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Sun, Nov 10, 2024 2:00pm–3:00pm

Exhibition Tour — Silver Linings with guest curator julia elizabeth neal

Students and community members in special exhibition 'Silver Linings' at the annual Artscapade! in August 2024.
Photo by Mark Gjukich
Sun, Nov 10, 2024
2:00pm–3:00pm
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I

Join guest curator and U-M History of Art professor julia elizabeth neal for a look at “Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection,” a landmark exhibition that celebrates a century of Spelman College’s art collection and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art’s 25th anniversary.

The exhibition highlights 40 works and displays a broad range of mediums, artistic styles, materials, and historical contexts. Experience how artists on view explore the significance of color, materiality, the concept of “place,” and questions of identity, to engage the senses and history. Works by modern masters from Henry Ossawa Tanner to Elizabeth Catlett, and renowned contemporary and emerging artists from Carrie Mae Weems to Firelei Báez, are on view.

Free and open to the public — Registration required.

Silver Linings exhibition preview with julia elizabeth neal, U-M Assistant Professor of Art History; Sound meditation, performance and poetry; Soulful Charcuterie by Chef Nina Love The Love Experience
Photo by Britt Hueter

About julia elizabeth neal

julia elizabeth neal is a scholar of modern and contemporary African American and US art. Her research considers emergent postwar politics of identity and transnationalism to visual, conceptual, and sonic experimentation. In the winter of 2023, neal joined the department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan.