Exhibition Tour — Silver Linings with guest curator julia elizabeth neal
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.
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.