Fellow and has presented as a guest lecturer at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Spelman College, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, and the Hudgens Center for Art and Learning; he is a past media contributor to ArtsATL, Number, Inc, ART PAPERS, and Americans for the Arts. https://ift.tt/3fv3FBp

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Third Thursday events and exhibitions for October 20

The next Third Thursday — the monthly evening of art in Athens, Georgia — is scheduled for Thursday, October 20, from 6 to 9 p.m. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. This schedule and location and hours of operation for each venue are available at 3thurs.org.

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia

Yoga in the Galleries, 6 p.m. — Join us for a free yoga class surrounded by works of art in the galleries. Led by instructors from Five Points Yoga, this program is free and open to both beginner and experienced yogis. Sanitized mats are provided. This program is available both in-person (spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis; tickets are available at the front desk starting at 5:15 p.m.) and via Zoom (register at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkfuyoqTgqHNOxQMTrJeVRUJQ3Xi_u3psx).

On view:

“Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund” — 

This exhibition is the first large-scale survey of the Do Good Fund’s remarkable and sweeping collection of photography made in the South from the 1950s to the present.

“Infinity on the Horizon” — This exhibition highlights modern and contemporary objects in the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection by prominent and lesser-known artists that can be characterized as abstract landscapes. 

“Allison Janae Hamilton: Between Life and Landscape” — Allison Janae Hamilton’s works often include spectral figures to convey the role of nature in Black experience as beautiful and fragile, hopeful and haunted.

“In Dialogue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mentor and Muse” — This focused exhibition highlights Black artist Henry Ossawa Tanner’s impact on several younger artists: Palmer C. Hayden, William H. Johnson, William Edouard Scott and Hale Woodruff.

“Jane Manus, Undaunted” — Five large-scale sculptures by the Florida-based geometric sculptor.

“Kristin Leachman: Longleaf Lines” — Paintings by artist Kristin Leachman of an old-growth longleaf pine forest in southwest Georgia as part of her “Fifty Forests” project.

“Decade of Tradition: Highlights from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection” — Selections from Larry and Brenda Thompson’s gift of works by African American artists.

“Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art” — Works by premiere Spanish baroque painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Murillo, Pedro Orrente and others, on loan from Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery.

The museum’s days of operation are Tuesday – Sunday. Reserve a free ticket and see our policies at https://georgiamuseum.org/visit/.

ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art

ATHICA@675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200 

“MOOD: 2022 Juried Exhibition” — Features the work of 37 contemporary artists from across the United States and Canada. Their work in all media explores or references MOOD, a term that has taken on a unique connotation on social media through its use thousands of times a day by individuals to express their temporal emotions with imagery, memes and an ever-changing collage of the media culture that surrounds us. #Mood is happy, sad, reflective, angstful, urgent, chill, colorful, somber, hungry, sleepy, angry, hopeful and more. The work on display was juried by Liz Andrews, executive director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.

ATHICA@CINÉ Gallery

“In Search of Mutisia” — Works by Nancy Barbosa.

Lyndon House Arts Center

“RE-, the Clarke County School District Student Art Exhibition” — Includes works by students from Kindergarten to 12th grade and media such as weaving, sculpture, photography, painting, drawing and collage. Also included are large collaborative works of art by classrooms and grades.

The Athenaeum

“Smooooooooooooooth Operator” — Brooklyn-based artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed presents a new exhibition that examines the poetics and power of machine learning. She questions computation, the role of the reader and ritual in “Smooooooooooooooth Operator,” which considers the menace of smoothness. We know what a smooth thing is; we’ve run our hand over a surface without noticeable projections or interruptions. Smoothing as a practice shows up in music via quantization and again in image processing via filters. Both are procedures of standardization and forced patterning by disregarding dirty data (or noise) in the service of fulfilling the audience’s expectations. Smooth viewing is easy viewing because the brain doesn’t have to second guess what it is looking at. Smooth images, smooth text make smooth, speed readers.

tiny ATH gallery

Pen and ink exhibition by Valley StipeMaas. John Kiran Fernandes performing experimental clarinet.

Safety precautions in place for tiny ATH gallery:

Face masks are optional in the gallery if fully vaccinated

Please consider parking up Pulaski/Cleveland to alleviate parking issues if lot is full

If you feel unwell, or have been in touch with anyone who has been sick, please stay home

Hotel Indigo, Athens

ArtWall@Hotel Indigo: Photography by Lucy Reback and Megan Reilly — These New York-based photographers have been living and working in Athens for the past two years. The artists, who are also a couple, have never exhibited collaboratively. These works span five years; some were taken before the couple met, and others are intimate vignettes of their relationship. The fragmented assemblage of their combined work reinterprets these memories, bending time to include the other in their past and articulate the present connection.

Glass Cube: “Aurora,” an installation by multimedia artist Zane Cochran featuring changing light and geometric lanterns based on occurrences of the Northern Lights. Open 24/7.

The Classic Center

Classic Gallery I: “Spotlight: Paintings by Amy Watts” — Cowgirls, farmers, miners, Indigenous peoples and angels comingle on big, bold, colorful canvases that bring to mind stained-glass windows and WPA murals.

Classic Gallery II: “Light Bright” — This exhibition is inspired by the childhood toy. Remember piercing through with little, colorful, plastic pegs to create glowing compositions. Artists Caitlin Gal, Allison McPheeters and Alivia Patton all utilize the simple circle to create inspiring works. Gal’s paintings joyfully point to plant life and biology using a bright color palette and Matisse-inspired shapes. McPheeters uses drawing as a means to relax, and her intricate repeated mark reads as a sort of meditation. Patton shows the transformation of form in her works that resemble a target or a planet or an eyeball.

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Third Thursday was established in 2012 to encourage attendance at Athens’ established art venues through coordination and co-promotion by the organizing entities. This schedule and venue locations and regular hours can be found at 3thurs.org.

Contact: Michael Lachowski, Georgia Museum of Art, mlachow@uga.edu.

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Check out the lineup of awesome teachers I am grateful to be a part who are offering their passion for healing in the 2020 yoga series at @spelmanmuseum! If you haven’t experienced your practice in this fantastic space with this lovely community yet, this is your chance to. Meet the diversity of teachers and styles that enrich our journeys to wellness. Catch my next class this Monday Feb 10 where I’ll be sharing the roots of yoga from Africa for all levels among the breath-giving works of @theastergates. (at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8W3i3mnIb_/?igshid=bqx3uuxynbdz