Family Weekend

TRIVIA FOR US & Virtual Family Trivia Night

7:30 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.

TRIVIA FOR US will host a trivia game were families will answer questions about the college and black culture to include arts, music and entertainment. Winners will receive a swag bag.
Location: Spelman College YouTube Chanel.

Play the Game Here

Use Password: SPELMAN

 

Pivoting During the Pandemic: Taking Advantage of Career Opportunities in Times of Transition

12 p.m. - 1 p.m.

The resilience of the Spelman brand, and the reputation of our exceptional students has risen to the occasion to meet the unemployment challenges of the pandemic head-on. Employer and Graduate School engagement of our students has increased significantly, and despite the unemployment rate and the virtual work environment, college hiring (particularly at HBCUs) is on the rise.

This session will feature students who have successfully navigated the virtual recruiting landscape to obtain full-time jobs, internships, research opportunities, and graduate school acceptances. Actual strategies of success will be shared to help forge a path for other students to experience similar success.

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Virtual Caricature

1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Have your family turned into a caricature! A virtual caricature artist will be available via Zoom from 1:00-4:00 p.m. EST, for your family to sit for the artist or you can submit a family photo. During the event, you’ll digitally raise your hand when you’re ready to have your caricature drawn.

Spelman College Parents & Family Association General Body Meeting

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Join us to hear how you can be another voice for Spelman!

Dinner with the President

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Bring your favorite meal and drink for a virtual dinner with the President of Spelman College – Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell.  Families can connect with Dr. Campbell during the dinner hour to hear how the college is progressing after students returned to campus.  All attendees will be entered in a drawing to win a $50 UberEATS voucher.

 

Pre-Recorded Sessions

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art

For more than eighty years, Spelman College has championed the arts and shaped an impressive collection of artworks from the African Diaspora through the generosity of alumnae, artists, trustees, and Friends of the College. Our holdings include works by emerging, mid-career, and established artists. The Spelman College collection also reflects the institution’s sustained commitment to artists in the Atlanta University Center.

The Arc of the Spelman College Collection looks at four pivotal moments in the collecting history of the College: its early collecting efforts, the Atlanta University Center Coordinated Art Program, the impetus to acquire works by Black women artists, and its ascent as a world class institution. Artists featured in this exhibition include a combination of acquisitions and gifts of works by Emma Amos, Selma Burke, Jacob Lawrence, Lucille Malkia Roberts, Lina Iris Viktor, Barrington Watson, and many others. 

The Arc grew from this unprecedented time in our collective history where we are all being called upon to reflect on our legacies. This exhibition encourages and emboldens the Spelman Museum to think critically about the ways in which it has and can continue to serve its communities and make its holdings more accessible.

View a Video About the Collection

Spelman College Glee Club
Join the Spelman College Glee Club for an easy-listening virtual musical festival with our very own Spelchella featuring glee club students and their families. This event will be featured on the Spelman College YouTube channel.


Watch Spelchella



Counseling
Take advantage of a pre-recorded session from the Spelman College Counseling
Center about how families and students can get through the pandemic together when they are together by force not by choice.

Pre-Recorded Sessions

Rev. Dionne P. Boissière is the Chaplain of the Church Center for the United Nations.  Rev. Boissière is the first woman of African Descent to hold this position in the history of this New York ecumenical and inter-faith landmark.  CCUN, owned by the United Methodist Women, exists to expand the ecumenical community’s capacity and access to the United Nations, to bring greater voice to the broad moral and ethical concerns of the church in international affairs, peacemaking, and advocacy.  As the chief spiritual steward of the CCUN, Rev. Boissière, ensures that the Church Center provides sacred space, worship, hospitality, community advocacy and a forum for partners and civil society to engage in transformative education that seeks to empower and build the things that make for peace.

Rev. Boissière also serves as an Associate Minister on staff at the Mt. Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  She uses her gift of preaching, teaching and facilitation, conducting workshops for various churches, faith based and civil society institutions throughout the U.S. and abroad. 

Rev. Boissière continues to use her God-given gifts and talents in every area of life and is called and committed to the ministry of relevant, holistic, integrated teaching and preaching, global advocacy and activism. She is also a humble psalmist for God and uses the ministry of song as well as speech to proclaim of the life and liberty available to the world through the love of God in Christ Jesus.


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