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01/15/2007 - 05/13/2007 www.atlhist.org/template.cfm?cid=779
I Have A Dream:The Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection
I Have A Dream: The Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection displays King's personal papers in his handwriting, documenting the progress of his campaign for human justice. This exhibition includes more than 600 pieces from the 10,000 piece collection. Highlights of the exhibition include drafts of King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech, his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, sermons from his ministry, personal notes he maintained in hundreds of his books, and his celebrated "Letter from Birmingham Jail." This premier exhibition uses audio and visual components.
Atlanta History Center
Atlanta Georgia

02/01/2007 - 05/05/2007 www.cau.edu/
John Wilson in Conversation: The Atlanta University Art Annuals
Works by internationally celebrated painter, printmaker, sculptor, illustrator, and educator John Woodrow Wilson (b. 1922). Wilson garnered the most purchase awards of the 29 national juried exhibitions held at Atlanta University between 1942 and 1970. Fifteen paintings and prints from CAUs permanent collection and a maquette of a mural painted in Mexico, on loan from Yale University Art Gallery, will be displayed in association with the event. Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to immigrant parents from British Guiana (now Guyana), Wilson began his formal training at age 17 when he received a full scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and graduated with highest honors in 1945. From 1947 to 1949 he traveled to Europe on the prestigious James William Page fellowship and studied with Fernand Lger in Paris. A John Hay Whitney fellowship enabled Wilson to live and study in Mexico (1950-1956), which engaged his socialist orientation that is prevalent in his choice of subjects. It was in Mexico that he painted a mural of a lynching scene titled The Incident. Wilsons work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York; the museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many others.
Clark Atlanta Gallery
Atlanta Georgia

01/02/2007 - 02/18/2007 www.themorris.org
Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938- 40
The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman series of 1938-40 are among Jacob Lawrence's greatest achievements as a painter. Including thirty-two and thirty-one images, respectively, the narratives document the struggles and heroic achievements of these two nineteenth-century abolitionists. Executed in tempera, the images are remarkable in their simplicity, vivid color, boldly expressive style, and use of the series format to convey narrative content. The images include captions written by the artist, who thoroughly researched the two legendary figures before beginning work on the series. For more information, visit
The Morris Museum of Art
Augusta Georgia

02/08/2007 - 03/10/2007 www.visualarts.emory.edu/events/index.html
Collectage: Transcribing Oral Memory
A Retrospective of Paintings, Illuminated Photographs, and Sculpture by Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier. Collectage: Transcribing Oral Memory examines the visual career of African-American visual artist Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier with paintings and mixed media works dating back to 1972. Also included are images from Stereo Propaganda: Deconstructing Stereotypes, Reconstructing Identity, her recent solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Collectage follows Marshall-Linnemeiers streams, dreams, and imaginings with works that span her career and includes paintings completed by the artist when she was just seventeen years old.
Emory Visual Arts Gallery
Atlanta Georgia .

02/11/2007 - 03/31/2007 www.afplweb.com/aarl/Calendar.htm
Lois Mailou Jones: The Early Works - Paintings and Patterns 1927 - 1937
Lois Mailou Jones is a native of New England, Jones began her artistic career as an apprentice to a costume designer, and later as a commercially successful designer of wallpaper and fabrics. Many of her textile designs are included in the exhibit. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among other major collections. Saturday, March 17, 2007, 4:00 p.m --.Book Discussion and Signing Featuring Dr. Chris Chapman, author of Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Color (2007). Closing Reception: On Friday, March 30, 2007, 6:30 p.m. -- A screening of the 55-minute video Lois Mailou Jones: Fifty Years of Painting, directed by Mr. Abiyi R. Ford . . . followed a discussion, led by Mr. Edmond Barry Gaither, curator, scholar and friend of Lois Mailou Jones, will follow the screening.
Auburn Avenue Research Library - Gallery
Atlanta Georgia .

01/02/2007 - 03/11/2007 www.caamuseum.org/ce_2.htm
The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey
This exhibition offers a roadmap to the cultural journey and transformation faced by these collectors as they embrace and acquire art and artifacts. The collection has works ranging from slave documents to artwork by Robert Scott Duncanson, Palmer Hayden and more recent masters such as Romare Bearden, Richard Mayhew and Sam Gilliam. The collection uniquely weaves art with the artifacts and documents as early as the 18th century to tell African American story in a unique and compelling manner.
California African American Museum
Los Angeles California .

01/18/2007 - 05/12/2007 www.spelman.edu/_ezpost/data/22447.shtml
Hale Woodruff and Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: A 75th Anniversary Celebration at Spelman College
Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and the Academy commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Spelman College Department of Art, which Woodruff and Prophet founded. While Woodruff is widely recognized for originating the Atlanta University Annual Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Prints by Negro Artists an art competition that lasted from 1942 to 1970 his own artistic accomplishments have not been adequately examined. Born on August 26, 1900, Hale Woodruff contributed to the development of African American art. Woodruff is heralded for establishing the Atlanta Annuals, an important competition, which was featured in TIME magazine in 1947 and continued until 1970. In 1946 while in New York, he made a significant impact on the New York School of Abstraction. The Amistad murals at Talladega College, the Art of the Negro mural at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University) and his extensive Celestial Gate series are among his most well known works. Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, on March 9, 1890 in Warwick Rhode Island, was the first African American woman to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design. By the late 1920s and early 1930s she emerged as one of the most talented American sculptors by American and European critics alike. The limited edition catalogue includes contributions by Amalia Amaki, Ph.D., Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., Richard Long, Ph.D., M. Akua McDaniel, Ph.D., Anne Collins Smith and Mary Parks Washington.
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Atlanta Georgia .

01/27/2006 - 07/29/2006 www.hamptonu.edu/museum
The Art of Elizabeth Catlett: Selections from the Hampton University Collection
"Pulled from the collection of the Hampton University Museum, this exhibition will feature works on paper and sculpture by world renowned artist Elizabeth Catlett. Artist, educator, social and political activist the works represented in this exhibition show the importance of Catlett as a major contemporary international artist."
Hampton University Museum
Hampton Virginia