Past Exhibitions

Amanda Williams

We Say What Black This Is, an exhibition showcasing oil and watercolor paintings to interrogate systemic racism through the lens of spatial dynamics.

Ming Smith: Feeling the Future

The first solo exhibition of photographer Ming Smith.

Threaded

Threaded presents artworks created by Black women working with textiles.

Harmonia Rosales

Rosales rewrites the master narrative of art history from the perspective of an Afro-Cuban American woman.

Black American Portraits

The exhibition reframes portraiture to center Black American subjects, sitters, and spaces.

Lava Thomas

Drawing and installation works, addressing the relevance of African American history to our current moment.

Silver Linings

A celebration of collecting art at Spelman College.

Theaster Gates: Black Image Corporation

The legacy of the Johnson Publishing Company archive.

Mildred Thompson, the Atlanta Years

American abstract artist Mildred Thompson (1936 – 2003).

Amy Sherald

Amy Sherald created the portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama.

PRESENCE Meditations

Spelman's newest gifts and latest acquisitions.

Zanele Muholi

Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness.

Deborah Roberts

The Evolution of Mimi is a visually arresting collage encouraging important conversations about girlhood.

Beverly Buchanan — Ruins and Rituals

The artist explored themes of memory and historical injustice, monuments and ruin.

Mickalene Thomas

Best known for her large-scale, elaborate paintings.

AFRICA FORECAST

Art by black women artists and designers who shape, imagine, and redefine the impact of lifestyle in highly imaginative ways.

Black Chronicles II

It made available for the first time newly discovered photographs documenting Black subjects' presence in late nineteenth-century Britain.

Howardena Pindell

An outspoken artist, writer, curator, and professor whose career reflects the spirit of a creative risk taker, seasoned traveler, and advocate for equality.

Maren Hassinger

A pioneering artist who mindfully explores our relationship to nature, movement, and transformation.

Renée Stout

Tales of the Conjure Woman combines painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, glassblowing, installation, and compelling storytelling.

Posing Beauty in African American Culture

The exhibit featured more than seventy-five photographs by leading, emerging, and amateur photographers.

Multiple Choice

Perspectives on the Spelman College Collection

Material Girls

Contemporary Black Women Artists

American People

Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the 1960s

Brides of Anansi: Fiber and Contemporary Art

Explore how fiber has become a distinctive voice of women of the African Diaspora.

The 15th Anniversary Acquisitions Exhibition

15 x 15: The 15th Anniversary Acquisitions Exhibition included a selection of signature works and recent gifts.