The High Museum of Art ATL has a 2 fem-tastic events lined up this month:
March 11 @ 7 p.m :: Home Sweet Home: A Feminist Look at Nellie Mae Rowe
- Nellie Mae Rowe, Haint in Woods, 1981. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
Assistant Professor of Art History Joyce Dohen from Simmons College, Boston, will be examining Nellie Mae Rowe’s expressions of women’s space & life in context of the 20th century feminist history. At this event you will be able to observe Rowe’s art which consist of images of her home as well as distinctive objects within that define her feminist lifestyle.
Click here for more info on Nellie Mae Rowe
March 13 @ 2 p.m :: Of Shine, Bling & Bixels: Toward a Post-Soul Art History
- Krista Thompson
Krista Thompson, Driskell Prize Winner & Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, presents her investigation of ”post-soul art history” by displaying the leading contemporary artists and black popular photographic practices. She will be giving her view on the new meanings of “post-soul art history” and black politics in contemporary society. She will take us through the changes of art from the Black Power movements of the 1970′s to today’s perspective of “Bling Bling” as today’s youth calls yesterday’s “Mau Mau.”
Click here for more info on Krista Thompson
Both events will be held in the Hill Auditorium.
These programs are free and seating is limited. Seat reservations are required.
Tickets are available through the Woodruff Arts Center Box Office at 404-733-5000.
Tickets to the Museum are sold separately.
For more info visit www.high.org
Very cool! Congrats to those involved
Decided I was going to time travel via 70s music today & now I see this + not being able to go = fail.