Faith in the World Community: Sue Bailey Thurman and Black Women’s World Reconstruction, 1920-1950

Kayleigh Whitman is a fifth year PhD student at Vanderbilt University.   She studies American Religious History with a special focus on questions of race, religion, and activism.   She is the recipient of the 2020 Nancy and Randall Burkett Fellowship. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, African American women were the vanguard of the international struggle Read More …

The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition: Direct Action and Attica Prison

The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition: Direct Action and Attica Prison Chad Dawkins is a visiting assistant professor of Art History and Curatorial Practices at Spelman College. He was the recipient of the 2022 Benny Andrews Award, which provides funding for researchers exploring the collection of visual artist, teacher, activist, critic, and writer Benny Andrews. In Read More …

Donald Locke Exhibit

  Karen Comer Lowe is currently working as Curator -In-Residence at the Spelman College Museum.  She will be curating a solo exhibition of Donald Locke’s artwork at the Atlanta Contemporary in the Fall of 2024. This will be an independent curatorial project and the second exhibition of Donald Locke’s work that she has curated.  She Read More …