Current Exhibit Information: An American Consciousness:
Robin Holder’s
Mid-Career Retrospective
The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art presents “An American Consciousness: Robin Holder’s Mid-Career Retrospective,” an in-depth examination of Robin Holder’s three decades as a printmaker. Holder, a New York-based artist and educator, is a storyteller whose work fuses autobiographical, historic, and global issues. Working in series, she addresses diverse themes that include immigration, racism, jazz, the Holocaust, and child labor.
Through her work, Holder unites aesthetics with sociopolitical ideas, connects personal and universal experiences, and reflects on nature and spirituality. Her self-reflective images are meditations on identity, women’s empowerment, and social realities. Featuring 65 works, “An American Consciousness” will be on view from January 21 through May 15, 2010.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Preview Reception
Meet artist and art educator Robin Holder and exhibition curator Dorit Yaron, Deputy Director of the David C. Driskell Center, and be among the first to view "An American Consciousness"
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 6:30 p.m.
Autobiography, Narrative, and an “African American Russian Jewish
Red Diaper Baby”
Participate in an interactive gallery walk led by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., Director of the Museum, that explores the relationship between play and autobiography in Robin Holder’s extensive series What’s Black and White and Red All Over?
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 1:00pm – 4:00 p.m.
Beyond the Blackboard: Community Day
Children of all ages are invited to the Museum’s Community Day that will include interactive gallery walks of the exhibition, a make-and-take workshop on stencil and printmaking techniques based on the work featured in An American Consciousness, and more! Admission is free but registration is required. To register, call 404.270.5607 or send an e-mail to museum@spelman.edu.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Warrior Women: The Art of Robin Holder
Anne Collins Smith, Curator of Collections, will lead a gallery walk of Robin Holder’s Warrior Women Wizards: Mystical Magical Mysteries series. This body of work, which Holder began in 1985, depicts women in various states of empowerment. This gallery walk is organized in partnership with the Women’s Resource and Research Center and the 10th Annual Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 6:30 p.m.
The Power of the Between and the Art of Robin Holder
Maurita N. Poole, Graduate Assistant, will lead a gallery walk of the exhibition highlighting the intersection of anthropology and Holder’s work. This gallery walk is organized in partnership with the African Diaspora and the World Program and the Department of Anthropology and
ABOUT THE MUSEUM
The unique mission of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art is to emphasize works by and about women of the African Diaspora in its exhibitions and programs. It is regularly named as one of Atlanta’s most important arts institutions and has garnered significant attention for its innovative original group exhibitions. In December 2008 Cathy Fox, Art Critic for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, identified the Museum’s exhibition Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970 as one of the most important group exhibitions of the year.
In the last several years the Museum has organized other exhibitions that have attracted popular and critical support. Projects such as iona rozeal brown: a3 . . . black on both sides (2004), Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Parts I and II (2007 and 2008), and María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Dreaming of an Island (2008) consistently expand Atlanta’s contemporary art offerings. Undercover promises to honor the Museum’s unique mission and build upon the institution’s commitment to presenting first-rate, engaging exhibitions which appeal to residents of Atlanta, the region, and beyond.
ADDRESS
The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art is located in the Atlanta University Center on the Spelman College campus in the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby Academic Center at 350 Spelman Lane.
ADMISSION
Suggested donation $3/parking $3
HOURS
The Museum is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. The Museum is closed Sundays, Mondays, major holidays and official College breaks. For more information on the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, visit www.spelman.edu/museum.
