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#Repost @wishatl (with @report.for.insta) ... #wishtravels To see the Amy Sherald exhibit at the Spelman College Museum | Sherald was commissioned by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in 2018 to paint the official portrait of Former First Lady Michelle Obama #spelmuse #spelamysherald #wishfoundation (at Duluth, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw9IKFugg3T/?igshid=19orwt8rj88el

#Repost @wishatl (with @report.for.insta) ... #wishtravels To see the Amy Sherald exhibit at the Spelman College Museum | Sherald was commissioned by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in 2018 to paint the official portrait of Former First Lady Michelle Obama #spelmuse #spelamysherald #wishfoundation (at Duluth, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw9IFagg_pU/?igshid=1hbc4cc0uvnmj

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)

March 2018 Collection Spotlight . . . Marcia Kure (Nigerian, born 1970) "LDIMEDILLIGAF," 2011
"LBR and LGR," 2011
"The Conformist," 2011 
Watercolor, kolanut pigment, pencil, and egg tempera on paper 
11 X 17 ½ inches each 
15 X 15 Acquisitions Initiative Purchase, 2012.5, 2012.4, and 2011.5   Marcia Kure creates drawings, photomontages, and sculptures that explore alternative worlds as a response to colonialism. She has garnered significant attention for her paintings and drawings that are made of the brownish pigment of kola nuts and watercolor.  "LDIMEDILLIGAF," "LBR and LGR," and "The Conformist," are all from Kure’s series "Fashionable Hybrids." She explained: "The Fashionable Hybrids" series evolved from my "Dressed Up" series (2009 – 2010), which examined the different bodies and fashion associate with Hip Hop and Victorian/contemporary haute couture—the two modes of dress and the social worlds they invoke in order to dismantle the usual cultural and social boundaries cloth imposes on bodies, and to challenge the ways human beings are defined by what they where. The "Fashionable Hybrids" series goes even further. In the "Fashionable Hybrids" series uses visual elements from Disney cartoons, Japanese Anime and Manga, medieval fashion, militaries outfits, and contemporary couture fashion collide with pictorial forms inspired by the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, Roy Lichtenstein, Jan Vermeer, Gustav Klimt, Dominique Ingres, and Edouard Manet. The resulting figures, revel in their hybridity, as if they are proud avatars of extreme fashion.  Kure is a member of the Nsukka School of the University of Nigeria. Members of the school are influenced by ancient cave drawings in southern Africa and uli.  Uli is a painting and drawing tradition incorporating simple forms and minimal use of color, which was once solely practiced by the Igbo women of eastern Nigeria.  The solitary, amorphous, surreal yet commanding figures she creates—often adorned in highly inventive attire—explore a host of subjects including glamour, aggression, violence, female authority, identify, and beauty.   #SpelMuse #MarciaKure #BeYourOwnMuse #CollectionSpotlight #PermanentCollection

Please be advised that the Museum will be closed on Good Friday and Easter Saturday, March 30 and 31, 2018. We look forward to welcoming you for Yoga in the Museum on Monday, April 2 at noon with @VanyaFrancis. The Museum reopens on Tuesday, April 3 at 10:00pm. We look forward welcoming you to the Museum soon. #SpelMuse #DeborahRoberts #BeYourOwnMuse

Gallery Walk with Deborah Roberts on TODAY at 3pm. Join us!!! #DeborahRoberts #SpelMuse #BeYourOwnMuse (at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art)

*Monday, February 5th at 6pm* Curating "Soul of a Nation" Mark Godfrey, Ph.D. and Zoe Whitley, Ph.D. hosted by Spelman College President, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D. #BlackHistoryMonth #SpelMuse @spelman_college @markgodfrey1973 @zoe.whitley

Curating "Soul of a Nation" Mon, February 5, 2018 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST Join Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D., President, Spelman College for Curating "Soul of a Nation" Mark Godfrey, Ph.D. and Zoe Whitley, Ph.D. will present a lively lecture about organizing "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power," history now, and how American cultural identity was re-shaped during the Civil Rights Movement. A Q&A and a book signing follow. "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power," an exhibition featuring more than 150 artworks by more than 60 artists including Romare Bearden, Noah Purifoy, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Alma Thomas, Charles White, and William T. Williams, debuted at the Tate Modern in London in July 2017. This program is organized in partnership with the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and the Department of Art & Visual Culture, Spelman College. Image: Barkley L. Hendricks, "Icon for My Man Superman (Superman Never Saved any Black People - Bobby Seale), 1960, Detail, Oil paint, acrylic paint and aluminum leaf on canvas, 151.1 x 121cm @spelman_college #SoulofaNation #SpelMuse #BeYourOwnMuse