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Today is 03/15/2010

01/15/2007 - 05/13/2007 www.atlhist.org/template.cfm?cid=779
I Have A Dream:The Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection
I Have A Dream: The Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection displays King's personal papers in his handwriting, documenting the progress of his campaign for human justice. This exhibition includes more than 600 pieces from the 10,000 piece collection. Highlights of the exhibition include drafts of King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech, his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, sermons from his ministry, personal notes he maintained in hundreds of his books, and his celebrated "Letter from Birmingham Jail." This premier exhibition uses audio and visual components.
Atlanta History Center
Atlanta Georgia

02/01/2007 - 05/05/2007 www.cau.edu/
John Wilson in Conversation: The Atlanta University Art Annuals
Works by internationally celebrated painter, printmaker, sculptor, illustrator, and educator John Woodrow Wilson (b. 1922). Wilson garnered the most purchase awards of the 29 national juried exhibitions held at Atlanta University between 1942 and 1970. Fifteen paintings and prints from CAUs permanent collection and a maquette of a mural painted in Mexico, on loan from Yale University Art Gallery, will be displayed in association with the event. Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to immigrant parents from British Guiana (now Guyana), Wilson began his formal training at age 17 when he received a full scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and graduated with highest honors in 1945. From 1947 to 1949 he traveled to Europe on the prestigious James William Page fellowship and studied with Fernand Lger in Paris. A John Hay Whitney fellowship enabled Wilson to live and study in Mexico (1950-1956), which engaged his socialist orientation that is prevalent in his choice of subjects. It was in Mexico that he painted a mural of a lynching scene titled The Incident. Wilsons work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York; the museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many others.
Clark Atlanta Gallery
Atlanta Georgia

02/11/2007 - 03/31/2007 www.afplweb.com/aarl/Calendar.htm
Lois Mailou Jones: The Early Works - Paintings and Patterns 1927 - 1937
Lois Mailou Jones is a native of New England, Jones began her artistic career as an apprentice to a costume designer, and later as a commercially successful designer of wallpaper and fabrics. Many of her textile designs are included in the exhibit. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among other major collections. Saturday, March 17, 2007, 4:00 p.m --.Book Discussion and Signing Featuring Dr. Chris Chapman, author of Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Color (2007). Closing Reception: On Friday, March 30, 2007, 6:30 p.m. -- A screening of the 55-minute video Lois Mailou Jones: Fifty Years of Painting, directed by Mr. Abiyi R. Ford . . . followed a discussion, led by Mr. Edmond Barry Gaither, curator, scholar and friend of Lois Mailou Jones, will follow the screening.
Auburn Avenue Research Library - Gallery
Atlanta Georgia .

01/18/2007 - 05/12/2007 www.spelman.edu/_ezpost/data/22447.shtml
Hale Woodruff and Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: A 75th Anniversary Celebration at Spelman College
Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and the Academy commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Spelman College Department of Art, which Woodruff and Prophet founded. While Woodruff is widely recognized for originating the Atlanta University Annual Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Prints by Negro Artists an art competition that lasted from 1942 to 1970 his own artistic accomplishments have not been adequately examined. Born on August 26, 1900, Hale Woodruff contributed to the development of African American art. Woodruff is heralded for establishing the Atlanta Annuals, an important competition, which was featured in TIME magazine in 1947 and continued until 1970. In 1946 while in New York, he made a significant impact on the New York School of Abstraction. The Amistad murals at Talladega College, the Art of the Negro mural at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University) and his extensive Celestial Gate series are among his most well known works. Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, on March 9, 1890 in Warwick Rhode Island, was the first African American woman to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design. By the late 1920s and early 1930s she emerged as one of the most talented American sculptors by American and European critics alike. The limited edition catalogue includes contributions by Amalia Amaki, Ph.D., Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., Richard Long, Ph.D., M. Akua McDaniel, Ph.D., Anne Collins Smith and Mary Parks Washington.
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Atlanta Georgia .

03/01/06 - 08/31/06 www.cau.edu/art_gallery/FreddieStyles.pdf
Freddie Styles: Old, New, Borrowed, Blue
Old, New, Borrowed, Blue evokes the union of Freddie Styles with his native Georgia. Wide range of visually encodes visions of earthscapes and his encounters with nature and people he knew.
Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries
Atlanta Georgia United States

03/10/2006 - 05/28/2006 www.icp.org/
Snap Judgments: New Positions In African Contemporary Photography
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography forces a recognition of the contradictory and varied forms of photographic practice that are now arising acrossSnap Judgments highlights a shift away from the commercial studio portraiture that predominated in Africa in previous decades, revealing a new and surprising emphasis on conceptual art, documentary, and fashion photography. Most of the works shown here were produced since 2000. Many were made within the past year, and several were commissioned specifically for the exhibition. Africa.
Internarional Center for Photography
New York New York

01/27/2006 - 07/29/2006 www.hamptonu.edu/museum
The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: Selections from the Hampton University Collection
"Pulled from the collection of the Hampton University Museum, this exhibition will feature works on paper and sculpture by world renowned artist Elizabeth Catlett. Artist, educator, social and political activist the works represented in this exhibition show the importance of Catlett as a major contemporary international artist."
Hampton University Museum
Hampton Virginia

03/10/2006 - 08/13/2006 brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/symphonic_poem/
Syphonic Poem: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
This extraordinary exhibition of more than 100 mixed media works by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson explores the artist's memory of her Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood, while celebrating her African American heritage and reconstructing the complex histories of vanished communities. Symphonic Poem is a project representing more than 50 years of research, travel, and artistic virtuosity and inventiveness in multiple media. The exhibition presents a diverse body of work that ranges from drawings and woodcuts to complex sculptures made from natural and synthetic materials, such as twigs, carved leather, music boxes, and "hogmawg," her own material composed of mud, grease, dyes, and glue.
Brooklyn Museum
New York New York