Nearly 70 Works Trace the Evolution of the Museum’s Collection and the Black Feminist Imagination
Between Here & Infinity
Between Here & Infinity
ATLANTA, Sept. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art celebrates its 30th anniversary with the opening of Between Here & Infinity: Celebrating 30 Years of the Spelman College Art Collection, an expansive exhibition featuring nearly 70 works by Black women artists who shape our permanent collection and define our mission.
The exhibition, which opened on September 9, 2026, is the first to span both the museum’s galleries and will open in two waves: at the Bank of America Gallery at the Mary Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation & the Arts, on September 9, 2026, and in the gallery in the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center on October 1, 2026.
“Between Here & Infinity brings a fresh view to the evolving Spelman collection, staging conversations between works across media and across time,” said Spelman Museum Director Liz Andrews, Ph.D. “This vibrant presentation underscores the generations of curators and artists who have dreamed this museum into existence and made it a place where Black women’s artistic expression is at the center of art history and futures.”
Between Here & Infinity: Celebrating 30 Years of the Spelman College Art Collection is grounded in dreaming and the Black feminist imagination, exploring ways of knowing, seeing, and creating shaped by Black women’s lived experiences. Between Here & Infinity presents artworks drawn from the permanent collection, organized by areas inspired by the layers of Earth’s atmosphere to gesture toward the vast and diverse qualities of the Black feminist imagination which shapes it: the Root, works that ground the collection in origin and tradition; the Threshold, works that evoke crossings through transitional space; the Interior, works that turn inward toward intimacy and quietude; the Expanse, works that are conceptually daring and electric in color; and the Horizon, where the past meets the future and dissolves into limitless possibility. Visitors are invited to explore the exhibition in any order they choose, taking in the collection’s range and depth.
Developed in collaboration with the Spelman College Archives, the exhibition features archival materials that document the Museum’s first three decades and provide historical context for its role as a leading institution dedicated to art by and about women of the African Diaspora. The presentation illuminates the Museum’s enduring commitment to scholarship, collecting, and public engagement, while tracing the ways its collection and programming have expanded over time.
Artists in the exhibition include: Amalia Amaki, Emma Amos, Firelei Báez, Louisiana Bendolph, Camille Billops, Betty Blayton, Sheila Pree Bright, Iona Rozeal Brown, Sonia Boyce, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Elizabeth Catlett, Renée Cox, Tina Dunkley, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Myra Greene, Maren Hassinger, Charnelle D. Holloway, Jenelsie Walden Holloway, Varnette Honeywood, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Marcia Kure, Samella Lewis, Valerie Maynard, Nandipha Mntambo, Zanele Muholi, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Laurie Ourlicht, Howardena Pindell, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Rachelle Puryear, Helen McBride Richter, Faith Ringgold, Deborah Roberts, Lucille Malkia Roberts, Aminah Robinson, Harmonia Rosales, Nellie Mae Rowe, Betye Saar, Berni Searle, Lorna Simpson, Phyllis Stephens, Mildred Thompson, Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Lina Iris Viktor, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Claudia Widdiss, Amanda Williams, and Billie Zangewa.
Support for Between Here and Infinity: Celebrating 30 Years of the Spelman College Museum is provided by the Mellon Foundation, the Lauren Amos Foundation, the Paul R. Jones Heritage Fund of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, and the Friends of the Museum Fund.
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CONTACT: Brijea Daniel Spelman College [email protected]
