spelman college Archives

Playwright, professor Will Power trains a new generation of artists at Spelman

Spelman undergraduate Kéla Jackson tells a story of the African diaspora at the High

News: Spelman gets $5.4 million from Walton family to help create diversity in museum field

Spelman president Mary Schmidt Campbell sheds new light on Romare Bearden

In the studio with artist and Spelman College professor Myra Greene

Legacy Series: Spelman’s Andrea Barnwell Brownlee welcomes conversation and debate over art

“Meet Me on the Porch” shows off Spelman’s new dance department and West End studio

News: Obama portraitist, Georgia native Amy Sherald wins High’s $25,000 Driskell Prize

Obituary: Tamara Natalie Madden, Atlanta artist and Spelman professor

News: Spelman College receives $1 Million Gift for New Riggio Scholars Program and Planned Arts and Innovation Center

Kelundra SmithFebruary 8, 2019

For playwright and performer Will Power, a life of art is as much about creation as it is about entrepreneurship. He is an innovator of hip-hop theater, a form ...

In ConversationTheaterTheater - FeaturedTheater - In Conversation

Gail O'NeillDecember 20, 2018

Despite the relatively small footprint of Diasporic Connections, currently on view at the High Museum, the exhibition tells a big story about the transatlantic ...

Art+DesignArt+Design - FeaturedArt+Design - In ConversationLatest News

ARTS ATL StaffSeptember 26, 2018

Spelman College has received a $5.4 million grant from the Walton Family Foundation to establish the Atlanta University Center Collective for the Study of Art H...

Art+Design

Laura RelyeaAugust 30, 2018

Romare Bearden once stated, “You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from....

Books

Andrew Alexander and Karley SullivanMay 29, 2018

It’s surprising to arrive in a photographer’s studio to find the artist seated at a sewing machine making a quilt, with no camera, photo equipment or darkroom i...

Art+Design

Gail O'NeillApril 18, 2018

Andrea Barnwell Brownlee has a calm, measured way of outlining her mission as an art historian, writer, curator and director of the Spelman College Museum of Fi...

Art+Design

Candice ThompsonMarch 20, 2018

In the fall of 2017, Spelman College unveiled a new department of dance performance and choreography. Led by department chair T. Lang, the department also has a...

DanceDance - FeaturedDance - PreviewsStay Up To Date

ARTS ATL StaffFebruary 8, 2018

The High Museum of Art announced today that artist Amy Sherald is the 2018 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of her contributions to the f...

Art+Design

Andrew AlexanderNovember 16, 2017

Tamara Natalie Madden, an Atlanta-based, Jamaican-born artist and professor at Spelman College, died at her home in Snellville, Georgia, on Saturday, November 4...

Art+Design

« March 2019 »

Laura RelyeaJanuary 11, 2017

Spelman College has received a $1 million gift from Leonard and Louise Riggio to establish the Riggio Scholars Program in addition to supporting their planned arts and innovation center....

Art+Design